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Wednesday, January 07, 2004
Bush's mind: empty, closed, or
both? Check this
out from Elisabeth Bumiller's profile of national-security adviser
Condoleezza Rice in today's New York Times:
Richard Haass, the former
director of policy planning at the State Department who is now the
president of the Council on Foreign Relations, recalls going to
see Ms. Rice in July 2002, well before the president began making
a public case for ousting Mr. Hussein, to discuss with Ms. Rice
"the pros and cons" of making Iraq a priority.
"Basically she cut me off and
said, 'Save your breath - the president has already decided
what he's going to do on this,'" Mr. Haass said.
Not that you can blame Bush. After
all, there were all of those dangerous aluminum
tubes and stores of
Niger
yellowcake to be gotten rid
of.
And as Bush recently
explained
to Diane Sawyer when she pointed out that the White House had
actually accused Saddam Hussein of having weapons of mass
destruction, "as opposed to the possibility that he could move to
acquire those weapons":
"So what's the
difference?"
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Dan Kennedy is senior writer and media critic for the Boston Phoenix.
