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Rochambeau Donating Member (469 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-29-04 02:43 PM
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Bob'Watergate'Woodward : "Bush At War"
Edited on Tue Jun-29-04 02:45 PM by Rochambeau
I've just been offered that book for my birthday (35! ouch!). Any informations about it ?
Thank you. :)
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Wickerman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-29-04 02:43 PM
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1. wow, someone doesn't like you much
Edited on Tue Jun-29-04 02:44 PM by lunabush
is my initial response

edit - Happy Birthday!
:party:
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kiahzero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-29-04 02:44 PM
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2. Bush whitewash
But yet it still has a few things that make you go hmmm, like the quote about Bush not seeing terrorism as an urgent issue (which he then denied saying later, when Clarke pointed it out).
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Zinfandel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-29-04 02:46 PM
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3. Buy the Freepers two tickets to F-9/11!!!
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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-29-04 02:50 PM
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4. I've heard that the book is better than his interviews about it...Depends
Edited on Tue Jun-29-04 02:51 PM by KoKo01
on how much you like to read political books, and how good you are at reading between the lines of what Woodward says. At least that's what a friend of mine said about the book in recommending it to me.

I've not bought it because I'm backed up with the other books.

:party: Happy Birthday!
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stellanoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-29-04 02:53 PM
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5. haven't read it
but from what I've heard the most damning part is that bit about the misappropriated 700 million. . .?

Nothing next to the missing 20 billion in Iraq which has since been revealed. But it was a start, most illegal and swept entirely under the carpet.

The Congress made an undiscernable peep about it when the book was first released. Haven't heard anything since.

Bigger fish to fry. . .get "Worse Than Watergate" by John Dean.

He ought to know.

Rumor control has it that the Plame affair is about to explode. We can only hope.
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kiahzero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-29-04 04:08 PM
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8. You're thinking of "Plan of Attack" (n/t)
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stellanoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-29-04 04:18 PM
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10. whoops. . .you're right
Edited on Tue Jun-29-04 04:19 PM by stellanoir
I stand humbly corrected. His first book about * was a total suck up affair from what I've heard. Though that may have been his strategy at the time. Who knows. . .?
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gasperc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-29-04 02:58 PM
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6. listening to it right now
it is an interesting portrait of events from 9/11 through the Afgan invasion as culled from interviews from the Bush administration. Simutaneously, I am listening to "Worse than Watergate" and the contrast in perspective is stunning. In a sense, I am analyzing Bush at War with critical analysis from John Dean. With that, "Bush at War" is coming across as a very controlled and narrow description of the 9/11 events.
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Rochambeau Donating Member (469 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-29-04 04:08 PM
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7. Ooookayyy....Then I'll ask my wife (who offered it to me)
Edited on Tue Jun-29-04 04:09 PM by Rochambeau
to change it since it's possible. I need something more bloody about Boosh nowadays. Thanx for your advices.
(I'm fourty in five years ?!!?? Are you sure ??!!?? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!)
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-29-04 04:10 PM
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9. Can you cash it in for Paul Krugman's The Great Unraveling?
That's what I just got for my birthday (45! Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeouuuuuuuch!) and it's great!
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