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To: sea_urchin who wrote (20574)	4/4/2004 2:48:13 PM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 80933

> not only was there no preparation made or alert given for the attack, even though they knew it was coming .....(2) And even nine days later W expressed no interest in finding Al Qaeda. guardian.co.uk >>>President George Bush first asked Tony Blair to support the removal of Saddam Hussein from power at a private White House dinner nine days after the terror attacks of 11 September, 2001. According to Sir Christopher Meyer, the former British Ambassador to Washington, who was at the dinner when Blair became the first foreign leader to visit America after 11 September, Blair told Bush he should not get distracted from the war on terror's initial goal - dealing with the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. Bush, claims Meyer, replied by saying: 'I agree with you, Tony. We must deal with this first. But when we have dealt with Afghanistan, we must come back to Iraq.' Regime change was already US policy.<<< And indeed, 9-11 could have been no surprise for there was no evidence that W was upset by it. In fact, Blair had to remind him what the priorities were supposed to be.