WASHINGTON, D.C.

Bush, facing division, urges allies to stick to Iraq mission

Faced with wavering allies and a divided America, President Bush on Friday urged all to stand firm against terrorism in Iraq and around the globe. A visit to the bedsides of wounded soldiers underscored the one-year toll of 570 American deaths in Iraq.

The White House invited the ambassadors of 84 countries involved in the U.S.-led war on terror to the White House for Bush’s call for resolve.

“We are the nations that have recognized the threat of terrorism, and we are the nations that will defeat that threat,” the president said in a speech marking the one-year anniversary of his launch of the invasion of Iraq.

Hoping to emphasize unity over division, Bush recited six long lists in the 24-minute address of countries that have suffered terrorist attacks or been involved in the response to them.

WASHINGTON, D.C.

Ex-adviser: Bush considered bombing Iraq right after 9-11

The Bush administration considered bombing Iraq in retaliation almost immediately after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks against New York and Washington, according to a new first-person account by a former senior counterterrorism adviser inside the White House.

Richard Clarke, the president’s counterterrorism coordinator at the time of the attacks, said Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld complained on Sept. 12 — after the administration was convinced with certainty that al-Qaida was to blame — that, “there aren’t any good targets in Afghanistan and there are lots of good targets in Iraq.”

A spokesman for Rumsfeld said he couldn’t comment immediately.

Clarke makes the assertion in a new book, “Against All Enemies,” which goes on sale Monday morning. He told CBS News he believes the administration sought to link Iraq with the attacks because of long-standing interest in overthrowing Saddam Hussein.

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Canadians trace tainted cattle feed to two plants

Canadian officials have traced to two mills the feed that probably caused North America’s two cases of mad cow disease, one in Canada last May and the other in the United States in December.

The feed from the Canadian mills could have contained infectious protein from imported British cattle, said Dr. George Luterbach, an official of a mad cow working group in the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. He said Canadian law prohibited disclosing the identity of the mills.

Canada reported its only case of the brain-wasting disease in an animal on a farm in Alberta. The United States followed with an announcement that an animal in Mabton, Wash., had mad cow. Both animals had been raised on farms in Alberta. And both ate feed containing meat and bone meal while they were calves.