Plan Of Attack

[theknife]

Plan Of Attack by Bob Woodward is the latest in a series of exposes that document the administration's obsession with Iraq.

The account and excerpts from the book, published in an early version of the Post's Sunday edition, support testimony by former White House counter-terrorism adviser Richard Clarke that the Bush administration was focused more on Iraq than the al- Qaeda terrorists blamed for the attacks. In a book by Ron Suskind published earlier this year, former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill said the president began planning to oust Hussein within weeks of taking office in January 2001.

``What it amounts to is what the intelligence people would call multiple-source confirmation that the Bush presidency arrived in office with an agenda,'' said Leon Fuerth, national security adviser to former Vice President Al Gore. ``They used Sept. 11 as a way to realize that agenda.''

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be kind of interesting to see how the administration responds to this....the usual smear stuff a la Paul O'Neill and Richard Clarke isn't gonna quite cut it this time on Bob Woodward. they loved his book Bush At War and gave Woodward unparalleled access to write it, so it's gonna be a lot harder to paint Woodward with the "disgruntled insider/agenda-mongering lefty" brush.