Richard Clarke was right. So was Paul O'Neill. During the six months before the 9/11 terrorist attacks the Bush administration paid little attention to the threat from al-Qaeda and instead set the stage for a war with Iraq.
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U.S. President George W. Bush again confirmed his
intention to continue waging wars of aggression in
his State of the Union message on January 20, 2004.
He began his address:
" As we...