WaPo: Card Urged Bush to Replace Rumsfeld, Woodward Says (new revelations)

[grytpype]

Amazing new details from Woodward's new book in this updated WaPo article, near the end.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/29/AR2006092900368.html

Abizaid backed Murtha:

Last March, Gen. John Abizaid, head of the Central Command, met privately with Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.), who had criticized the Bush administration for its approach to Iraq as "a flawed policy wrapped in illusion" and called for withdrawal. Murtha was then attacked by the White House for "endorsing the policy positions of Michael Moore and the extreme liberal wing of the Democratic Party."

According to Murtha, Woodward writes, Abizaid raised his hand for emphasis and held his thumb and forefinger a quarter of an inch from each other and said, "We're that far apart."

Rice blew off Tenet's concerns before 9/11:

Woodward writes that on July 10, 2001, then-CIA director George Tenet became so concerned about the communication intelligence agencies were receiving indicating that a terrorist attack was imminent that he went to the White House with counterterrorism chief J. Cofer Black -- without an appointment -- to meet with Rice, then the national security adviser. He and Black hoped the meeting would alert Rice to the urgency they felt.

But Tenet and Black felt that Rice gave them "the brush-off," according to Woodward, telling them that a plan for coherent action against bin Laden was already in the works. Woodward writes that both Tenet and Black felt the meeting was the starkest warning the White House was given about bin Laden.

Kissinger tells Bush to stay the course or lose public support for the war:

Woodward writes that former secretary of state Henry A. Kissinger has played a key role as an outside adviser to Bush on the Iraq war. Kissinger, according to Woodward, sees the Iraq war through the prism of his own experience in the Nixon administration during Vietnam, and has counseled Bush to "stick it out" and not even entertain the idea of withdrawing troops.

At one point, to emphasize his position, he gave Michael Gerson, then a White House speech writer, a copy of a memo he wrote to Nixon in September, 1969. "Withdrawal of U.S. troops will become like salted peanuts to the American public; the more U.S. troops come home, the more will be demanded," Kissinger wrote.

[Greeby]

1. Whenever evil is to be done, Henry The K inevitably slithers out

:eyes:

[MnFats]

2. can a president be impeached for criminal negligence?

Kissinger's helping out!
KISSINGER!
War criminal! architect of the Christmas bombing of Bach Mai hospital!
Black Hander behind the allende coup!
Murderer!
Who urged the Vietnamese at the peace conference in Paris to hold off until AFTER Johnson left office...promising that Nixon would give them a better deal!

War criminal of war criminal, advising another incredibly self-centered president on how to drive a failed war effort further into the ground...

[DoYouEverWonder]

6. Kissinger is major wacko

and I got that from someone who had him for a teacher in Harvard. Which meant, this fellow ended up getting 'recruited'. Supposedly Kissinger's first book was about how the US would probably survive a nuclear confrontation so it was okay to use nukes. Apparently the people around him finally convinced him it wasn't a good idea to go around espousing this sort of thing.

[RamboLiberal]

3. Important point I see is that Murtha was talking to the Abizaid

and the F'in Repukes painted him as a traitor. It was our own military command who were privately telling him this is the FUBAR or all FUBARs.

I swear if this was a different country we'd have already had a military coup.

Have fun Repukes spinning this one. Snowjob is already trying to say it's nothing but melting cotton candy. Yep and it's sticking all over the WH and the Bush cabal.

Deliciously ironic that last Sunday Chris Wallace had his ass handed to him by Bill Clinton. Proves him right - they did nothing!

This Sunday Big Daddy Mike Wallace is going expose more of the lies and incompetence of the Bush Admin with this Woodward interview.

:kick: & Recommended

[tiptoe]

4. Expect the Chief Deadbeat to take an initiative on his own? Get real.

He needs permission to relieve himself.

[rodeodance]

5. abc did a good segment on this book--including this part

[Tellurian]

7. Well, one things for sure..

The Baker Think Tank consortium hasn't come up with anything acceptable for the Bush/Cheney Cabal's
strategy plans. This must have been the last straw for Poppy if 43 disregarded Baker's advice, instead
"following" Cheney's vision and going with a strategy developed by the maniac Kissinger's distorted mind.

[Virginia Dare]

8. You're right about that...

and I think it will all blow up on him after the elections.

[Tellurian]

11. Looking forward to it..

we've waited for this for a very long time..

[Eurobabe]

9. So what makes this Woodwhored book different

than his other previous BushBrew prattle? Why should be believe this shill?

[Phredicles]

10. This isn't sounding like a shill job.

We'll have to see what the whole book says. But what we're hearing so far doesn't sound very flattering.