AP's Pete Yost has another Woodward biggie --

[DeepModem Mom]

Bush Said Iraq Talks Concerned Afghanistan

By PETE YOST, Associated Press Writer


WASHINGTON - Following an important meeting on Iraq war planning in late 2001, President Bush told the public that the discussion was about Afghanistan. He made no mention afterward about Iraq even though that was the real focus of the session at his ranch.

"I'm right now focused on the military operations in Afghanistan," Bush told reporters after talks on Dec. 28, 2001, with top aides and generals.

A "war update" was the White House description of the news conference Bush held with Gen. Tommy Franks, who was in charge of the Afghan war as head of U.S. Central Command....

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The meeting occurred while U.S. forces were in the heat of searching through the mountainous region of Afghanistan where Osama bin Laden had been hiding near Tora Bora....


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040417/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_iraq&cid=544&ncid=1480


1. Bush lied.

2. So did Osama escape Tora Bora while this Iraq confabbing was going on in Crawford???!!!

[aquart]

1. So the question is.......

What's up with Woodward?

Has he stopped being a Bush sycophant? Did he read his notes and realize they contradicted themselves? Did he suddenly feel used and want revenge?

Or, perhaps, he couldn't resist the warm fuzzy of bringing down TWO US presidents. And doing THIS one without Bernstein.

Think Redford will play him again?

[Malva Zebrina]

3. Maybe he really works for the CIA and they are pissed at Bush

for outing one of their undercover agents--Valerie Plame.

[DeepModem Mom]

4. Since the book is not kind to Tenet, your conjecture...

might mean that careerists at the CIA are not fond of him. I'm fascinated by the riddle of Tenet --

[9215]

8. He did manage to ingratiate himself to Bush, hee

maybe he played the sychophant to go for a bigger prize?

[jbfam4]

2. thanks for posting

Very interesting.......I like this part:

Bush replied: "I hope 2002 is a year of peace, but I'm also realistic. And I know full well that bin Laden and his cronies would like to harm America again; bin Laden and his cronies would like to harm our allies. How do I know that? I receive intelligence reports on a daily basis that indicates that that's his desires."

Kerry should use these words in an ad.....he knew it, but did nothing.

[DeepModem Mom]

5. kicking

[scarletwoman]

6. I don't trust Woodward.

I just don't. Imho, he's a bushco operative, and he's burning a psyops backfire with this book.

All the excerpts I've heard and seen transcribed so far where he quotes bush*, he's "quoting" bush* using all these big words and evincing complex thought processes. I don't believe it for a minute.

Yes, Woodward's book "reveals" many lies -- but the lies were coming out anyway. Watch, the tactic here is to nudge public opinion around to where they'll start to accept all this lying as a justifiable strategy on the part of this noble and thoughtful president who was simply doing what he had to do in order to realize his divinely-inspired vision of the world as it could be.

sw

[drfemoe]

10. That and

they haven't tried to lynch him like they have the other truth-tellers. THAT is very suspicious.

[RummyTheDummy]

12. Have you read the book?

Perhaps you should before casting stones.

[grasswire]

7. look at this

"The books says Franks presented a list of assumptions that were behind the plan. They included that Iraq would be the main effort of the United States and would get priority on resources, and that the Afghan operation and the global fight against terrorism would provide a noise level under which Iraq operations could proceed. But these efforts would not diminish the Afghan or terrorism efforts. "

Impeach. Now.

[Viking12]

9. Sounds like the Senior Senator from Massachusetts was right

as we all already knew

[DeepModem Mom]

11. kicking for a.m.

[bobthedrummer]

13. Did OBL escape? Well, he could have. Ever read "The Getaway"

by Seymour Hersh? It details how Al Qaeda and Taliban forces were airlifted out of Afghanistan to Kashmir in an operation designed to protect ISI (Pakistan mililitary intelligence) agents-FUBAR imo.

The Getaway by Seymour Hersh
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/HER206A.html

Btw, here is an article about the ISI and 9/11.
The Role of Pakistan's Military Intelligence (ISI) in the September 11 Attacks by Michel Chossudovsky
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO111A.html

[DeepModem Mom]

14. Wes Clark talked often about Tora Bora...

from a military point of view, and indicated we botched an opportunity to get Bin Laden there.

[bobthedrummer]

15. Wes Clark knew a lot of the Vulcans from his career in the military.

He would make a good VP.