04-18-2004, 06:29 PM
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But, it turns out, two days before the president told Powell, Cheney and Rumsfeld had already briefed Prince Bandar, the Saudi ambassador.
?Saturday, Jan. 11, with the president's permission, Cheney and Rumsfeld call Bandar to Cheney's West Wing office, and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Gen. Myers, is there with a top-secret map of the war plan. And it says, ?Top secret. No foreign.? No foreign means no foreigners are supposed to see this,? says Woodward.
?They describe in detail the war plan for Bandar. And so Bandar, who's skeptical because he knows in the first Gulf War we didn't get Saddam out, so he says to Cheney and Rumsfeld, ?So Saddam this time is gonna be out, period?? And Cheney who has said nothing says the following: ?Prince Bandar, once we start, Saddam is toast.?"
After Bandar left, according to Woodward, Cheney said, ?I wanted him to know that this is for real. We're really doing it."
But this wasn?t enough for Prince Bandar, who Woodward says wanted confirmation from the president. ?Then, two days later, Bandar is called to meet with the president and the president says, ?Their message is my message,?? says Woodward.
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