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As the commissioners questioned Bush about why he did not authorize military activity to kill bin Laden in the months before 9/11, Bush mentioned that he had recently spoken with British Prime Minister Tony Blair who observed that "they were being criticized for not launching a preemptive attack against Afghanistan. And they were criticized for preemptively attacking Iraq." Blair allegedly told Bush that if the president had said "before 9/11 that he wanted to put forces in Afghanistan, he " Blair " would have been floored. I would have looked at you like a nut,' Blair said. There was an appetite for a throat ----' (killing Bin Ladin), not a war footing." With no apparent sense of the lethal irony present, Bush told the commissioners, "A president can't force preemptive war without a cause. The country didn't like war. I don't like it either,' the President said."

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