Bob Woodward' s "Sate of Denial"

Salio en Semana y en Newsweek y me imagino que en muchos otros periodicos... sip..lemonde.fr tambien habla del libro... sobre How Bush Deceived Public on Iraq...y como sigue mintiendo sobre la situacion...

"Bob Woodward, el periodista que destapó el escándalo de Watergate, conmociona a Estados Unidos y al mundo al revelar la dimensión de las mentiras de Bush sobre la guerra de Irak."

"Como han comentado varios medios, el libro de Woodward sorprende más por los detalles que por el fondo del asunto, que ya venía gravitando sobre la conciencia colectiva de los norteamericanos"

"Es que el gobierno de George W. Bush atraviesa una crisis de credibilidad tal, que ya no son pocos los observadores que se atreven a decir, sin pudor alguno, que es el peor Presidente de los 43 que ha tenido la Unión Norteamericana. Desde el final de su primer período ya se habían alzado voces para cuestionar no sólo las capacidades intelectuales del hombre más poderoso del planeta, sino una preocupante liviandad a la hora de asumir sus responsabilidades."

"Algunos apartes del libro, publicados por la revista Newsweek, han resultado una bomba en el mundo entero."

(link articulo semana --> cliqueese aqui)

y aqui pongo un extracto del extracto de Newsweek, just so you read .. y vean como se manejo el asunto de iraq con bush.. y eso que ahi no se nota tanto como a bush le importaba un pepino las decisiones q se hacian con iraq, como si nada..

"Garner came back to the U.S. in June and basically hid out for a couple of weeks, not wanting to see anyone at the Pentagon or talk about his experience in Iraq. Finally, on June 18, 2003, alone with Rumsfeld around the small table in the secretary’s office, Garner felt he had an obligation to state the depths of his concerns.

“We’ve made three tragic decisions,” Garner said.

“Really?” Rumsfeld said.

“Three terrible mistakes,” Garner said. He cited the extent of the de-Baathification, getting rid of the army, and summarily dumping the Iraqi leadership group. Disbanding the military had been the biggest mistake. Now there were hundreds of thousands of disorganized, unemployed, armed Iraqis running around. Garner made his final point: “There’s still time to rectify this. There’s still time to turn it around.”

Rumsfeld looked at Garner for a moment with his take-no-prisoners gaze. “Well,” he said, “I don’t think there is anything we can do, because we are where we are.”

Rumsfeld and Garner went to the White House to see Bush. It was Garner’s second time with the president. “Mr. President, let me tell you a couple of stories,” Garner said. Describing meetings with Iraqis, Garner painted a positive picture. “I’d get ready to leave,” Garner said, “and this is true—as I leave they’re all thumbs-up and they’d say, ‘God bless Mr. George Bush and Mr. Tony Blair. Thank you for taking away Saddam Hussein.’ That was in 70 meetings. That always was the final response.”

“Oh, that’s good,” Bush said.

On the way out, Bush slapped Garner on the back. “Hey Jay, you want to do Iran?”

“Sir, the boys and I talked about that and we want to hold out for Cuba. We think the rum and the cigars are a little better … The women are prettier.”

Bush laughed. “You got it. You got Cuba.”

Of course with all the stories, jocularity, buddy-buddy talk, bluster and confidence in the Oval Office, Garner had left out the headline. He had not mentioned the problems he saw, or even hinted at them. He did not tell Bush about the three tragic mistakes. Once again the aura of the presidency had shut out the most important news—the bad news. "

el link es el siguiente: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15075326/site/newsweek/

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