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2010-09-22 Home Front: Politix

Woodward book details Obama battles with advisers over exit plan for Afghan war

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Posted by Steve White 2010-09-22 07:58|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 In any Presidency you will have infighting as people try to get their views followed on very important matters. This leads to disgruntled folks talking to Woodward who became a bottom feeder during the George W. Bush years.

I may agree with the disgruntled this time (seems a lot of military in there), I may be happy that Woodward is sticking the shiv into both parties, but I still think this kind of journalism is pathetic because in most cases the other side can't even comment back because they are still "inside" the government.

Posted by rjschwarz 2010-09-22 09:32|| 2010-09-22 09:32|| Front Page Top

#2 ...in most cases the other side can't even comment back because they are still "inside" the government.

Unless you're the CIA and it's called leaking.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-09-22 10:03|| 2010-09-22 10:03|| Front Page Top

#3 what is most disconcerting is their fatalistic advance acceptance of another terror atack on US soil. I mean, it'll prolly be just the little people ('proles') that get killed, right? And in teh meantime he can continue on his apology tours, bowing and scraping to our enemies. *spit*

Posted by Frank G 2010-09-22 10:05|| 2010-09-22 10:05|| Front Page Top

#4 Woodward who became a bottom feeder during the George W. Bush years.

Man, Woodward went bottom feeder in the George H.W. Bush years. If not earlier.

Posted by Mitch H. 2010-09-22 10:14|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/ 2010-09-22 10:14|| Front Page Top

#5 Frank -- "We can absorb another terrorist attack" ought to make a great campaign slogan for 2012, no?

I want to see that plastered on every billboard in America. Signed, President Prissypants

Posted by Infidel 2010-09-22 10:31|| 2010-09-22 10:31|| Front Page Top

#6 Imaam Hussien has released or delayed the trial of every terrorist and now we find out he is battling America's Generals regarding to stop the war against them. PERIOD.

Posted by wr 2010-09-22 13:25|| 2010-09-22 13:25|| Front Page Top

#7 ABC News: Bob Woodward: Obama Determined To Find Afghanistan Exit Strategy
I'm sure Obama would find his strategy in Juarez, but only if he visited the place alone, unarmed & after dark.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-09-22 14:07|| 2010-09-22 14:07|| Front Page Top

#8 The Weekly Standard's blog has a pre-review (scroll down to 11:21 a.m. Sept.22), based not on the book itself, but on Mr. Woodward's pattern of behaviour. The key word detumescence is utterly delicious in this context.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-09-22 15:08|| 2010-09-22 15:08|| Front Page Top

#9 Limp as a windsock

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[Bush] was asked to summarize the contribution made by his secretary of state, Colin Powell, to the war in Afghanistan. "Powell is a diplomat," Bush said mildly, "and you've got to have a diplomat. . . . He is a diplomatic person who has got war experience."

The praise was notable for how faint it was; dismissive, almost, and revealing in the inadvertent way that Woodward's books always are. Bush is a self-confident man--self-confident enough to denigrate, slyly and publicly, the veteran public servant who sits as his secretary of state.

43 is a good judge of character.

Posted by KBK 2010-09-22 23:52|| 2010-09-22 23:52|| Front Page Top

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