Support AlterNet
Do you value the information you're getting from AlterNet? Please show your support with a tax-deductible donation.
Feedback
Tell us how we're doing.
Woodward: Bush Said His Iran Strategy Was "They're A**holes"
There's been so much going on with the campaign lately that I hadn't paid much attention to Bob Woodward's newest book, The War Within.
Recently Woodward was on Real Time with Bill Maher and he relayed a couple of interesting items.
First, he said that during White House discussions on Iran, a senior military leader asked Bush what his strategy was. Bush's answer? "They're assholes." Just gives you a sense as to how crude and clueless our current president is, and how desperately we need a change.
Second -- and this was really interesting -- he maintained that the surge was not the cause of the decrease in violence in Iraq. Instead, Woodward said a covert program run by the U.S. military was the primary reason for the decrease in violence. Woodward didn't get specific, but it basically sounded like a targeted assassinations program.
According to Woodward, the administration has confirmed his account. Seems like that might be something for McCain to ponder the next time he wants to say that the surge is the defining reason he ought to be elected president.
| Also in Video | |||
| Glenn Beck Dividing U.S. into 7 Parts ... Will Offer Americans Right-Wing Education 9/12 movement spreads its pernicious tentacles. Post by Staff. November 23, 2009. |
What Sarah Palin's "Jewish people will be flocking to Israel" prediction really means Palin's associated with a religious tendency whose leaders promote anti-Jewish conspiracy theory Post by Bruce Wilson. November 21, 2009. |
Hmmm ... Why Do So Many Wingnuts Have Such an Obsessive Fear of Being Raped? It's all they can talk about in the right-wing media. Post by Staff. November 20, 2009. |
|
EMAIL
PRINT
13 COMMENTS
PERMALINK