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To: Suma who wrote (13649)	11/10/2004 10:39:26 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

You're probably thinking of Richard Clarke. Though I think Suskind's book with O'Neill also had W pushing for an Iraq war from the very beginning. A review of Clarke's book has this nice little snippet: The most controversial incident in ''Against All Enemies'' deals with the president's eagerness to link the Sept. 11 attacks to Iraq, and comes on the night of Sept. 12. Clarke writes that he saw Bush wandering alone through the Situation Room. The president then stopped and asked Clarke and a few aides to ''go back over everything, everything. See if Saddam did this.'' Clarke said he was ''taken aback, incredulous.'' He told the president, ''Al Qaeda did this.'' ''I know, I know, but . . . see if Saddam was involved. Just look. I want to know any shred. . . .'' After the president left, one of Clarke's aides said, ''Wolfowitz got to him.'' ( from query.nytimes.com )