Among the disclosures in the book , which drew from numerous sources and more than 19,000 internal government documents , one was that the overthrow of Saddam Hussein and the U.S. occupation of Iraq was planned from Bush 's first U.S. National Security Council meeting in January 2001 , soon after Bush took office . This lay in contrast to the perception that concerns over Iraq came to the forefront after the September 11 attacks in 2001 . Administration officials have contended that O'Neill confused contingency plans with actual plans for invasion
September 11 attacks
September 11 attacks
Ron Suskind