'Bush planned Iraq war in Dec 2001'
AFP, Washington
President George W. Bush was planning to attack Iraq in December 2001 despite public assurances Washington was seeking a diplomatic solution to the standoff with Baghdad, according to a new book whose excerpts were made public here. The book, titled "Plan of Attack," was written by Bob Woodward, the Washington Post reporter who along with Carl Bernstein unveiled the Watergate scandal that led to President Richard Nixon's resignation in 1974. Woodward is currently an assistant managing editor at the Post. He writes that Bush met repeatedly with his war cabinet in late 2001 -- three months after the September 11 terror attacks on the United States -- to plan the US attack on Iraq, according to excerpts made available to his newspaper Friday.
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