President Bush Was Warned About Invading Iraq From Donald Rumsfeld Himself

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Donald Rumsfeld's Secret Memo Warned George W. Bush About Iraq -- The Australian/The Times

A SECRET memo from Donald Rumsfeld, written when he was US Defence Secretary, warned of a "parade of horribles" that could happen if the United States invaded Iraq.

Dated October, 2002, five months before the US-led campaign was launched, the memo listed 29 reasons why military confrontation with Saddam Hussein could go badly for America.

It even contemplated the possibility that no weapons of mass destruction would be found.

Mr Rumsfeld sent the memo to President George W. Bush at 7.45am on October 15, 2002. The memo has been declassified and now appears on Mr Rumsfeld's personal website, after the publication last month of his memoirs Known and Unknown.

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My Comment: Former Sec. of Defense Rumsfeld has a long history of providing a critical viewpoint towards possible political/military scenarios .... especially looking at worse case scenarios. Therefore the release of this memo does not surprise me .... unfortunately .... his boss did not accept his analysis on Iraq when he gave it to him in 2002.

Therefore .... it is also no surprise that in today's conflicts .... he is skeptical about U.S. intervention in Libya .... a point of view that I also share 100%.