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...TIME: So when 'slam dunk' comes out in Bob Woodward's Plan of Attack, did you think the hard-liners inside the White House and Pentagon were hanging...
...TIME: How aware were you that there were some in the Vice President's office and the Pentagon didn't like the CIA, didn't trust its conclusions...
...vice president and Pentagon civilians, however, advocated a very different approach. Rather than risking an open-ended political process that Americans could influence but not control, they wanted to be able to limit the Iraqis' power and handpick those Iraqis who would participate. In practice, that meant Ahmed Chalabi and a handful of other well-known, longtime exiled oppositionists, along with the leaders of the essentially autonomous Kurdish areas. The differences in approach were clear and starkly articulated. The vice president himself summed up the dilemma: The choice, he said, was between "control and legitimacy." [Undersecretary of Defense] Doug Feith...
...Hovering over this entire process was the figure-seldom acknowledged, almost never mentioned-of Ahmed Chalabi. Time and again, during the months leading up to the invasion and for months thereafter, the representatives of the vice president and Pentagon officials would introduce ideas that were thinly veiled efforts to put Chalabi in charge of post-invasion Iraq. Immediately before the invasion, the effort took the form of a proposal, put forward insistently and repeatedly, to form an Iraqi "government in exile," comprised of the exiles and the Kurdish leaders. These exiles would then be installed as a new government once...
...chance to work with the U.S. on missile defense, Obering said. "We have a combined interest in stopping this emerging missile threat," he said. "It's not the Russians that we're worried about - it's the Iranian missiles that we're worried about. There's thinking inside the Pentagon that Reagan's "Star Wars" plan so unnerved the Russians that they're still suffering from a Cold War hangover and ultimately might see the light and cooperate. But that's unlikely to happen so long as NATO encroaches further east toward the Russian frontier. Russians have always feared invasions...