Woodward; Surge Given too much credit
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| Sun, 10-05-2008 - 2:15pm |
Bob Woodward, talking to Bill Mahr on Friday, live via satellite from DC, says "It's dangerous times in foreign affairs and the economy...says that Bush43 is disengaged from Iraq war as soldiers attacked and killed.
But here's the kicker...Woodward could not elaborate for security reasons, but said that sources that "leveled with him" said:
(("It's not the surge, if you look at the numbers and the very dramatic drop-off in violence, it's so sudden, uh, something had to happen and it turns out it's these highly classified operations, which the WH in a statement after the book came did confirm and said there were newly developed, uh, techniques and operations and some day decades from now, uh, the story can be told",but that's really what's lowered violence and brought about a, uh, conditions in Iraq that are much more stable."))
So,the sudden reduction in the violence in Iraq did not happen solely because of the surge, as McCain and Palin want you to think! As Obama and Biden have said, the surge helped, along with other conditions, which Bob Woodward confirmed.
Now, maybe McCain will focus on what is happening NOW in America and not what happened in this unnecessary war over 2 yrs ago. Who's living in the past, Palin?
http://www.bobwoodward.com/About/
Bob Woodward has worked for The Washington Post since 1971. He has won nearly every American journalism award, and the Post won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for his work with Carl Bernstein on the Watergate scandal. In addition, Woodward was the main reporter for the Post’s articles on the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks that won the National Affairs Pulitzer Prize in 2002. Woodward won the Gerald R. Ford Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency in 2003. The Weekly Standard called Woodward “the best pure reporter of his generation, perhaps ever.†In 2003, Albert Hunt of The Wall Street Journal called Woodward “the most celebrated journalist of our age.†In 2004, Bob Schieffer of CBS News said, “Woodward has established himself as the best reporter of our time. He may be the best reporter of all time.â€
Woodward has co-authored or authored eleven #1 national best-selling non-fiction books --- more than any contemporary American writer. They are:
All the President’s Men (1974) and The Final Days (1976), both Watergate books, co-authored with Bernstein
The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court (1979), co-authored with Scott Armstrong
Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi (1984)
Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981-1987 (1987)
The Commanders (1991) on the first Bush administration and the Gulf War
The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House (1994)
Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate (1999)
Bush at War (2002)
Plan of Attack (2004)
State of Denial:Bush at War Part III(2006)
Woodward’s other three books, The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate’s Deep Throat (2005), The Choice (1996) on the presidential election, and Maestro: Greenspan’s Fed and the American Boom (2000), were national best-sellers for months.


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