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Dereliction of Duty

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Why mess with the Boston Globe’s original headline?

Following an important meeting on Iraq war planning in late 2001, President Bush told the public that the discussions were about Afghanistan. He made no mention afterward about Iraq even though that was the real focus of the session at his ranch. “I’m right now focused on the military operations in Afghanistan,” Bush told reporters … Franks presented a list of assumptions that were behind the [war] plan. They included that Iraq would be the main effort of the United States and would get priority on resources, and that the Afghan operation and the global fight against terrorism would provide a noise level under which Iraq operations could proceed.

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