Reply #2: fatboy potato face axed him about it on MTP

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Graham said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that his meeting with Franks was at the general’s headquarters, Central Command in Tampa, Florida. “He laid out a very precise strategy for fighting the war on terror,” Graham said.

“First, we should win the war in Afghanistan. Second, move to Somalia, which as he described was almost anarchy but with a substantial number of al-Qaida cells; then to Yemen. And that we should be very careful about Iraq, because our intelligence was so weak that we didn’t know what we were getting into,” Graham said.

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In “American Soldier,” Franks’ memoirs published last month, he mentioned none of the points Graham reported in his book. The retired general could not be reached Sunday. There was no immediate response to a message left at Tampa’s Central Command headquarters.

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In an excerpt read on the program, the senator said Franks told him “his men and resources were being moved to Iraq, where he felt that our intelligence was shoddy. This admission was coming almost 14 months before the beginning of combat operations in Iraq and only five months after the commencement of combat in Afghanistan.”

funny how little mention this gets outside DU. note the source for the above snip, which the CNN article in header doesn't mention
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2004/September/focusoniraq_September37.xml§ion=focusoniraq