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"The War Within" by Bob Woodward

The War Within - Though I haven read a book of this type in many years, I really enjoyed this one. Woodward reveals strategies governing the war in Iraq coming directly from President Bush and his inner circle. It is a damning conclusion about the presidency of George W. Bush. It’s a picture of an administration riven by internal conflicts, an administration in which the advice of experts was frequently ignored or dismissed, traditional policy-making channels were routinely circumvented, policy often took a backseat to electoral politics, accountability was repeatedly evaded, and few advisers dared speak truth to power. I found it to be extremely well researched and written as only Bob Woodward can do. I give it [5-Stars]


DESCRIPTION: The War Within takes you deep inside the White House, the Pentagon, the State Department, the intelligence agencies and the U.S. military headquarters in Iraq. Based on extensive interviews with participants, contemporaneous notes and secret documents, the book traces the internal debates, tensions and critical turning points in the Iraq War during an extraordinary two-year period.


Master Post Date: 09/29/2008; 7:36am

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