War Was Planned

From 9/11 Encyclopedia:

The story of the war against the Taliban began already in 1997, when Brzezinski, Zbigniew and the Cfr put their war Plans in a Book, 
which was described as "A Blueprint for World Dictatorship": 
"Eurasia is all of the territory east of Germany and Poland, stretching all the way through Russia and China to the Pacific Ocean. It includes the Middle East and most of the Indian subcontinent. 
The key to controlling Eurasia, says Brzezinski, is controlling the Central Asian Republics.
And the key to controlling the Central Asian republics is Uzbekistan." (Quote: "Blueprint...")

Other indicators: 
1) On November 6, 2002, Dr. Johannes B. Koeppl, Ph.D. a former German defense ministry official and advisor to former NATO Secretary General Manfred Woerner told Ruppert,Mike from FTW, that "the interests behind the Bush Administration, such as the CFR, The Trilateral Commission ­ founded by Brzezinski for David Rockefeller ­ and the Bilderberger Group, have prepared for and are now moving to implement open world dictatorship within the next five years. They are not fighting against terrorists. They are fighting against citizens." 

2) In 2000 Russia tried to attack Afghanistan, but was blocked by the United States: "After the militant incursion in 2000, the United States sent military equipment for Kyrgyz border guards as part of a comprehensive US equipment and training support package--a $3-million allocation.43 US Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright articulated the initial aid promise during an April 2000 visit to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. Albright also pledged similar support for Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. At the same time, leaders from the FBI and CIA visited this region.
CIA Director George J. Tenet met with his Uzbek counterpart in Tashkent to "discuss American aid with satellite intelligence information 
and other special equipment to combat terrorism.."
Source: Major Gregory R. Sarafian, US Army http://www-cgsc.army.mil/MILREV/English/MayJun01/sara.htm 

3) Long before 9/11, the White House debated taking the fight to al-Qaeda. "...One such meeting took place in the White House situation room during the first week of January 2001. The session was part of a program designed by Bill Clinton's National Security Adviser, Sandy Berger, who wanted the transition between the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations to run as smoothly as possible. 
With some bitterness, Berger remembered how little he and his colleagues had been helped by the first Bush Administration in 1992-93. 
Eager to avoid a repeat of that experience, he had set up a series of 10 briefings by his team for his successor,
Condoleezza Rice, and her deputy, Stephen Hadley.... 
Source: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,333835,00.html

4) March 15th, 2001 : British-based Jane's International Security reports, that the new American administration was working with India, Iran and Russia "in a concerted front against Afghanistan's Taliban regime."

5) In May 2002 Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage (->), a career covert operative and former Navy Seal, traveled to India on a publicized tour while CIA Director George Tenet made a quiet visit to Pakistan to meet with Pakistani leader General Pervez Musharraf. 
Armitage has long and deep Pakistani intelligence connections and he is the recipient of the highest civil decoration awarded by Pakistan
. It would be reasonable to assume that while in Islamabad, Tenet, in what was described as 'an unusually long meeting,' 
also met with his Pakistani counterpart, Lt. General Mahmud Ahmad, head of the ISI. 

6) July 2001: Three American officials, Tom Simmons (former U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan), Karl Inderfurth (former Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian affairs) and Lee Coldren (former State Department expert on South Asia), meet with Taliban representatives in Berlin and tell them that the U.S. is planning military strikes against Afghanistan in October. Also present are Russian and German intelligence officers who confirm the threat. 
[Source: The Guardian, September 22, 2001; the BBC, September 18, 2001.] 

7) Summer 2001 - According to a Sept. 26 story in Britain s The Guardian, correspondent David Leigh reported that, "U.S. department of defense official, Dr. Jeffrey Starr, visited Tajikistan in January." The Guardian's Felicity Lawrence established that US Rangers were also training special troops in Kyrgyzstan. There were unconfirmed reports that Tajik and Uzbek special troops were training in Alaska and Montana. 

8) September 1-10, 2001 - 25,000 British troops and the largest British Armada since the Falkland Islands War, part of Operation 'Essential Harvest,' are pre-positioned in Oman, the closest point on the Arabian Peninsula to Pakistan. At the same time two U.S. carrier battle groups arrive on station in the Gulf of Arabia just off the Pakistani coast. At the same time, some 17,000 U.S. troops join more than 23,000 NATO troops in Egypt for Operation 'Bright Star.' 
All of these forces are in place before the first plane hits the World Trade Center. 
Sources: The Guardian, CNN, FOX, The Observer, International Law Professor Francis Boyle (->), University of Illinois.

(Naik, Niaz ->) (McFarlane, Robert ->) Compare:
US planned war in Afghanistan long before September 11 By Patrick Martin 20 November 2001 "..Insider accounts published in the British, French and Indian media have revealed that US officials threatened war against Afghanistan during the summer of 2001. These reports include the prediction, made in July, that "if the military action went ahead, it would take place before the snows started falling in Afghanistan, by the middle of October at the latest." The Bush administration began its bombing strikes on the hapless, poverty-stricken country October 7, and ground attacks by US Special Forces began October 19. Source: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/nov2001/afgh-n20.shtml

In February 2002, Paul Bremer, former U.S. ambassador for counterterrorism during the Reagan administration confirmed in an USA Today article, that "the U.S. government has been planning for bin Laden's capture since 1996, according to two U.S. intelligence officials who say they helped draw up the plans. A CIA spokesman declined to comment." http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2001-2002/2001-02-28-main.htm Donald Rumsfeld confirmed in an interview with TIME magazine, that a war was in planning: "..It was sometime between the period when I agreed to do the job and February..we did not run around saying things that we would not do. That is to say, to announce publicly that we're going to use air power but not ground forces..." ".. it was discussed, it was agreed to, it was put in place, and it involved putting pressure on the Taliban and the al Qaeda... .
.The short answer is that Tommy Franks, the general, the combatant commander, proposed a plan, it was discussed, it was agreed to, it was put in place, and it involved putting pressure on the Taliban and the al Qaeda and recognizing that some of what was going on would be visible, some would not be visible, and that we needed to be patient and that it would take some time, and that the world was expecting an explosion of cruise missiles on television and that they would have to have, that we would have to manage those expectations down..."
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Dec2001/t12262001_t1214tim.html 

Sometime in early spring 2001, according to an account reconstructed by Condoleeza Rice from her own memory and from those of others present, Bush expressed impatience with the pace of progress against bin Laden. After being briefed in the Oval Office about recent threat warnings, with Cheney and White House Chief of Staff Andrew H. Card Jr. in the room, Bush is said to have replied: 
"I'm tired of swatting flies. I'm tired of playing defense. I want to play offense. I want to take the fight to the terrorists." 
Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A8802-2002Jan19

Many skeptics came to the conclusion, that Bush knew much more before Sep11th, than he claims. Maybe not much, but a lot about political changes.
For instance, we have this "Indonesia" mystery:
"Just eight days after the attacks in New York and Washington on 11 September 2001, the Indonesian president Megawati Sukarnoputri kept a previously scheduled appointment with President Bush. In the short meeting, Bush promised to lift the embargo on commercial sales of non-lethal military items. 
Indonesian military officials and much of the Indonesian press thought that Megawati had scored a victory in restoring military ties. 
Many speculated that Bush was offering Megawati a recruitment bonus to join his coalition against terrorism. But in an off-the-record conversation, a White House official explained that the package Bush presented to Megawati was completed on September 10th, and not a word was changed after the events of the next day. Much of what Bush promised Megawati was from the administration's review of US-Indonesian military ties policy that had taken place over the northern summer."
http://www.insideindonesia.org/edit70/kurtedit_a.htm
More: http://dailynews.attbi.com/cgi-bin/news?e=pri&dt=020516&cat=news&st=newsattackbushorderdc.html 
Al Qaeda 'Game Plan' on Bush's Desk Sept. 9 - NBC
http://dailynews.attbi.com/cgi-bin/news?e=pri&dt=020516&cat=news&st=newsattackbushorderdc.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_15550000/1550366.stm (See Naik,Niaz) Compare: (-> PNAC -> Iraq war was planned)