NEW YORK (Jan. 10) - Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill charges in a new
book that President George W. Bush entered office in January 2001 intent on
invading Iraq and was in search of a way to go about it.

O'Neill, fired in December 2002 as part of a shake-up of Bush's economic team,
has become the first major insider of the Bush administration to launch an
attack on the president.

He likened Bush at Cabinet meetings to "a blind man in a room full of deaf
people," according to excerpts from a CBS interview to promote a book by former
Wall Street Journal reporter Ron Suskind, "The Price of Loyalty."

To go to war, Bush used the argument that Iraq possessed weapons of mass
destruction and had to be stopped in the post-Sept. 11, 2001, world. The
weapons have never been found.

"From the very beginning, there was a conviction that Saddam Hussein was a bad
person and that he needed to go," O'Neill said in the "60 Minutes" interview
scheduled to air on Sunday. "For me, the notion of pre-emption, that the U.S.
has the unilateral right to do whatever we decide to do, is a really huge
leap."

CBS released excerpts from the interview on Friday and Saturday.

The former treasury secretary and other White House insiders gave Suskind
documents that in the first three months of 2001 revealed the Bush
administration was examining military options for removing Saddam Hussein, CBS
said.

"There are memos," Suskind told CBS. "One of them marked 'secret' says 'Plan
for Post-Saddam Iraq.'"

Another Pentagon document entitled "Foreign suitors for Iraqi Oil Field
Contracts" talks about contractors from 40 countries and which ones have
interest in Iraq, Suskind said.

BENT ON WAR

O'Neill was also quoted in the book as saying the president was determined to
find a reason to go to war and he was surprised nobody on the National Security
Council questioned why Iraq should be invaded.

"It was all about finding a way to do it. That was the tone of it," said
O'Neill. "The president saying 'Go find me a way to do this.'"

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NEW YORK (Jan. 10) - Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill charges in a
new
book that President George W. Bush entered office in January 2001 intent
on
invading Iraq and was in search of a way to go about it.

O'Neill, fired in December 2002 as part of a shake-up of Bush's economic
team,
has become the first major insider of the Bush administration to launch an
attack on the president.

He likened Bush at Cabinet meetings to "a blind man in a room full of deaf
people," according to excerpts from a CBS interview to promote a book by
former
Wall Street Journal reporter Ron Suskind, "The Price of Loyalty."

To go to war, Bush used the argument that Iraq possessed weapons of mass
destruction and had to be stopped in the post-Sept. 11, 2001, world. The
weapons have never been found.

"From the very beginning, there was a conviction that Saddam Hussein was a
bad
person and that he needed to go," O'Neill said in the "60 Minutes"
interview
scheduled to air on Sunday. "For me, the notion of pre-emption, that the
U.S.
has the unilateral right to do whatever we decide to do, is a really huge
leap."

CBS released excerpts from the interview on Friday and Saturday.

The former treasury secretary and other White House insiders gave Suskind
documents that in the first three months of 2001 revealed the Bush
administration was examining military options for removing Saddam Hussein,
CBS
said.

"There are memos," Suskind told CBS. "One of them marked 'secret' says
'Plan
for Post-Saddam Iraq.'"

Another Pentagon document entitled "Foreign suitors for Iraqi Oil Field
Contracts" talks about contractors from 40 countries and which ones have
interest in Iraq, Suskind said.

BENT ON WAR

O'Neill was also quoted in the book as saying the president was determined
to
find a reason to go to war and he was surprised nobody on the National
Security
Council questioned why Iraq should be invaded.

"It was all about finding a way to do it. That was the tone of it," said
O'Neill. "The president saying 'Go find me a way to do this.'"

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From: "ansermetniac"

Don't like Bush? Move to Iraq?

What a poignant response. How germane. How insightful. I can do no less
than
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Your friend forever

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