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Current Events » in reply to re: "My job is to think beyond the immediate," Bush said.

Here's another example of their editing.

Pentagon Deleted Rumsfeld Comment

Remark to Saudi About War's Certainty Is Not in Internet Transcript of Interview

The Pentagon deleted from a public transcript a statement Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld made to author Bob Woodward suggesting that the administration gave Saudi Arabia a two-month heads-up that President Bush had decided to invade Iraq.

At issue was a passage in Woodward's "Plan of Attack," an account published this week of Bush's decision making about the war, quoting Rumsfeld as telling Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the Saudi ambassador to Washington, in January 2003 that he could "take that to the bank" that the invasion would happen.

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