This is from Bob Woodwards, one of the guys who brought down the Nixon Presidency, new book.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/...in612067.shtml
Quote:
But, it turns out, two days before the president told Powell, Cheney and Rumsfeld had already briefed Prince Bandar, the Saudi ambassador.
"Saturday, Jan. 11, with the president's permission, Cheney and Rumsfeld call Bandar to Cheney's West Wing office, and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Gen. Myers, is there with a top-secret map of the war plan. And it says, 'Top secret. No foreign.' No foreign means no foreigners are supposed to see this," says Woodward.
"They describe in detail the war plan for Bandar. And so Bandar, who's skeptical because he knows in the first Gulf War we didn't get Saddam out, so he says to Cheney and Rumsfeld, 'So Saddam this time is gonna be out, period?'" And Cheney who has said nothing says the following: "Prince Bandar, once we start, Saddam is toast."
After Bandar left, according to Woodward, Cheney said, "I wanted him to know that this is for real. We're really doing it."
But this wasn't enough for Prince Bandar, who Woodward says wanted confirmation from the president. "Then, two days later, Bandar is called to meet with the president and the president says, 'Their message is my message'" says Woodward.
Prince Bandar enjoys easy access to the Oval Office. His family and the Bush family are close. And Woodward told 60 Minutes that Bandar has promised the president that Saudi Arabia will lower oil prices in the months before the election -- to ensure the U.S. economy is strong on election day.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4661093/
Bush shared the TOP SECRET plans for war with Iraq with Prince Bandar before he showed some of the most important members of his own cabinet. Including Powell Doesn't that seem ODD to anyone else here?
It's just...
Hell I don't have the strength to express the outrage that america should be feeling over this President.
I'm sorry. I guess it all just means I am a partisan who will find fault with anything Bush does. It's just sharing secret war plans with someone we all know has been funnelling money to terrorists for years. Whatever.
Just move on to the next outrage I guess.