Charge: Bush Diverted $700 Million to Iraq
David Sirota reports:
Desperate to tamp down outrage from Congress, the White House and its allies yesterday spun out various responses for Bob Woodward's allegation that the Administration secretly took $700 million from the hunt for Al Qaeda in Afghanistan and diverted it into Iraq war planning in 2002. Yet no one provided any proof that Woodward's charges were inaccurate, nor fully denied that a secret transaction occurred. Check out today's Progress Report which analyzes the White House's reactions. Notice the last bullet showing how by Condoleezza Rice's logic, Austin, Texas is the same region as Nicaragua...
There's more on David Sirota's blog here.
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