Reply #15: Thank her for mentioning PNAC and the neo-cons and their Iraq agenda.

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Helen Thomas: "...he wanted to go into Iraq. He had all the neo-conservatives advising him at the top of their agenda for Project for the New American Century: First Iraq, then Iraq (shakes her head no, correcting herself) then Syria, then Iran and so forth..."

"...you couldn't sit in that pressroom day after day... everytime it was mentioned by Ari Fleischer or Scott, they would say in one breath 9-11, Saddam Hussein. 9-11 Saddam Hussein. I don't... I don't blame the American people for thinking there was a tie..."

Wolfie: "So you don't accept his answer today? You think what? He was still spinning? Is that what you're saying?"

Helen: "It wasn't that. I think maybe in his own mind he didn't but I think that everybody who knows... everybody who is in the know, knows that Iraq was on target... it was on the radar screen from the moment he came into office. Treasury Secretary says it. People in CIA say it, and so forth. Nothing would deter him. It was a very big goal"

FROM THE MOMENT HE TOOK OFFICE...

Everybody knows it Bush. You're only fooling yourself.