Woodward: Bush,covering up extent of violence against U.S. troops in Iraq

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According to Woodward, insurgent attacks against coalition troops occur, on average, every 15 minutes, a shocking fact the administration has kept secret. “It’s getting to the point now where there are eight-, nine-hundred attacks a week. That’s more than 100 a day. That is four an hour attacking our forces,” says Woodward.

Intelligence shows Iraq violence will worsen in 2007:

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.
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/28/woodward-book/

[PuraVidaDreamin]

1. Part of me wants to say 'too little, too late bobby'

Man they are gonna push women and children out
of the way to jump this ship, eh?

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2. This Woodward message could never be too late!

[maxsolomon]

3. don't worry, the shia death squads will kill the sunni insurgents for us!

negroponte's got it all under control. at the rate they're going, there won't be many sunni men left in bagdhad by the end of the year.

way to go, "adults in charge".

:puke: :sarcasm:

[Vinca]

4. Woodward has been a White House lapdog.

If he's breaking rank it's only to sell a book.