Freedom of Information request: Bush focused on war with Iraq soon as he took office

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http://www.khaleejtimes.ae/DisplayArticle08.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2010/September/middleeast_September483.xml§ion=middleeast

(AFP)

23 September 2010, WASHINGTON — Former president George W. Bush’s advisers focused on toppling Saddam Hussein’s regime as soon as he took office and discussed how to justify a war in Iraq shortly after invading Afghanistan in 2001, official documents showed on Wednesday.

A few hours after the September 11 attacks in 2001, then defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld spoke of attacking Iraq as well as Osama bin Laden, according to notes of a meeting on that day, newly declassified papers show.

Rumsfeld told a Pentagon lawyer to go to his deputy to get “support” showing a supposed link between the Iraqi regime and Al-Qaeda’s founder, according to the papers posted by the Washington-based National Security Archive, an independent research institute.

The US government has since acknowledged that Saddam’s regime had no role in the 9/11 attacks.

[Warren Stupidity]

1. Nine months later: the enabling event.

what a coinkydink.

[HereSince1628]

2. The neocons were looking for a fight before Clinton was out of office

It's interesting that this story is about stuff that is already known and done largely out in the open. Was the FOIA hoping to catch a clue linked to
the bigger game?

War was Cheney's solution to every problem. What many of us want to know is what went on surrounding those early Cheney Oil Summits.

I personally wonder how important they were to the Cheney Administration's decision making regarding the protection of global energy markets during a regional war in southwestern Asia.

[democrat_patriot]

3. Imagine if McCain was president.

We'd be at war with Iran.

[zipplewrath]

4. I wonder

I know what you mean, but the military was REALLY not fond of that plan, at the very least not before Iraq and Afghanistan was "finished".