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 Post subject: The new Bob Woodward Book
PostPosted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 1:29 pm 
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Its all over the news today, and will be more after 60 Minutes and Newsweek does a cover this week.

Here's an intresting synopsis. Tear the Roof Off the Sucker:
NEW YORK - Henry Kissinger has been advising President Bush and Vice President Cheney about Iraq, telling them that "victory is the only meaningful exit strategy," author and journalist Bob Woodward said.

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The Washington Post editor's third book on the Bush administration, "State of Denial," comes out next week.

In an interview airing Sunday night on CBS-TV's "60 Minutes," Woodward said that U.S. troops and their allies are being attacked, on average, every 15 minutes.

"The truth is that the assessment by intelligence experts is that next year, 2007, is going to get worse and, in public, you have the president and you have the Pentagon saying, 'Oh, no, things are going to get better.'"

He said Kissinger, who served in the Nixon and Ford administrations, has been telling Bush and Cheney that "in Iraq, he declared very simply, 'Victory is the only meaningful exit strategy.'"

"This is so fascinating. Kissinger's fighting the Vietnam War again because, in his view, the problem in Vietnam was we lost our will."

Woodward's 537-page book describes the administration as beset by infighting, according to The New York Times, which obtained an advance copy and reported on its contents Friday.

The 537-page book is based on interviews with administration leaders, including Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. However, sources are not always named, and neither the president nor Vice President Dick Cheney agreed to interviews, the book says, according to the Times.

Asked about the book, the White House on Thursday night dismissed it, telling The Associated Press it didn't contain anything new. During a briefing Friday at a NATO meeting in Slovenia, Rumsfeld declined comment on the book, saying he hadn't read it.

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 1:33 pm 
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Been seeing mucho press on this as of late. Will look into picking it up when its used or paperback.

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I wish I wasn't so fucking tired/fed up with Bob Woodward cuz this sounds like a fascinating read.

He's not too far away from me referring to him as a self-aggrandizing hack on an internet message board.

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i think he is already there. his involvement in the Plame shit was f'd up.

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Yail Bloor Wrote:
I wish I wasn't so fucking tired/fed up with Bob Woodward cuz this sounds like a fascinating read.

He's not too far away from me referring to him as a self-aggrandizing hack on an internet message board.


That's BOB WOODWARD you are speaking of, Bubba. Always remember that.

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i think he is already there. his involvement in the Plame shit was f'd up.


A journalist is only as good as his sources. Those fuckers, despite their love of press bashing, played the press like a fiddle.

Is there some payback involved here, sure. But if you ever get confused as to who you are talking about, or what good journalism means to modern America, pick up a copy of All The President's Men.

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I understand that you, of all people, know this crisis and, in your own way, are working to address it. You, the madras-pantsed julip-sipping Southern cracker and me, the oldman hippie California fruit cake are brothers in the struggle to save our country.

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Yail Bloor Wrote:
I wish I wasn't so fucking tired/fed up with Bob Woodward cuz this sounds like a fascinating read.


seriously. Daniel Ellsberg, on the other hand, still on motherfuckin point.

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 Post subject: The new Bob Woodward Book
PostPosted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 8:46 pm 
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How does he consistently get all the good scoops?

I smell a vast left wing conspiracy trying to derail our "progress" in the war against Global Jihad.


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 Post subject: Re: The new Bob Woodward Book
PostPosted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 10:35 pm 
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How does he consistently get all the good scoops?

I smell a vast left wing conspiracy trying to derail our "progress" in the war against Global Jihad.


it was the hand jobs.

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 Post subject: Re: The new Bob Woodward Book
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the redworm Wrote:
G-Force Wrote:
How does he consistently get all the good scoops?

I smell a vast left wing conspiracy trying to derail our "progress" in the war against Global Jihad.


it was the hand jobs.


Looks like hand jobs payz, 'cus he 'll rake in millions telling us things career politicians don't wun us to know- again.

Tony Snow already dismissed the book as nothing but Cotton Candy- melts on contact. He forgot that Cotton Candy can be sticky and messy. Reports also indicate that the Whitehouse ordered four advance copies.


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