the first casualty of war

from Media Matters for America:

Gen. Franks's claim in NYT contradicted by news reports

In an October 16 New York Times op-ed piece, retired General Tommy Franks attempted to undermine Senator John Kerry's assertion that the Bush administration "took its eye off the ball" with regard to pursuing Osama bin Laden and prosecuting the war against Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. Franks claimed: "Neither attention nor manpower was diverted from Afghanistan to Iraq." But highly specialized personnel and equipment that had been used successfully against Al Qaeda and bin Laden were reassigned in March 2002 to the impending invasion of Iraq.

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