State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III
by Bob Woodward
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Author: Bob WoodwardEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-09-03
ISBN: 0743272242
Number of pages: 576
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Accessories:
- Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA, 1981-1987
- The Commanders
- Plan of Attack: The Definitive Account of the Decision to Invade Iraq
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Book Review: It would be better as pulp fiction
Summary: 5 Stars
Clearly Woodward can't write fast enough to explain the US debacle in Iraq. Woodward has the sources. Sadly, the facts of misgovernment read like pulp fiction.
Rumsfeld tried to wrest control of the Defense Department from the military. In June, 2001, George Tenant and Cofer Black reported to Condi Rice bin Laden intercepts. They felt the brush-off.
Army Major General 'Spider' Marks was to be top intelligence officer of US forces in Iraq. He found there was almost no ground intelligence. Rotkoff became second on the intelligence staff. Marks and Rotkoff were conditioned to expect WMDs.
The off-year election, 2002, gave Bush the sense of being a popularly elected president. Jay Garner was the first person given postwar responsibility for Iraq. Marks felt he didn't have sufficient time to investigate and Garner felt he didn't have sufficient time to plan. A month before the war, Garner's group identified security as the greatest postwar problem. Someone from the State Department's Future of Iraq Study was drafted and later removed from the Garner group.
Problems in Iraq were widespread and deep. Looting was intense. On April 24th, 2003, Garner was told about the appointment of Bremer. With the coming of Bremer, the US had unemployed soldiers and Baathists as enemies.
After the military failed to find the WMDs, David Kay was drafted to go on the hunt. The president's principal advisors did not speak to each other. For Iraq, Rumsfeld hoped that someone like Karzai, (Afghanistan), would emerge. In January 2004 Kay announced that the WMD had not been found and may not have existed. Intelligence analysts had failed to understand just how deteriorated and corrupted Saddam's regime had become.
Bremer and Sanchez failed to communicate. General Sanchez had been placed in a difficult position. An advisor to the NSC believed the real problem in Iraq was that there weren't enough US troops. Detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib was reported in THE NEW YORKER and on the SIXTY MINUTES television program. The failure of the intelligence services on the WMD issue was studied by a commission headed by Silberman and Robb.
After CPA left, the State Department was to be in charge of the Iraq mission via John Negroponte. What the US soldiers in Iraq most needed were translators. After the re-election of President Bush, the assault on Fallujah took place. Execution and implementation in Iraq were mishandled. The training of the Iraqi army was a disaster. By 2005 there were no strategic thinkers in Iraq and the leaders were divorced from reality.
Notes on sources and the index form the conclusion to this excellent book.
Summary of State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III
Bob Woodward's third # 1 New York Times bestseller on President George W. Bush's wars tells the detailed, behind-the-scenes story of how the Bush administration failed to tell the truth about the Iraq War.Presidents & Heads of State Books
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