] At issue was a passage in Woodward's "Plan of Attack," an ] account published this week of Bush's decision making ] about the war, quoting Rumsfeld as telling Prince Bandar ] bin Sultan, the Saudi ambassador to Washington, in ] January 2003 that he could "take that to the bank" that ] the invasion would happen. ] Pentagon officials omitted the discussion of the meeting ] from a transcript of the Woodward interview that they ] posted on the Defense Department's Web site Monday. ] Rumsfeld told reporters at a briefing yesterday that he ] may have used the phrase "take that to the bank" but that ] no final decision had been made to go to war. This is continues a scary trend the Bush Administration has done since it came into the Whitehouse: Trying to Change history. They have already modified their robots.txt to prevent indexing of Iraq related information on whitehouse.gov, and now they are released transcripts that aren't complete? Sure we have the Washington Post to nail their ass, but will we always? As Clear Channel grows in power, ask yourself this: What would a politian be willing to do for a company that could literally change recorded history with its hold over all forms of media? Pentagon Deleted Rumsfeld Comment (washingtonpost.com) |