I'm sure you've all heard it by now. I don't even need to post a link for that reason. But as you all know (or should know) Former Secretary of Treasury Paul O'Neill stated in his book that President Bush had intentions of going after Iraq since day ONE in office. LONG before 9/11 influenced anything.
What do you people think? Is Paul O'Neill telling the truth? Or is he just CRAZY?
He was a bad salesman and that's all he was hired to be. Regime change has been our policy since Clinton signed the Iraq Liberation Act. Bush supported regime change in the campaign and supported it every year afterward. You can have regime change through non-war methods, though. You can push hard on new sanctions. You can fund anti-Saddam Iraqi resistance groups. You can enforce sanctions. You can press Middle Eastern countries to encourage Saddam to step down. You can do lots of things. 9/11 put war on the table and Bush made the decision to go that route in March of 2003.
