Franks gave Graham "precise strategy" for terror war, did NOT include Iraq

[DeepModem Mom]

Senator: Commander Told of Military Drain

By WILLIAM C. MANN, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - A former Senate Intelligence Committee chairman asserted Sunday that the general who ran the war in Afghanistan said more than a year before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq that his resources were being shifted in preparation for taking on Saddam Hussein....

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(Senator Bob) Graham said on NBC's "Meet the Press" that his meeting with Franks was (in February, 2002) at the general's headquarters,Central Command in Tampa, Fla.

"He laid out a very precise strategy for fighting the war on terror," Graham said.

"First, we should win the war in Afghanistan. Second, move to Somalia, which as he described was almost anarchy but with a substantial number of al-Qaida cells; then to Yemen. And that we should be very careful about Iraq, because our intelligence was so weak that we didn't know what we were getting into," Graham said....

(According to the article, none of this was discussed in General Franks's recently published memoir, "American Soldier.")

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=512&e=8&u=/ap/graham_franks

[bo44]

1. Of course Franks would not publish the charges himself. He is nothing more

than an expendable tool to the Wiseguy Right. He knows it and wants to work and live peacefully.

[nuxvomica]

2. Franks would be foolish to deny this

Because we know that Graham must have copious notes. Wasn't his obsessive journaling one of the criticisms about him during his presidential run? :-)