Rumsfeld writes of Bush’s early Iraq focus

WASHINGTON — Just 15 days after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, President George W. Bush invited his defense secretary, Donald H. Rumsfeld, to meet with him alone in the Oval Office. According to Mr. Rumsfeld’s new memoir, the president leaned back in his leather chair and ordered a review and revision of war plans — but not for Afghanistan, where the al-Qaida attacks on New York and Washington had been planned and where U.S. retaliation was imminent. “He asked that I take a look at the shape of our military plans on Iraq,” Mr. Rumsfeld writes. “Two weeks after the worst terrorist attack in our nation’s history, those of us in the Department of Defense were fully…

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Rumsfeld writes of Bush’s early Iraq focus

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