2/15/2002

Former Senator Bob Graham (D-FL), “who was chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in 2002, wrote an op-ed piece in the Washington Post on November 20, 2005: ‘In February 2002…after a briefing on the status of the war in Afghanistan, the commanding officer, General Tommy Franks, told me the war was being compromised as specialized personnel and equipment were being shifted from Afghanistan to prepare for the war in Iraq–a war more than a year away.’ ” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]

 – Vincent Bugliosi, The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, Page 220