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Claim Bush came to office plotting Iraq war "flat wrong": RiceEdited on Sun Apr-29-07 07:10 PM by Barrett808
Source: AFP
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice rejected as "flat wrong" on Sunday assertions by former CIA director George Tenet that George W. Bush came into office already plotting to invade Iraq and overthrow Saddam Hussein.
"In the entire period after the president became president, he was trying to put together and international coalition that could deal with Iraq," Rice said in an interview on CNN.
She said Bush tried a range of options to counter the perceived threat posed by Saddam, from "smart sanctions" to tougher no fly zones and challenging the Iraqi leader before the UN Security Council.
"This was a period of more than a year and a half of trying to find other ways to deal with the threat of Saddam Hussein," she said.
"The idea that the president had made up his mind when he came to office that he was going to go to war against Iraq is just flat wrong," she said.
Source: AFP
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice rejected as "flat wrong" on Sunday assertions by former CIA director George Tenet that George W. Bush came into office already plotting to invade Iraq and overthrow Saddam Hussein.
"In the entire period after the president became president, he was trying to put together and international coalition that could deal with Iraq," Rice said in an interview on CNN.
She said Bush tried a range of options to counter the perceived threat posed by Saddam, from "smart sanctions" to tougher no fly zones and challenging the Iraqi leader before the UN Security Council.
"This was a period of more than a year and a half of trying to find other ways to deal with the threat of Saddam Hussein," she said.
"The idea that the president had made up his mind when he came to office that he was going to go to war against Iraq is just flat wrong," she said.
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