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To: tejek who wrote (2799)	2/19/2004 12:17:00 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 7936

Early planning prior to 9/11 has a lot to do with the morality/honesty of this administration. Bush and company has gone on and on about how this war was prompted by 9/11 and his war on terrorism. Now we find out that the administration was plotting regime change in Iraq prior to 9/11 The administration was planning regime change just as the Clinton administration had a policy of regime change, but without 9/11 there wouldn't of been a decision by Bush to cause regime change by a massive invasion. Richard Perle, Douglas Feith and David Wurmser are the president of the United states or even cabinet level officials in this administration. Perle, Wolfowitz and Rumsfeld may have written Clinton urging upon him a strategy that "should aim, above all, at the removal of Saddam Hussein, but that amounts to supporting the stated position of the Clinton administration and doesn't amount to calling on Clinton to invade Iraq. In any case they aren't Bush and the letter they wrote to Clinton in 1998 isn't evidence of a desire by Bush to invade Iraq pre 9/11. On Jan. 1, 2001, nine months before 9-11, Wurmser called for U.S.-Israeli attacks "to broaden the (Middle East) conflict to strike fatally ... the regimes of Damascus, Baghdad, Tripoli, Teheran and Gaza ... to establish the recognition that fighting with either the United States or Israel is suicidal." Honestly what Wurmser wrong on 1/1/2001 is really irrelevant. If you find something by Bush saying the same thing then you might have a point. Even if Bush planned to invade Iraq before 9/11 (and the evidence you have provided that this is true is so flimsy as to be almost non-existent) it wouldn't change the morality of the war itself it would only mean that Bush's statements implying that 9/11 was a partial reason for the invasion where of dubious honesty. Tim