NYT: Powell Said to Have Warned Bush Before the War, a New Book Says

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The book also provides new details about the hurriedly arranged airstrike on March 19, 2003, in which the White House jump-started the war with a bomb and missile strike on the Dora Farms compound near Baghdad in a failed attempt to kill Mr. Hussein.

The air raid, advocated by Mr. Tenet, had initially been opposed by General Franks, the book says, but was approved by President Bush and Vice President Cheney after they asked other advisers to leave the Oval Office.

The strike was launched, the book says, on the basis of first-hand reports from Iraqi sources at Dora Farms enlisted by a network of 87 Iraqi spies, designated with the cryptonym DB/ROCKSTARS, who had been recruited by a C.I.A. team that had infiltrated northern Iraq in the months before the war.

In calls by satellite phone to the C.I.A. team, the Iraqi sources reported that Mr. Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay were at the compound, and that Mr. Hussein himself would return there. After the strike, the book says, one Iraqi source reported Mr. Hussein's body had been removed from the wreckage, prompting Mr. Tenet to celebrate what he thought had been a success.

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that have come out telling the same story of Iraq over and over about Bush and Cheney. Must be a reason for it, huh?

The book, "Plan of Attack," by Bob Woodward of The Washington Post, reconstructs that and other private conversations between senior Bush administration officials during the 16-month period of planning and preparation that ended with the attack on Iraq last March.

we have seen through this bunch since they stole the election. If they are going to steal an election, the sky's the limit on other fascist behavior.

I hope "Bush" comes to mean the same as Dr. Mudd, who treated John Wilkes Booth's broken leg.

If you "Bush me" you are lying and cheating. I think I'll use that...starting with stock broker.

Freedom of Speech!

...his massive blunder in lying his ass off to the UN. He made the war possible with the American people with his dramatic deception and lies before the UN.

He is just as cynical and reprehensible as anyone else among that lying cabal of killers.

Just like when he signed false end user certificates to arm terrorists in Iran-contra. He's not a pawn, he's a scheming Machiavellian in civilized camouflage. He just outsmarted himself.

"Mr. Woodward's account quickly provoked speculation in Washington that Mr. Powell might have cooperated with Mr. Woodward as the book was being prepared in an effort to distance himself from the Iraq war.

A spokesman for Mr. Powell said Friday night that he could not determine whether the secretary had spoken with Mr. Woodward.

Mr. Powell has made no secret in the past that he has helped Mr. Woodward with other books. Only Mr. Bush and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld are identified by the author as having given on-the-record interviews for the book. But conversations between Mr. Powell and Mr. Bush are quoted verbatim in the book, and in the account of the January 2003 conversation, Mr. Bush is identified only as a corroborating source."