The Price of Loyalty the Bush Files


The Bush Files : From The Book , National Security

Page 83 - First Week's Plans For Iraqi Takeover (22 pages)

On most mornings, O'Neill received a package of documents from his aides to prepare him for the day's meetings. His papers for February 1, 2001, included an agenda for an NSC meeting to be held in the White House Situation Room that afternoon on U.S. policy in the Persian Gulf. The agenda -- an unclassified cover sheet to classified documents that were not included in O'Neill's papers -- refers to a secret paper on a "Political-Military Plan for Post-Saddam Iraq." It is one of several indications of how regime change in Iraq and handling post-war nation-building had come to dominate discussions of foreign policy in the first days of the administration. Click here to go directly to the agenda.

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© 2004 Ron Suskind