Reply #34: ‘I’ve Not Made Up My Mind’

[TacticalPeek]

(admittedly this assumes a mind not in evidence)


Spanish Notes Reveal Bush Was Hell-Bent On War, Despite Claiming ‘I’ve Not Made Up My Mind’

Today, the Spanish newspaper El Pais published a transcript of a discussion between President Bush and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar in February 2003 in which Bush told Aznar that the U.S. would go to war with Iraq to disarm Saddam Hussein with or without a UN resolution:

“We must take him right now. We have shown an incredible degree of patience until now. There are two weeks left. In two weeks we will be militarily ready.”

Though Aznar asked Bush to “have a little patience” and urged, “It is very important to have a resolution,” Bush pushed for war throughout the meeting, telling the Spanish Prime Minister, “We will be in Baghdad by the end of March.”

Just a few days later, Bush insisted to the American public that war with Iraq was not a certainty:

BUSH: “I’ve not made up our mind about military action. Hopefully, this can be done peacefully.” <3/6/03>

BUSH: “We are doing everything we can to avoid war in Iraq. But if Saddam Hussein does not disarm peacefully, he will be disarmed by force.” <3/8/03>

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/26/bush-aznar-talk/


There are numerous other items that establish this lie, including the WH meeting in March 2002, undenied, when Bush told Senators etc. "Fuck Saddam. We're taking him out.", and his first NSC meeting that Paul O'Neil documents, and his orders to move key assets out of Afghanistan in spring 2002 to prepare for Iraq, and the little-noted Operation Badger, etc etc etc.

Now, that's a damn lie.