Yahoo! News - Rice Denies Book's Claim on Iraq Decision
WASHINGTON - National security adviser Condoleezza Rice forcefully disputed on Sunday an assertion that President Bush decided in early January 2003 to invade Iraq, three months before official accounts say the decision was made.

The statement, in Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward's new book about the run-up to war, is "simply not, not right," Rice said.

Rice did not deny the private conversation between her and Bush just after New Year's Day in which Woodward said the decision was made, but she said the writer had misinterpreted what was said.

She said Woodward also misread another comment attributed to her, that since Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld knew of the "go" decision and Secretary of State Colin Powell did not, perhaps Bush should tell Powell.

You guys get to work on Bob Woodward's credibility now. Make sure you trash him the way you have trashed O'Neill and Clarke. Funny how all these people who were in the know were so wrong about Bush! Amazing!