The More You Know

[Scriptor Ignotus]

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/pentagon/paths/bush2.html

some excerpts

At Rumsfeld's suggestion, the president's advisers take a vote on whether Iraq should be attacked straightaway. The vote is 4-0 against -- but there is one abstention, from Rumsfeld. He is now thinking about how to leverage the past eight months the Pentagon has spent on transformation and apply its new thinking on warfare to the new war.

Wolfowitz is not the only one trying to make a strong case against Iraq -- Feith has set up a secret group to analyze or find any connections between Iraq and Al Qaeda. The group reviews over 19,000 documents but turns up no evidence. However, Wolfowitz's friends at the INC are supplying plenty of information on Hussein's hopes for a WMD program.

The INC finds a new weapon in its fight against Hussein: the press. Ahmed Chalabi provides newspapers and magazines with sources who claim to have seen biological weapons labs and terrorist training camps in Iraq. Wolfowitz and the neo-cons use the defectors to further their argument for attacking, and the front-page articles are hard for the administration to ignore. Wolfowitz's advisers in the Pentagon Policy Counterterrorism Evaluation Group are arguing there is little distinction between Iraq and Al Qaeda.

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