ABCNEWS.com : Report: Bush Planned Iraqi Invasion Pre-Sept. 11
“From the very beginning, there was a conviction that Saddam Hussein was a bad person and that he needed to go,” O’Neill said in the “60 Minutes” interview scheduled to air on Sunday. “For me, the notion of pre-emption, that the U.S. has the unilateral right to do whatever we decide to do, is a really huge leap.”
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O’Neill was also quoted in the book as saying the president was determined to find a reason to go to war and he was surprised nobody on the National Security Council questioned why Iraq should be invaded.“It was all about finding a way to do it. That was the tone of it,” said O’Neill. “The president saying ‘Go find me a way to do this.”‘
King George sounds a lot like King Henry II, though I’m reluctant to cast Saddam Hussein as a martyr.
Don’t expect the press to make anything of this: misusing the military of the world’s remaining superpower to pursue a family feud isn’t going to get any coverage.
[metafilter.com]
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