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I believe it is the PENTAGON that is tasked with having contingency plans for invasions, not Bill Clinton. Those plans are done regardless of who is president. Clinton's policy against Iraq was our national policy, which is why we had sanctions and no-fly zones and the like.

I'm no Clinton fan, but having been a lurker on this forum for about a year, and active since 97, we were told anything and everything Clinton did was misdirected. Even his dep't of state and pentagon actions.

I can't see this Iraq stuff being the big story to come out of O'Neill's book to anyone with a memory and an understanding that we have contingency plans for a lot of things.......unless this flap brings out some intelligence related to Iraq's involvement in 9/11 that has been kept quiet.

I think the bigger story would be the tax cut stuff. Most people won't know or care that O'Neill wasn't on board with tax policy when he was in the Administration.

It's those "quotes" from Bush that will get the attention. It's like he's being manipulated by others, he was convinced to cut taxes for the "rich" against his better judgement.

Didn't we see stories like this with Reagan?