Former Secretary of State Colin Powell writes in his forthcoming book that George W. Bush’s National Security Council never met to discuss whether the U.S. should go to war in Iraq.
“He [Bush] had crossed the line in his own mind, even though the NSC [National Security Council] had never met — and never would meet — to discuss the decision,” Powell wrote, according to Dan Froomkin of the Huffington Post, who obtained an advanced copy of Powell’s book It Worked For Me: In Life and Leadership.
From HuffPo:
Bush insisted in his own 2010 memoir, “Decision Points,” that the invasion was something he came to support only reluctantly and after a long period of reflection. During his book tour, he even cast himself as “a dissenting voice” in the run-up to war. “I didn’t wanna use force,” he said.
But Powell supports the increasingly well-documented conclusion that there was actually no decision-making point — or decision-making process — during the events between the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the March 2003 invasion of Iraq, which had nothing to do with those attacks.
Powell’s book will be released on May 22.
