Andy Card, the President Bush’s former chief of staff, has recently said the Bush presidency will be judged by three things: “Iraq, Iraq, Iraq.” Bob Woodward, of Watergate fame, has just completed his third book from the series on the Bush presidency, “State of Denial.”
The writer has spent more than two years on creation of this book. He has interviewed more than 200 people including most of the top administration officials and came to the conclusion: for the last three years the White house has not been honest with the American public. Woodward concludes: "It is the oldest story in the coverage of government: the failure to tell the truth”. ... read moreWhen he was asked to explain what he means that the Bush administration has not told the whole truth about Iraq, Woodward says, "I think probably the prominent, most prominent example is the level of violence." Woodward says that’s the most important measure of violence in Iraq, and he reveals a secret, that shows those attacks have increased over the last three years.
Woodward accuses President Bush and the Pentagon of making false claims of progress in Iraq – claims, contradicted by facts that are being kept secret and are not shown to anyone.
"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 [saying], ’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.
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