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Monday, June 6, 2011

Review 59: Bush At War (Bob Woodward)

Woodward is clearly biased; his tone is cynical. This detracts from any sense of objectivity. In the foreward he claims all his sources are documented, but I would have like to seen that documentation. Much of the first half of this book reads like gossip. Most of the details in the beginning of the book are not revelations; in fact, they are brief to a fault. However, as the book goes on it does contain several revelations: the most disturbing being Colin Powell's (the only true moderate) ostracization; the most surprising: how bad things were going at first in Afghanistan. The biggest alarm for me: how, almost at the instant of the 9/11 attacks, Bush and his aides were bent on war. War is the key term of this book. This strikes me as reckless, a lust for blood and revenge.

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