Article: Bremer says he did not mean Bush took no action against terrorism


AP Worldstream
05-03-2004
Dateline: BAGHDAD, Iraq
L. Paul Bremer, the U.S. administrator in Iraq, said he regrets a statement he made more than six months before the Sept. 11 attacks that the Bush administration was "paying no attention" to terrorism.

Bremer said Sunday that any implied criticism that U.S. President George W. Bush was not acting against terrorism was "unfair."

Ahead of the November election, Bush is facing criticism he didn't make terrorism his No. 1 priority before the attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center and then weakened the war on terror by invading Iraq and shifting the focus from Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network. The resurfacing of Bremer's comments added ...

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