Terror expert: Rumsfeld urged Iraq bombing over 9/11

I'm going to beat a few more dead horses here. It seems Richard A. Clarke, former White House Counter-Terrorism coordinator reveals Donald Rumsfeld planned an attack on Iraq immediately after 9/11. What's the most interesting exchange between clarke and Rummy?

'Rumsfeld was saying we needed to bomb Iraq,' Clarke said. 'We all said, 'But no, no, al-Qaida is in Afghanistan.'

Rumsfeld complained in the meeting that "there aren't any good targets in Afghanistan and there are lots of good targets in Iraq."


i have to wonder if our soldiers get to die anywhere else because the targets look good. He continues:

"I think they wanted to believe that there was a connection" between Iraq and the al-Qaida attacks in the United States, Clarke said in an interview segment that CBS broadcast Friday evening. "There's just no connection. There's absolutely no evidence that Iraq was supporting al-Qaida."

Clarke will be on 60 Minutes this Sunday.

OH, on a side note, look at this little nugget of strategery from Bush:

"One of the things I wasn't going to allow to happen is, that we weren't going to let their previous experience in this theater dictate a rational course for a new war," Bush told Woodward for his 2002 book, "Bush at War."

yeah georgie, what in the world would THEY know about Iraq.

one word: incompetent