Bob Woodward: Bush Misleads On Iraq

[sabra]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/09/28/60minutes/main2047607.shtml

Bob Woodward: Bush Misleads On Iraq
Tells 60 Minutes' Mike Wallace Kissinger Is Regular Visitor To White House

(CBS) Veteran Washington reporter Bob Woodward tells Mike Wallace that the Bush administration has not told the truth regarding the level of violence, especially against U.S. troops, in Iraq. He also reveals key intelligence that predicts the insurgency will grow worse next year.

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The situation is getting much worse, says Woodward, despite what the White House and the Pentagon are saying in public. "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 , 'Oh, no, things are going to get better,'" he tells Wallace. "Now there’s public, and then there’s private. But what did they do with the private? They stamp it secret. No one is supposed to know," says Woodward.

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Woodward also reports that the president and vice president often meet with Henry Kissinger, who was President Richard Nixon’s secretary of state, as an adviser. Says Woodward, "Now what’s Kissinger’s advice? In Iraq, he declared very simply, ‘Victory is the only meaningful exit strategy.'" Woodward adds. "This is so fascinating. Kissinger’s fighting the Vietnam War again because, in his view, the problem in Vietnam was we lost our will."

President Bush is absolutely certain that he has the U.S. and Iraq on the right course, says Woodward. So certain is the president on this matter, Woodward says, that when Mr. Bush had key Republicans to the White House to discuss Iraq, he told them, "I will not withdraw, even if Laura and Barney are the only ones supporting me."

[CJCRANE]

1. What if it's just Barney?

(supporting *)

[Frances]

2. Thanks for the laugh. I needed that.

What happened to Bob Woodward? Did he stop drinking the kool-aid?

[calimary]

28. Maybe old bob woodshed sees a need to play both sides at the

moment. Maybe he thinks the dynamics in Washington are changing and it's time to hedge his bets. Probably because he recognizes that OUR book-buying money spends as well as any republi-CONS' money does, and he does need those all-important book sales, doesn't he? It's just not very smart to keep alienating at least half (if not more) of your potential fan/client base.

[AngryOldDem]

11. I wouldn't even count on Barney

[RamboLiberal]

3. Yeah Bob and you and Judith Miller and all the other

f'in inside the beltway "journalists" who forgot what the job of a journalist is supposed to be f'in were "The Enablers".

Time for you to retire!

[Beausoir]

4. Woodward is a tool. He was carrying water for this band of liars for

years.

He makes me sick.

[acmavm]

5. Way too late Bobby. You sold out long ago. And you sold

us out way back then as well.

[KansDem]

6. "...Kissinger Is Regular Visitor To White House"

Isn't this the only place he can go without being arrested as a war criminal?

Manhattan’s Milosevic
How You Can Do What the Government Won’t: Arrest Henry Kissinger>

[WCGreen]

7. The blood of the lost soldiers lies on your hands BW......

[truthisfreedom]

8. henry's fighting Vietnam again...

how wonderful! no wonder it feels just like 1970. i'm so lucky to be living in such "doomed to repeat it" times.

[wisteria]

9. Well between Bush not being able to form complete sentences

and Kissinger never mastering clear english, the accuracy of the discussions must be questioned. Especially since Chaney is doing the interpreting.

[deutsey]

10. Thanks for that news flash, Bob

:eyes:

[Supersedeas]

12. Kissinger...(where is Condi)...the self proclaim Soviet expert and current

Secretary of State

[stanwyck]

13. Add him to the list of "Omigod, I'm losing my career!"

desperados who are sniffing the air and crab walking away from their past warmonger rhetoric.
Notice how even Scarborough and O'Reilly are abandoning the attack dog tactics against liberals? They're trying out their "rational newsman" personas. Their audiences are getting older, poorer and dumber while the juicy markets goes to Olberman and Stewart.
Too late.
And too late for war cheerleader Bruce Willis, who attempted to revive his sagging career last week with "concerns" about the war.
Too late for Harvey Keitel who took part in a nasty hit on the Clinton administration with "Path to 9-11". Read the script, Harvey.
Woodward is a real hack. Remember his obsequious worship of Bush after 9-11? He was all over the TV, gushing over his new crush.
Whore.

[NoSunWithoutShadow]

32. Yes indeed, Woody, whore of the century

(From the greatly missed Media Whores Online.)

[chieftain]

14. Woodward jumping ship coupled with Howard Fineman's

remarks on Keith the other night vouching for Clinton's recitation of facts regarding Bin Laden are sure signs that W has jumped the shark.

[grasswire]

15. there's a comments section below the article...

...and some of the comments here deserve to be posted there!

[arewenotdemo]

16. words fail me

Kissinger should have been hung for war crimes long, long ago.

[Jacobin]

17. Kissinger!!!!! Oh My Gawd

Kissinger is trying to re-fight the Viet Nam debacle. No wonder the parallels are so amazing.

That senile old war criminal can't even go to Europe because of warrants for his arrest for war crimes, and this doddering fool is telling Smirk and Cheney to keep it up?


I don't know whether to *&*& or go blind.

:arg:

[InkAddict]

24. "Aspens are Turning" and "Autumn Leaves" w/Henry Lurking

http://www.newint.org/issue360/worldbeaters.htm

And this is when those credentials get a little soiled. Bremer is known to have sat on at least one committee with Colonel Oliver North, the most prominent member of a semi-official conspiracy in the US to fund the Contra paramilitaries in Nicaragua with money laundered from illegal arms sales to Iran.

Bremer was at the helm of counter-terrorism in 1988 when Pam Am flight 103 was blown out of the sky over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 259 people. ‘Mr Bremer is at the top of the list of administrators, officials and executives who should be in jail by now,’ says Marina de Larracoechea, whose daughter was killed in the disaster. ‘Lockerbie was an expected and preventable massacre. Appointing him is a guaranteed formula for ineptitude, ignorance and disaster.’

Bremer’s ‘can-do’ reputation took a boost, nonetheless, when he followed Henry Kissinger – his boss at the State Department – to become chief operating officer at Kissinger & Associates in 1989. Here he pursued his interest in terrorism and other ‘risks’ to corporate America, including trade unions. ‘If President Clinton means to get serious about the fight against terrorism,’ he wrote in the Wall Street Journal on 5 August 1996, ‘he should leave the White House Press Room and head downstairs to the basement Situation Room.’ The ‘Situation Room’ is where Presidents fight their real wars.

Increasingly revered as some sort of seer, Bremer became chair of the National Commission on Terrorism which reported to Congress on 8 June 2000. The Commission recommended, among other things, the reversal of the CIA’s policy of not employing known human-rights abusers as agents. ‘The threat of terrorism is changing dramatically,’ he warned. ‘It is becoming more deadly and it is striking us here at home.’

On 11 September 2001 a casual observer might have drawn two quite opposite conclusions about Bremer: either that he had admirable foresight, or that he can’t have been much good at his job. The former view of him prevailed in Washington – and proved very profitable for Bremer himself. He became Chair and Chief Executive Officer of Marsh Crisis Consulting, a subsidiary of the giant Marsh & McLennan conglomerate, hiring out his reputation to jittery corporations.

Despite his close association with Henry Kissinger – who was forced to withdraw from leading the inquiry into ‘9/11’ because of ‘conflicts of interest’ – Bremer co-chaired the right-wing Heritage Foundation’s ‘Homeland Security Task Force’. The Task Force is credited with having inspired the creation of the US Office of Homeland Security and the curtailment of rights in the US that has come with it.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_theories_into_the_bombing_of_Pan_Am_Flight_103#Iran.2C_the_PFLP-GC.2C_and_operation_Autumn_Leaves

Iran, the PFLP-GC, and operation Autumn Leaves

Also here:

http://billmon.org/archives/000092.html

[Hosnon]

18. I wonder why he's decided to pipe up all of the sudden...? nt

[heliarc]

19. That's what I'm saying.

Bob Woodward has spook written all over him. I wouldn't be surprised if this was part of some directive from somewhere within the intelligence community. They are quite at odds with this administration, and it may be some sort of movement from within... Just a hunch.

[Disturbed]

20. " I wonder why he's decided to pipe up all of the sudden...?

He has a new book for sale.

[wellst0nev0ter]

21. Bush Misleads On Eye-Rack? Well Shit On Me And Call Me A Sundae!

All the lies were public knowledge before the war, Woodward you asshole. Instead you decide to cover the Bush administration's ass when they leaked Valerie Plame's name. Maybe if you stopped being so fucking vague and detail how the fuck Eye-Rack is worse than it possibly is (like that's possible) and burn all your self-interested sources if you have to. Until you do, you'll never be more than a hack and a bushtard.

[fshrink]

22. "I" will not withdraw tells pretty much the whole story. nt

[IndianaGreen]

34. It tells me that people will continue to die until at least January 2009

How many will die because of a mistake?

[shrike]

23. Too f**kin' late, ***hole

You're a traitor, the worst kind.

[BigDDem]

25. Kissinger??? Oh, great idea

maybe they could borrow Nancy Reagan's psychic and channel Nixon
for some advice.

[ShortnFiery]

26. Nixon is rolling over in his grave in sequence with The Nazis of

the 1930s exclaiming, "You beautiful bastards! We could only DREAM of what you have now been able to do, wiretap, spy and detain ANYONE indefinitely." :wow:

Oh, "Tricky Dick" Nixon is one jealous spirit during the week our Democracy has died. :grr:

[Straight Shooter]

27. "Death by plane" Kissinger?

Yes, I imagine the advice he gives is quite sane and rational.

:sarcasm:

I wonder if he dreams of pushing people who dissent on Iraq out of airplanes.

[RedSock]

29. just another bush stenographer

just another bush stenographer/right-wing whore.

buh-bye bobby.

[hatrack]

30. Fuck you, Bob. Hope you die soon, right after your book bombs.

I think that's all I really need to say.

[gizmo1979]

31. Why is Woodward sucking up now?

After throwing us under the bus during Plamegate he comes back and starts telling us Bush is lying?Well duh!Anyone who reads the papers can tell it's getting much worse.All the lipstick this administration has tried to put on this pig there must be somekind of lipstick shortage?

[leesa]

33. Well, gee Bob...you helped him.

Getting a little senile, are we?

[lovuian]

35. Bob tell us something we didn't know... Your just catching up

to that you were a traitor to america

[Strawman]

36. lets just eliminate the intelligence budget then

let's just save billions and not generate intelligence, reports, strategic assessments of the situation etc. since they don't matter at all to the the decider-in-chief.

"So certain is the president on this matter, Woodward says, that when Mr. Bush had key Republicans to the White House to discuss Iraq, he told them, "I will not withdraw, even if Laura and Barney are the only ones supporting me."

that is not admirable. that is not leadership.