AP's Pete Yost has another Woodward biggie -- [View All]

Bush Said Iraq Talks Concerned Afghanistan

By PETE YOST, Associated Press Writer


WASHINGTON - Following an important meeting on Iraq war planning in late 2001, President Bush told the public that the discussion was about Afghanistan. He made no mention afterward about Iraq even though that was the real focus of the session at his ranch.

"I'm right now focused on the military operations in Afghanistan," Bush told reporters after talks on Dec. 28, 2001, with top aides and generals.

A "war update" was the White House description of the news conference Bush held with Gen. Tommy Franks, who was in charge of the Afghan war as head of U.S. Central Command....

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The meeting occurred while U.S. forces were in the heat of searching through the mountainous region of Afghanistan where Osama bin Laden had been hiding near Tora Bora....


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1. Bush lied.

2. So did Osama escape Tora Bora while this Iraq confabbing was going on in Crawford???!!!