did you know Smirk signed the war order in Feb. of '02 ?

[donsu]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1154473,00.html

George Bush set the US on the path to war in Iraq with a formal order signed in February 2002, more than a year before the invasion, according to a book published yesterday.

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"On February 16 2002, Bush signed a secret national security council directive establishing the goals and objectives for going to war with Iraq, according to classified documents I obtained," Mr Scarborough wrote, in an account of the "global war on terrorism" as seen from the office of Donald Rumsfeld, the defence secretary.

The next month, he writes, the head of central command, General Tommy Franks, conducted a "major Iraq war exercise code-named "Prominent Hammer", and in April he briefed the joint chiefs of staff on the invasion plan.

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The national security council refused to comment on the book's claims about the February directive. "I don't do book reviews," a White House official said.
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Rumsfeld's War is by Rowan Scarborough, the Pentagon correspondent for the conservative Washington Times newspaper, which is known for its contacts in the defence department's civilian leadership.

[RedSock]

1. where on the timeline is this

with his "haven't made my mind up" comments?

[RobertSeattle]

2. Just more Bush Frauds

Reminds of the total crap of "There are no plans on the President's desk to invade Iraq".

(So the plan might be on the side table, just not on his desk...)

[Karenina]

4. GOOD QUESTION?

Anyone able to pinpoint?

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

3. Yes. While we tear apart IWR votes on our own side,

the war was inevitable. No matter how we were going to war but let's tar and feather Democrats when the responsibility lies solely with the MADMEN at 1600.

[wuushew]

5. Its not irrelevant, abuse of the War Powers Act = impeachment

I don't care what the makeup of Congress was the impeachment process would have started and at the very least his "re"election in 2004 would have been doomed.

[maggrwaggr]

7. so ..... that makes it okay they voted for the IWR?

I don't follow your logic.

If I was living in Nazi Germany and I tried to stop the Holocaust, well, it wouldn't matter because "it was going to happen anyway".

So if I VOTED FOR the Holocaust, it also doesn't matter?

Listen, the people I want to support are the ones who FIGHT for what I believe in. Even if they lose, I want them to FIGHTI.

Got that?

[Stephanie]

6. Prominent Hammer?

These people should be impeached for their phallus-worship alone.

They are so unevolved. Do they ever THINK about what they're saying?