Bush asked for military 'options' in Iraq in November 2001: "Rumsfeld about possible actions in Iraq just two months after the September 11 attacks, while the United States was embroiled in the war in Afghanistan
... "The president apparently did talk to Don Rumsfeld and say to him, you know, 'I need to know what my options might be concerning Iraq'," Rice told "Fox News Sunday."
"We planned for Afghanistan, we fought the war in Afghanistan. By the end of November, things started to wind down in Afghanistan, and I do think the president's mind was beginning to move to what else he would have to do to deal with the blow, with the threat that had emerged as a result of 9/11."
A new book said Bush began planning to attack Iraq in December two years ago despite repeated comments Washington was seeking a diplomatic way out of the standoff with Baghdad."
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