More from Paul O'Neill

Following up on the O'Neill post...

Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill charges in a new book that President George W. Bush entered office in January 2001 intent on invading Iraq and was in search of a way to go about it.

...The former treasury secretary and other White House insiders gave Suskind documents that in the first three months of 2001 revealed the Bush administration was examining military options for removing Saddam Hussein, CBS said.

"There are memos," Suskind told CBS. "One of them marked 'secret' says 'Plan for Post-Saddam Iraq.'"

Another Pentagon document entitled "Foreign suitors for Iraqi Oil Field Contracts" talks about contractors from 40 countries and which ones have interest in Iraq, Suskind said.

..O'Neill was also quoted in the book as saying the president was determined to find a reason to go to war and he was surprised nobody on the National Security Council questioned why Iraq should be invaded.

"It was all about finding a way to do it. That was the tone of it," said O'Neill. "The president saying 'Go find me a way to do this.'"

And we have lots and lots of evidence that supports that statement. Not much of which has gotten any play in the "news". Maybe this will fare a little better, and if so, then maybe some of that other evidence will also be brought out.

White House spokesman Scott McClellan rejected O'Neill's remarks.

"We appreciate his service. While we're not in the business of doing book reviews, it appears that the world according to Mr. O'Neill is more about trying to justify his own opinions than looking at the reality of the results we are achieving on behalf of the American people," he said on Saturday.  Yahoo news

Somehow, Scotty, that doesn't comfort me. The results you are achieving on behalf of the American people sort of makes the American people responsible, doesn't it? Well, the results look pretty damned horrendous to me.

O'Neill, who was fired due to disagreements over tax cuts, spent a difficult two years in Washington, joining the Bush administration with a background as a no-nonsense corporate executive.

Now wait a minute - O'Neill wasn't fired. He resigned. Which may have been to avoid being fired, but nevertheless, it puts a spin on the story that shouldn't be there to say he was fired - makes his remarks more easily dismissed.

And remember, there was no place for Paul O'Neill, because we only need nonsense corporate executives in the White House.