Certainly, the overwhelming evidence points to Bush wanting to create a justification for going to war in Iraq - before 9/11 even. The memo, however, was dated Jan. 31, 2003, not 2001 as the War Room states.

Am I missing something, or was the meeting actually January 31, 2003?

They'll weasel out of this one by parsing the word "want." You can already write McClellan's responses. All the surrogates will say: of course the planning was necessary--because he was driven to it by Saddam, Al Qaeda, whoever. He didn't want to do it, but had to do it.

See, he's the educator-in-chief and had to teach the world a lesson.

War Room states:

"During a meeting in the Oval Office in January 2001, the Times says ..."

No, it doesn't. The New York Times says the meeting was in January 2003 .

The Times article says the meeting took place on Jan 31, 2003 while you say it took place in 2001. I think it's a typo that needs correction. I have not seen many errors in your reporting, so I am assuming this is a typo. thanks

alex

Before he was President, in 1999, George W. Bush Talked Privately about his Desire to Attack Iraq.

Author and journalist Mickey Herskowitz was working as a ghost-writer for a planned auto-biography for George W. Bush. In the process of interviews for the book, Bush is quoted as saying, "One of the keys to being seen as a great leader is to be seen as a commander-in-chief...My father had all this political capital built up when he drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait and he wasted it...If I have a chance to invade, if I had that much capital, I'm not going to waste it. I'm going to get everything passed that I want to get passed and I'm going to have a successful presidency."

http://www.gnn.tv/articles/article.php?id=761