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 /

[Donnachaidh]

1. Woodward may be speaking truth, but ain't it convenient

he just HAPPENS to have a book for sale?:sarcasm:

[indepat]

2. May Woodward rot in a place appropriate to his actions

[Montauk6]

6. Well, I will say it's hard telling him from William Kristol these days

[indepat]

7. Damn, do they share some ancestors?

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3. Regardless of book, the message should stay kicked thru the election...!

Olberman should run with this.

[havocmom]

4. Worried that, in trying to cover up how bad things are,

junta keeps making things worse for our troops so there are fewer witnesses to come home and tell the nation what is really going one.

Am I saying bush/cheney have a vested interested in making sure we have more causalities? Why, I believe I am. The lives of the many mean nothing to the cowards trying to protect there own Chicken Hawk Yellow Asses.

Besides, less vets at the end of it all means less money needed for care of veterans. Bottom lines are important to the neocons. They could save some more of their precious tax cut if there are fewer people to care for.

[BOSSHOG]

5. I could not have said it better myself - THANK YOU!

the republican party and its supporters DO NOT care about our troops and the hell they are going through. If they die, well there's one less pension to pay, one less VA hospital bed to be occupied. Chickenhawks can only act brave.

Alert for the next talking point. More people die every 15 minutes in car wreck then our troops in Iraq.

No doubt they are so saddened that General Batiste is alive and kicking.

[ninkasi]

8. That's the truth

You say "the republican party and its supporters DO NOT care about our troops and the hell they are going through. If they die, well there's one less pension to pay, one less VA hospital bed to be occupied. Chickenhawks can only act brave."

That's one of the reasons that when anybody points out that if the U.S. allows torture of suspected terrorists, then our troops will face torture themselves if they are captured. Bush and Cheney realize that our policies on torture and secret trials and removal of habeas corpus make the treatment of our own soldiers subject to the same treatment, but they don't care. They truly don't give a rat's ass if our troops are mistreated, or held without charges. It's not in them to care.

Gathering more and more power for the executive branch of government, and protecting them from punishment as war criminals is their agenda right now. The killing, the torture, the maiming, and horror of war are things they can dismiss, because they will never face any of those things, nor will their families.

The suffering will be done by us, the middle and poor classes. The neocon elite seize more and more power, and grow richer and richer, and all of the pain and suffering in the world will not move them to pity, or compassion. No doubt the Marquis de Sade and Cheney would have many interesting stories to tell, and they would be instant friends.