The Woodward interviews yesterday with Larry Clueless
and Wolf Bluster of SeeNotNews are significant. The
SeeBS Sixty Minutes interview was last Sunday. The
White House has been distorting the truth in his book
all week. But Woodward has not capitulated, AND
SeeNotNews had him on prime-time to counter the White
House spin. Yes, there is a fracture developing in the
"US Mainstream News Media." The Bush cabal's grip on
power is weakening...Therefore, it is a very dangerous
time...
CNN: Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan's assertions that he did not learn of President Bush's decision to launch war on Iraq before Secretary of State Colin Powell are false, journalist Bob Woodward told CNN on Friday. "For some reason, Bandar wants to fuzz this up," said Woodward, whose book "Plan of Attack" tells of a meeting in early January 2003 in which Vice
President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald
Rumsfeld briefed Bandar on war plans..."Bandar called
me last night," he added. "Woke me up -- a quarter of
12. And we went through this. And I said, 'What are
you doing?'
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http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/23/woodward.bandar/index.html
Woodward: Saudi envoy trying to 'fuzz up' meeting He says Bandar told him he thought Iraq war was imminent
Friday, April 23, 2004 Posted: 7:15 PM EDT (2315 GMT)
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan's
assertions that he did not learn of President Bush's
decision to launch war on Iraq before Secretary of
State Colin Powell are false, journalist Bob Woodward
told CNN on Friday.
"For some reason, Bandar wants to fuzz this up," said
Woodward, whose book "Plan of Attack" tells of a
meeting in early January 2003 in which Vice President
Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld
briefed Bandar on war plans.
He said Bandar woke him up with a late phone call
Thursday night and ended up acknowledging that
Woodward's description of the meeting was accurate.
Bandar, the Saudi ambassador to the United States, has
said Woodward was correct when he said he attended a
meeting at the White House on a Saturday -- two days
before Powell was told of the decision to go to war.
But Bandar said this week on CNN's "Larry King Live"
that Woodward missed an element.
"Both Vice President Cheney and Secretary Rumsfeld
told me before the briefing that the president has not
made a decision yet, but here is the plan," Bandar
said.
"Not true," Woodward told CNN's Wolf Blitzer. "In this
meeting you have the secretary of defense saying --
according to the secretary of defense's own words --
'you can take this to the bank; this is going to
happen.' And I interviewed the president, and we spent
a long time going over that meeting and the meeting
with Colin Powell.
"And the president is the one who said, like to Colin
Powell, 'time to get your war uniform on.' That's not
a maybe. That's: War is coming. It could not have been
clearer. For some reason Bandar wants to fuzz this up.
"Bandar called me last night," he added. "Woke me up
-- a quarter of 12. And we went through this. And I
said, 'What are you doing?' "
Woodward said Bandar told him that he had officially
been told that a decision had not been made, but that
the White House had made it clear the decision was in
fact made.
"I said, 'Well, the issue here is when you left that
meeting did you think the president had decided on
war?' Woodward told CNN. "Bandar said 'absolutely.' "