at about 2.40pm on September 11, 2001, Rumsfeld mused whether the US should "hit S.H. @ same time - not only UBL [Osama bin Laden]""

Asked the most surprising thing he discovered, Woodward scratches his head. There were hundreds. I offer the level of access that the Saudi ambassador had to Bush. He agrees it was stunning. Bandar was "able to walk into the Oval Office at the drop of a hat," he says.

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Don't forget the liberated Haitians, on whom we forced Aristide. And the liberated Iranians, on whom we forced the Shah. And the Philippines, on whom we forced Marcos. And the Dominican Republic, on whom we forced the Trujillos. And Indonesia, where the U.S. government helped Suharto liberate tens of thousands of East Timorese from the burden of living.

10. "[President Bush] went to the U.N., as you might recall, and said, either you take care of him, or we will. Any time an American President says, if you don't, we will, we better be prepared to. . . . And the credibility of the United States is incredibly important for keeping world peace and freedom."
(In other words, the President can make any stupid threat he wants, and all Americans are obligated to back up that threat with their money and their lives. That, I guess, is how "we serve the cause of liberty.")