Selective Amnesia

Poor President Bush. His memory seems to be failing:

President George W. Bush has denied that his administration began drafting plans for the invasion of Iraq shortly after the September 11 attacks, insisting he did not begin to focus on Iraq until nearly a year later.
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The comments came in response to the publication of excerpts from Plan of Attack, a new book by Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward, which says Mr Bush ordered Donald Rumsfeld, his defence secretary, to draw up a fresh war plan for Iraq in November 2001.

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But Mr Bush told reporters he could not recall what plans were being developed in November 2001, and said he had focused on defeating al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan in the immediate aftermath of the attacks.

(So we're not saying that the story, which is consistent with accounts dating back to 9/12, is false - we're just denying that the President remembers something so minor as whether he ordered a key cabinet member to draft war plans.)

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