Bush's case for war

[newbie]

Recently leaked memos of meetings between Bush and Blair show that Bush had decided to go to war in January of 2003, even before Powell made his case for war at the UN.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/27/internat...7memo.html?_r=1

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,,1700881,00.html

[newbie]

A couple for you Monty:

December 1999 In December 1999, "Bush surprises veteran political chroniclers with his blunt pronouncements about Saddam at a six-way New Hampshire primary event: “It was a gaffe-free evening for the rookie front-runner, till he was asked about Saddam’s weapons stash,” a Boston Globe reporter penned. ‘I’d take ‘em out,’ [bush] grinned cavalierly, ‘take out the weapons of mass destruction…I’m surprised he’s still there,” said Bush of the despot who remains in power after losing the Gulf War to Bush Jr.’s father… It remains to be seen if that offhand declaration of war was just Texas talk, a sort of locker room braggadocio, or whether it was Bush’s first big clinker.” (Boston Globe; Also Russ Baker)

January 2001

From the moment he took office, Bush made noises about "finishing the job his father started." (Time Magazine)

George Bush’s former treasury secretary Paul O’Neill asserts that Bush took office in January 2001 fully intending to invade Iraq and desperate to find an excuse for pre-emptive war against Saddam Hussein. “From the very beginning, there was a conviction that Saddam Hussein was a bad person and that he needed to go,” O’Neill said. “For me, the notion of pre-emption, that the US has the unilateral right to do whatever we decide to do, is a really huge leap.” (Sunday Herald)

http://www.rawstory.com/exclusives/muriel/...imeline_613.htm

[KrustyKidd]

Recently leaked memos of meetings between Bush and Blair show that Bush had decided to go to war in January of 2003, even before Powell made his case for war at the UN.

Thank goodness. Some had said that he 'Rushed to war.'