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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: goldworldnet who wrote (203410)11/16/2001 2:33:49 PM
From: DMaA  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
If this amazing report is true, the Bush/Putin relationship is even closer (and profitable) then it seemed ( the source is DEBKA so I don't totally trust it):

The plan the Russian president put forward to Bush in his Nov. 7 telephone call ran contrary to all the diplomatic and military arrangements set up by Rumsfeld, the U.S. joint chiefs of staff and Secretary of State Colin Powell and his staff. Their blueprint set out a cautious step-by-step campaign that would reach Kabul at the end of the Afghan winter in April.

Putin stood that timeline on its head, cutting out five to six months by going ahead at once. His plan effectively trashed the U.S. position papers prepared for Bush. The Putin plan thus became the vanguard of the anti-Taliban offensive in Afghanistan.

Bush responded with an on-the-spot decision to go with the Russian plan. He did not consult his team. Had he done so, Rumsfeld would have warned him the new proposal would place at risk all the military preparations, deals and understandings the United States had put together over the past weeks. Powell would have warned that letting the Northern Alliance go would amount to ditching Washington's chief war ally, Pakistan, foregoing the need for U.S. bases in that country and damaging the special relationship with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, who was then in the United States.

worldnetdaily.com
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