Letters to the Editor
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Woodward is an impostor....
You know what's funny, in a dark way, about this whole war in Iraq thing?..Anybody and everybody who had anything to do with this whole supporting the war in Iraq business... They are all trying to wash their hands off this mess hoping their conscience wont bother them in the future, as well historians wont brand them as impostors. Nobody worth their salt tried to ask the serious and hard questions before the war, so that needless lives wouldnt be lost on both sides. Woodward went down and fellated this administration until he milked them of all "access" he could to sell his books, and his soul. And now he is being patted on the back by the so called Dems for his "mea culpa", by way of publishing this "damning" book...but the way I see it, he is only thinking of his legacy, not really about his country
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Review in Huffington Post makes a good point
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/woodward-as-journalistic-_b_30769.html
Bob Woodward is getting the journalistic hero treatment for "State of Denial," his self-revising reassessment of the Bush administration's handling of Iraq -- including a cover plug from Newsweek (which called him "the best excavator of inside stories in the nation's capital") and a laudatory lead story segment on "60 Minutes".
Talk about being in a state of denial: praising Woodward for his very-late-to-the-party Iraq pile-on is like a music critic writing a rave of "Let It Be" and getting credit for discovering The Beatles. Or, more fitting, having someone be the 100th -- or is 100,000th? -- person to call 911 to report a car crash and then getting credit for alerting the authorities.
Click on link above to read the entire review.
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When did Woodward go all shitty on 'em?
Next to Jeff Gannon, Woodward was the Bush administration's favorite punk. What happened?
Yes, it could be that he's just another ass-kissing sycophant who senses a change in wind direction. OR it could be that this book just writes itself. I mean, not since Nixon has Woodward had such a broad and ludicrous target in his sights.
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Doesn't matter what you think of Woodward
I don't really care who finally gets the message through to the American public about the ride they've been taken for, as long as the message gets through.
Honestly, does it really matter who gets the credit for the story? The only thing that matters is that the cancer that is the Bush admistration is neutered and removed as quickly as possible, both to minimize any further damage it might do and so our nation can begin healing itself.
-Jeremy
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The fall guy?
Yep, big-ups to Bob for "proving" the blindingly obvious.
Interesting that it appears to have given Bush just a light touch-up and almost entirely ignores Cheney - is Rummy set to take the fall for the whole Iraq debacle?
If that is the case then he obviously deserves to go, and should have been replaced well before now, but the question is whether it will be enough of a sacrifice, or will the VP and POTUS still be held to account for their deception and incompetence... seeeeeeeef.
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Woddward's CYA
Good for Bob, finally figuring out what everybody else alreday knew.
After doing so many blowjobs this is his attempt to wipe W's load off his chops, of course only once it was safe to do so.
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The Missouri???
I never knew the Missouri had a flight deck!
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uss missouri
the mo was a battleship, decomissioned in '92. commander codpiece did his "flight suit" bullshit on the Lincoln, a carrier that had been delayed off the coast of San Diego just to provide a photo op for the phony prick. Over 22,000 American casualties since widdle georgie strutted his stuff. Mission Accomplished. Helluva job, Brownie. What a pack of jackals.
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We Report You Decide
Woodward writes:
Bush "thanked Bandar for what the Saudis were doing on oil -- essentially flooding the market and trying to keep the price as low as possible. [Bush] expressed appreciation for the policy and the impact it could have during the election year."
It's about a month to the election, and the price of oil is falling.
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It doesn't matter
There is no good outcome to the Iraq war; the US is denying Habeas Corpus to non-citizens; they dance around torture, wanting to do it while pretending they don't; the middle east roadmap is nothing more than a rut; the US's standing in the world is as low as it has been for decades. But does any of this matter in the long run? World affairs will go on.
The real story about the Bush administration is the economy. On an acrual accounting basis the US is bankrupt. Record budget and current account deficits. Massive foreign debt. Negative savings rate. Personal household debt that stands at 125% of income, a record. As one economist said, "when things can't go on forever, they will stop." And when this wild spending spree by both the government and consumers has to stop, the results will not be pretty.
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Whoa There: It does matter what you think of Woodward
I am disheartened to see that this 'voice of journalistic authority' commands the buzz that he and his book have been receiving. I mean where has this guy been for the last six (or is it 36) years? My cynical sense says to me that Woodward knows that Bush et al is a sunk ship, time to ingratiate and align myself with the changing of the guard. Oh, and I can sell alot of books now by telling people what they have known for years. I am reminded of favorite authors who resort to a pot boiler to keep the creditors at bay. The work is entertaining, just not very important. Of course, I am happy that the talking heads will blare this at us for awhile, it may even reenforce the notion that this administration is beyond corrupt and self serving, but it misses the point. Truth has become the victim in this obfuscating war of ideas and events. Bob Woodard may not have plunged the knife for the killing blow, but he certainly was and is an accomplice. Et tu Bobby?
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Salon and Woodward
I read Salon daily, and it's always amongst my best sources of good information.
But this latest piece on Woodward makes me a little uneasy. For a long time now,
Woodward has been writing pro-Bush tomes and getting slammed by the left. Now,
he writes something critical and everyone is jumping on the "Woodward is Great"
bandwagon. While everything he writes in "Denial" may be true, it makes us look
bad to react to him positively only when he dogs out the president.
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