"Secret"
September 26th, 2007Apparently a Spanish official has released a transcript of a private talk between Dubya and Jose Maria Aznar of Spain in early 2003.
The gist of the conversation is that Dubya is going to invade regardless of what the world thinks, and is dead set on the “fact” that Saddam is an immediate threat to the US.
He also believed that the takeover would happen without widespread destruction.
Even with the Spanish prime minister pleading for patience and for letting diplomacy handle Iraq, the decider would not accept any else’s advice.
There is a crude Google translation of the transcript in the article
http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003646639
Technorati Tags: bush, aznar, spain, US, iraq, invasion
Loading ...
RSS
September 26th, 2007 at 6:36 pm
“Private” is supposed to mean that no one else is present or listening. So either this conversation wasn’t really private or the transcript is a fraud.
September 28th, 2007 at 6:37 pm
You must have read a different conversation. That one suggests to me that Bush and Aznar were anxious to avoid war — that they wanted Saddam to abdicate so that the US and its allies could occupy the country peacefully, without bloodshed.
November 12th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
fkpl0oe9qkj06s8i