memory hole: WaPo on Bush&Iraq - No Woodward or Tenet

[robbedvoter]

> http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A43909-2003Jan11?language=printer
>
> U.S. Decision On Iraq Has Puzzling Past
> Opponents of War Wonder When, How Policy Was Set
>
> By Glenn Kessler
> Washington Post Staff Writer
> Sunday, January 12, 2003; Page A01
>
> On Sept. 17, 2001, six days after the attacks on the World Trade Center
> and the
> Pentagon, President Bush signed a 2?-page document marked "TOP SECRET"
> that outlined
> the plan for going to war in Afghanistan as part of a global campaign
> against terrorism.

[robbedvoter]

1. *Bush Started Iraq Invasion Planning at First NSC Meeting*

*Bush Started Iraq Invasion Planning at First NSC Meeting*

Bush campaigned on a "humble" foreign policy. But at his very first
National Security Council meeting, he ordered the Pentagon to begin
planning an invasion of Iraq, according to Mark Matthews of the
Baltimore Sun. The younger Bush entered office "determined to do
something about the Saddam problem," a White House official agrees.
"Those around the table, including the president , were clearly
regime-change supporters," said another official at the meeting, who
declined to be identified. "
http://www.sunspot.net/news/nationworld/bal-te.decision16mar16,0,2919520.story

[robbedvoter]

2. BFEE/Woodward revenge for this maybe?

WP: Tenet Says He Didn't Know About Claim




WP: Tenet Says He Didn't Know About Claim
By Walter Pincus
Thursday, July 17, 2003; Page A01
CIA Director George J. Tenet told the Senate intelligence committee
yesterday that his staff did not bring to his attention a questionable
statement about Iraq seeking uranium in Africa before President Bush
delivered his State of the Union address.
But Tenet told the senators during a nearly five-hour session behind
closed doors that he takes responsibility for the now-famous 16-word
sentence because an agency official had approved it after negotiations
with the White House, according to congressional and administration
sources who attended the session.
"Members were stunned," one Democratic senator in the meeting said,
"because he said he basically wasn't aware of the sentence until
recently."
(snip)
Yesterday, the Democratic senator said Tenet was repeatedly asked why
the CIA permitted the allegation in the address, especially since Tenet
had interceded with the White House to remove a more detailed reference
to the claim from a Bush speech on Oct. 7.
"There was mixed reactions to his answers as to why they compromised
after he told us how dubious and incredible the intelligence was," said
the senator, who insisted on anonymity.
more…
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2936-2003Jul16.html?nav=hptop_tb