Liar

Bush lied to the American people. What will we tell the children?

WASHINGTON (AP) Following an important meeting on Iraq war planning in late 2001, President Bush told the public that the discussions was about Afghanistan. He made no mention afterward about Iraq even though that was the real focus of the session at his ranch.

''I'm right now focused on the military operations in Afghanistan,'' Bush told reporters after talks on Dec. 28, 2001, with top aides and generals.

A ''war update'' was the White House description of the news conference Bush held with Gen. Tommy Franks, who was in charge of the Afghan war as head of U.S. Central Command.

Details of the meeting's focus on Iraq have since emerged in a recent speech by Franks, who now is retired, and in a new book by Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward.