"In the early 1970s, young investigative reporter Bob Woodward at The Washington Post, along with colleague Carl Bernstein, helped take down a president fighting an unpopular war. Now more than 30 years later is history repeating?
The reporter, 63, and assistant managing editor of The Washington Post but with his own full-time staff to produce nonfiction blockbusters, has rocked the George W. Bush administration with his new book, State of Denial. It was officially released yesterday but it is already on its third print run. More than 900,000 copies have been printed.
Unlike more sympathetic portrayals in his first two books on the administration, Bush at War (2002) and Plan of Attack (2004), his latest - at more than 550 pages - portrays an administration divided to the point of dysfunction, headed by an incurious President, denying to himself and the American public just how seriously off the rails the administration's war in Iraq has gone."
So begins an article by the Washington correspondent of The Australian. It's an interesting take on how things stand in Washington just 5 weeks before the mid-term Congressional elections.
Perhaps this summarises it all:
"......Stephen Hadley, Bush's National Security Adviser, is quoted in State of Denial as telling a colleague in October 2005: "I've got to help this President get through what is going to be a really rugged three years. And if the Democrats take over the House and the Senate it's going to be unbelievable after 2006."
The reporter, 63, and assistant managing editor of The Washington Post but with his own full-time staff to produce nonfiction blockbusters, has rocked the George W. Bush administration with his new book, State of Denial. It was officially released yesterday but it is already on its third print run. More than 900,000 copies have been printed.
Unlike more sympathetic portrayals in his first two books on the administration, Bush at War (2002) and Plan of Attack (2004), his latest - at more than 550 pages - portrays an administration divided to the point of dysfunction, headed by an incurious President, denying to himself and the American public just how seriously off the rails the administration's war in Iraq has gone."
So begins an article by the Washington correspondent of The Australian. It's an interesting take on how things stand in Washington just 5 weeks before the mid-term Congressional elections.
Perhaps this summarises it all:
"......Stephen Hadley, Bush's National Security Adviser, is quoted in State of Denial as telling a colleague in October 2005: "I've got to help this President get through what is going to be a really rugged three years. And if the Democrats take over the House and the Senate it's going to be unbelievable after 2006."
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