So in late 2001 the 1600 Crew and Preznit Mal Feasance were already lying publically about the invasion of Iraq? From a general who has no real reason to publically dis Preznit Minimal Smarts, Tommy Franks confirms that they were asking him to redo plans to invade Iraq while the campaign in Afghanistan was still hot.

In the Washington speech a month ago, Franks said he told the president at that Dec. 28 meeting that the existing contingency plan for Iraq had called for sending in a half-million troops, an operation so massive it would require a six-month buildup.

Franks said he told Bush that the long-standing plan needed to be redrawn and if the U.S. military did go in, ''We should go all the way to Baghdad.''
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According to Woodward's book, Bush told Rumsfeld on Nov. 21, 2001 less than two months after U.S. forces attacked Afghanistan to prepare for possible war with Iraq, and kept some members of his closest circle in the dark.

The meeting with Franks on Dec. 28 was apparently the first briefing from him that the president had received since those instructions.
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Among the plan's assumptions were that Iraq would launch missiles against Israel and other neighbors, and that allied troops would be hit with weapons of mass destruction, Franks said.