Bing West alleges Fallujah assault was driven by White House anger

What was said

"They all acted emotionally and they they fed on one another in the meeting at the White House saying we can't let this happen. We can't be pushed around like this. All of them, Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, Secretary of State Powell, Condereza Rice, and the President, the Vice President."

Bing West alleges that after US contractors were killed in Fallujah, President George W Bush and senior officials pushed for a major assault because they did not want the US seen as being pushed around. He says he later read an NSC meeting transcript and argues the decision was emotional, then later reversed under political and media pressure.