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Yes, that is one of his fave talking points -- how his entire presidency changed because of Sept 11. Yeah yeah -- we were going in one direction, and he was FORCED to turn it in another. He NEVER would have liked the Patriot Act, and he NEVER had plans to go to war.
However, this statement is quite inconsistant with Reason for War with Iraq #313: "Tired of swatting flies, His Chimperial Highness had a long term plan to deal decisively with the problem of global terrorism." Given that Perle and Wolfowitz were the guys that he had advising him on foreign policy since he accepted his destiny to be president in 1998, kinda sounds like he was already planning to carry out the PNAC program. There is also evidence from Cabinet officials that he was already planning war with Iraq in Jan 2001.
The only thing Sept 11 changed was the excuse that His Chimperial Majesty would use to carry out his oil spoil wars.
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