Bob Woodward, in his book, disagrees with George Tenet..

[kentuck]

http://www.atrios.blogspot.com/

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From Woodward's book, page 39.


"Until September 11, however, Bush had not put that thinking into practice, nor had he pressed the issue of bin Laden. Though Rice and others were developing a plan to eliminate al Qaeda, no formal recommendations had ever been presented to the president.

"I know there was a plan in the works. . . . I don't know how mature the plan was," Bush recalled. . . .He acknowledged that bin Laden was not his focus or that of his national security team. There was a significant difference in my attitude after September 11. I was not on point , but I knew he was a menace, and I knew he was a problem."

[xchrom]

1. woodward and his presentaion of bush

is how i like to think of him at this point and time.
just nothing to woodwards work and all he was looking for was a prom dress.

[Sparkly]

2. Bob Kerrey just said

he saw the plan this morning, and the Bushies are lucky it's classified. He said it's thin and weak. From his description, I gather it wasn't much of a plan to "eliminate/not roll back."

[ProfessorGAC]

3. And. . . IT DIDN'T WORK!

All that rationalizing yesterday was essentially a tacit admission of failure. "Oh, we were working on a plan from day one. . ." blah, blah, blah. And the result: 3,000 dead americans. So, whatever plan they were working on was a miserable failure.
The Professor

[Sparkly]

4. Right , well supposedly

they say they worked on it for nearly nine months and were just about to implement it only days before September 11th. But apparently, there was nothing TO this "eliminate, not rollback" plan at ALL anyway!!!

Maybe they should have kept the Clinton administration's "rollback" plan in place?!

[kentuck]

6. when they did away with Clinton's plan, they had no plan at all ?

Isn't that a fact?

[ProfessorGAC]

7. I Hope You Don't Believe That!

They really were developing a response plan, not a preventative action plan. They couldn't have used what they were working on until after an attack occurred.
The Professor

[k in IA]

5. I missed that part - I saw him yelling at Tenet (I think it is Kerrey's

standard voice level)but my kids don't always cooperate with what I am trying to watch or here.

More details, please.

(never mind - you already answered that faster than I typed in my questions)

[keithyboy]

8. All we need to ask ourselves is if the world is better off with what this

administration HAS DONE?

I guess the only acceptable plan is to bomb and kill as many Afghanis, Muslims, Iraqis, Arabs as we can.