Reply #11: That was the plan with Iraq….provoke…

[peterh]

Woodward claims that Bush pulled Rumsfeld aside Nov. 21, 2001 - when U.S.
forces and allies were in control of about half of Afghanistan - and asked him
what kind of war plan he had on Iraq.
Senior White House officials told CNN that Bush asked Rumsfeld if Iraq would
provoke a confrontation with the U.S. - perhaps by trying to shoot down a pilot
over the no-fly zone - while the U.S. was at war in Afghanistan. Rumsfeld said
it was possible, according to the officials.
Rumsfeld said that contingency plans concerning Iraq, left over from the
Clinton administration, were outdated, and Bush told him to come up with a new
one, the officials told CNN.