Yeah, but that's because we're FReepers, we can't expect government to be as smart as we are. ;-)
I was watching the TV with my middle school aged homeschooled kids when the second plane hit the tower. I turned to them and said "Osama bin Laden is toast." I knew it even then!
I'm not surprised those discussions were going on in the White House, hell, they were going on here at FR!! Just because things are discussed as a possibility doesn't mean those things are going to come to pass immediately! We had our sights set on Iraq ever since Gulf War 1 for pete's sake! The ball was in Hussein's court at that time whether or not we'd have to intervene again.
This book is a hit piece designed to shed more heat than light on the subject of President Bush.