Bush shared secret war plans with a foreign agent/country

[opihimoimoi]

that is not helping with the war effort. Read in GD Eileen from OH thread.

Sickening.

[smirkymonkey]

1. Isn't that high treason??

[G_j]

8. I believe that is correct n/t

[kera]

2. link ? please

[MI Cherie]

3. Is this it?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1435135

[opihimoimoi]

4. Yup, thats it, spread it far and wide

Sleeping with the Enemy has taken a new meaning.

[eileen from OH]

5. Woodward talked about it on 60 minutes

And here's the pertinent cutting as described on the CNN website. (Sorry. Yeah, yeah, one of these days I'll learn to link properly. Will post the link separately.) Also, there was more, though it's not on this site. Bandahr had to hear it from Bush's lips, so they arranged a meeting with just the two of them. PLUS, Bandahr left the first meeting and immediately went back and tried to recreate the map from memory. Keep in mind too, that this was BEFORE Bush even told Powell that it was war.



eileen from OH

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Shortly after the meeting with Rice, Bush told Rumsfeld, "Look, we're going to have to do this, I'm afraid," according to the book.

Subsequently, on January 11, Rumsfeld, Cheney and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Richard Myers met in Cheney's office with Prince Bandar, the Saudi ambassador to the United States.

At that meeting, Myers showed Prince Bandar a map labeled "top secret noforn," meaning that it was not to be seen by any foreign national, Woodward told CBS.

The map outlined the U.S. battle plan for Iraq, which was to begin with an air attack, followed by land invasions moving north from Kuwait and south from Turkey, according to the book.

Myers said Sunday on CNN's "Late Edition" that though he had not read Woodward's book, he was familiar with the account of the meeting, and it was "basically correct."

"At that time, we were looking for support of our allies and partners in the region. Saudi Arabia's been a strategic partner in the region over a very long time," he said.

"Part of the way we do that is to ask them and show them how and why we need their support in certain areas.

"I felt comfortable, at the time, doing what we were doing with the Saudi ambassador."

According to Woodward's account of that meeting, Bandar pressed Cheney, Rumsfeld and Myers for assurances that Saddam would be ousted in this war, unlike in the Persian Gulf War in 1991.

Cheney is quoted as telling Bandar, "Once we start, Saddam is toast" -- a remark that disquieted even the outspoken Rumsfeld, Woodward writes.

[eileen from OH]

6. http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/18/woodward.book/index.html

eileen from OH

[Seldona]

7. Not only that,

but they are conspiring to control gas prices to effect the election.

If nothing is done about this revelation, I just might give up on the whole thing.

If this is what the American public is willing to put up with to keep this criminal, I am beginning to feel let them have him.

I am getting the hell out of here.

I suppose I will mellow out a bit tomorrow, but this is so just so awfuly sickening, and I have this feeling that NOTHING will come of it.

Nothing at all.

[Stuckinthebush]

9. It will take the media's constant devotion to this issue

They may be in a mindset to do it now. They smell blood and are getting more gutsy as they see Bush's numbers drop.

Without the media, this goes nowhere.

[donhakman]

10. Clear channel calls Woodward petty

They have decided not to deny anything but simply say low oil prices in Nov. will be great etc.

The Woodward revelations should be as eye opening to the country who has been terrorized enough by this administration as when Edward R Murrow took on McCarthy.