October 27, 2003

And from the 'We will find these people and we will bring them to justice' department:

Bush ordered officials tracking al Qaeda to switch focus to Iraq
"By early March, 2002, a former White House official told me, it was understood by many in the White House that the Resident had decided, in his own mind, to go to war. The undeclared decision had a devastating impact on the continuing struggle against terrorism. The Bush Administration took many intelligence operations that had been aimed at Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups around the world and redirected them to the Persian Gulf. Linguists and special operatives were abruptly reassigned, and several ongoing anti-terrorism intelligence programs were curtailed." - - from Part V of Seymour Hersh's 'The Stovepipe' .

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