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kentuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-04 07:49 AM
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" !#$%!@&*#$!!*&$#!! " ---Tommy Franks' remarks...
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Iraq-Woodward-Book.html

In an interview two years later, Bush told Woodward that if the news had leaked, it would have caused ``enormous international angst and domestic speculation.''

The Bush administration's drive toward war with Iraq raised an international furor anyway, alienating long-time allies who did not believe the White House had made a sufficient case against Saddam. Saddam was toppled a year ago and taken into custody last December. But the central figure of al-Qaida, Osama bin Laden, remains at large and a threat to the west.

The book says Gen. Tommy Franks, who was in charge of the Afghan war as head of Central Command, uttered a string of obscenities when the Pentagon told him to come up with an Iraq war plan in the midst of fighting another conflict.

Woodward, a Washington Post journalist who wrote an earlier book on Bush's anti-terrorism campaign and broke the Watergate scandal with Carl Bernstein, says Cheney's well-known hawkish attitudes on Iraq were frequently decisive in Bush's decision-making.

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DoYouEverWonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-04 07:55 AM
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1. Well maybe Tommy can give us the courtesy
of taking a break from his retirement down in Midland and letting the American people know what he really thinks about this mess that he's so willingly helped us get into?

Franks thinks he was being a good soldier, but a good soldier does what's best for his country and his troops, not what his best for the unelected, AWOL, excuse of a human, that currently resides in the WH.

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sce56 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-04 08:02 AM
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3. Maybe he does not want to have an accident!
Edited on Fri Apr-16-04 08:03 AM by sce56
Maybe we could remind him of the other lies from this puppet in the white house! Like the I did not go AWOL story when his official bio from official records shows him never having served in Alabama!

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displacedtexan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-04 07:57 AM
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2. What does it take to get through to sheeple?
Flame me, sheeple lovers!
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Snellius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-04 08:09 AM
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4. There's a surprising photo of Franks in Vanity Fair
It's a picture of the tuxedoed General and his wife standing around at an Oscar night Hollywood cocktail party with Ed Rusha, the L.A. artist, and the actor Harvey Keitel. Tommy Franks in the iniquitous pithole of liberal LA-LA Land? What?
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