Bushbot talking point debunked - Iraq was discussed 9-15 Camp David Meet

[RamboLiberal]

Clarke wasn't there but Paul O' Neill was: From "The Price of Loyalty" Page 187-188

After Tenet and General Shelton did discuss attacking Afghanistan.

At the ready was Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, who turned the focus to Iraq. Afghanistan could develop into a mess with U.S. troops mired in the country's remote mountains, seeking elusive al Qaeda cells. Iraq, on the other hand, was a corrupt, anti-American regime waiting to be toppled. Through intelligence coming from inside Iraq continued to be thin, the Defense and State Depts, responding to the President's intense interest in Saddam Hussein, had produced dozens of reports since January on what might be done to oust Saddam and the Baathist regime. Wolfowitz seemed to dance across that pile of speculative analysis, touching the high points. The thrust: if you want to do something, Mr. President, Iraq is doable.

"I thought what Wolfowitz was asserting about Iraq was a reach, and I think others in the room did, too. It was like changing the subject-Iraq was not where bin Laden is and not where there's trouble. I was mystified. It's like a bookbinder accidentally dropping a chapter from one book into the middle of another one. The chapter is choherent, in its way, but it doesn't seem to fit in this book."

Andy Card finally headed Wolfowitz off, saying that there didn't seem much new in these arguments. They broke for lunch.

[keithyboy]

1. My, my, the pieces of the puzzle are coming together nicely.

This should be pieced together by WillPitt...we need a master to put the BIG picture on display. I am sure there are other bits and pieces out there that will serve mutual corroboration. This list of Bush admin. resignations and the reasons stated for many of them had to do with Bush's insistence on invading Iraq. What a masterpiece is taking shape on the canvass of deceit!

[soup]

2. Wolfowitz at Camp David Sept. 13, 2001

Wolfowitz Admits Iraq War Planned Two Days After 9-11
August 2003 issue

>snip<
On September 13, 2001, during a meeting at Camp David with President Bush, Rumsfeld, and others in the Bush administration, Wolfowitz said he discussed with President Bush the prospects of launching an attack against Iraq, for no apparent reason other than a "gut feeling" Saddam Hussein was involved in the attacks, and there was a debate "about what place if any Iraq should have in a counter-terrorist strategy."

"On the surface of the debate it at least appeared to be about not whether but when," Wolfowitz said during the May 9 Interview with Vanity Fair's Sam Tannenhaus, a transcript of which is posted on the Department of Defense website and is archived on Scoop. "There seemed to be a kind of agreement that, yes it should be, but the disagreement was whether it should be in the immediate response or whether you should concentrate simply on Afghanistan first."
http://www.utne.com/web_special/web_specials_2003-08/articles/10739-1.html