Gen.Tommy Franks: I gave Bush Iraq invasion plan after 9/11. There are a couple of things in this. One is the fact that he drew up plans to invade Iraq in--well the article states a few months after 9/11--so lets say by January 2002 but the decision wasn't made until March 17, 2003. That is completely unbelievable. Evidence of that comes later in the article when it states that Franks was surprised no weapons were used and expected them to be used. If you remember before they war he had to give up all his supposed weapons or the regime would fall. Saddam or us were never told exactly what that would entail. Just like the current change from WMD to weapons programs. So if you believe he had WMD and he was not going to give them up and the inspectors were not going to find them then he must be hiding them. Remember this, "If the inspectors don't find anything that is evidence that he is not cooperating. If he was cooperating the inspectors would be finding the weapons that he's hiding."? So in my opinion, I agree with Ted Kennedy, that it was probably decided on his August vacation in 2002.
- posted by Mom/Dad @ 7:16 AM