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Sunday, January 11, 2004
Everyone's all upin arms about Paul O'Neill's revelation that Bush wanted to take out Iraq as early as early 2001. Except it's not a revelation, just a restatement of what we already know from David Frum's book, as pointed out by Mickey Kaus. He quotes Frum's recounting of a February, 2001 meeting thusly:I certainly was not cool, but I manged to scratch some notes to keep my memory fresh. As I reread them now, I am startled at how much of what would happen over the next year is prefigured there: Bush's optimisim about Russia and Vladimir Putin, his wariness of China, his focus on the danger presented by Iran, his determination to dig Saddam Hussein out of power in Iraq, ....
Steven I. Weiss 1:19:00 AM
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