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To: Alighieri who wrote (186997)	4/24/2004 2:36:17 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574261

For some reason, Bandar wants to fuzz this up," said Woodward, whose book "Plan of Attack" tells of a meeting in early January 2003 in which Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld briefed Bandar on war plans. He said Bandar woke him up with a late phone call Thursday night and ended up acknowledging that Woodward's description of the meeting was accurate. Bandar, the Saudi ambassador to the United States, has said Woodward was correct when he said he attended a meeting at the White House on a Saturday -- two days before Powell was told of the decision to go to war. But Bandar said this week on CNN's "Larry King Live" that Woodward missed an element. "Both Vice President Cheney and Secretary Rumsfeld told me before the briefing that the president has not made a decision yet, but here is the plan," Bandar said. Like that makes it okay...........it was fine to show the plan to a foreigner because the president hadn't made his decision yet......meaning Karl Rove hadn't decided. "Not true," Woodward told CNN's Wolf Blitzer. "In this meeting you have the secretary of defense saying -- according to the secretary of defense's own words -- 'you can take this to the bank; this is going to happen.' And I interviewed the president, and we spent a long time going over that meeting and the meeting with Colin Powell. Its a good thing Woodward has a lot of credibility. With these people, God would have a hard time defending himself. ted