Woodward's New Book - Plan of Attack - Description from Amazon

[RamboLiberal]

FWIW. Remember Woodward is on this Sunday's 60 Minutes. I have no clue how this book will treat the Bushies.

A landmark book by the author of nine #1 national nonfiction bestsellers.

Plan of Attack is the definitive account of a turning point in history as President George W. Bush, his war council, and allies launch a preemptive attack on Iraq, toppling Saddam Hussein and taking over the country. From in-depth interviews and documents, Bob Woodward provides an authoritative narrative of the Administration's behind-the-scenes maneuvering over two years and examines the causes and consequences of the most controversial war since Vietnam.

What emerges is an astonishingly intimate portrait of the President, Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Colin Powell, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, CIA Director George Tenet, General Tommy Franks, other members of the war council and the White House staff, as well as key foreign leaders ranging from British Prime Minister Blair to Russian President Putin.

Plan of Attack relates the how and the why of decision making-including the secret meetings, secure phone calls, strategies, dilemmas, conflicts, and the raw emotions of war as they are rarely seen in contemporary history.



http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/074325547X/qid=1081882867/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/104-4604057-0894336?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

[GainesT1958]

1. We can only hope it won't be the "boot-lickers' delight"...

That his farce "Bush at War" was!:puke:

Of course, that book DID help him win MWO's Whore of the Year award!:eyes:

B-)

[salin]

3. this amazon advance blurb... suggests its another fawn fest.

an intimate look at the big players in this adminstration (swoon! swoon!) blech.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

7. well for one thing the blurb says TWO years planning not THREE

so there's our first clue

[Catholic Sensation]

16. depends

if it means two years before the actual war, then it would make sense, since Bush came to office in January 2001, two years before the war.

if it means two years before the release year of the book, Woodward is, to quote Jim Belushi when talking about Woodward, "an asshole."

[Democat]

2. Probably another ass kissing book from Woodward

He's gone to the other side.

[wryter2000]

4. BOMC

It's available from Book of the Month Club.

[CatWoman]

5. http://www.tnr.com/etc.mhtml?pid=1514

BOB WOODWARD'S SECRET PLAN TO SAVE THE COUNTRY: For years Bob Woodward has looked to the journalistic community like a professional shill--buying incredible access to top officials with the implicit promise of hagiographic treatment in his prose. But it turns out that Woodward was a step ahead of us all along--executing a long-planned strategy of maximizing his influence over American politics, at which point he would cash in his chits for the sake of the republic. What I have in mind here is Woodward's forthcoming book on the war on terror, which will apparently be highly critical of George W. Bush at a time when Bush can least afford it. Here's how Lloyd Grove sums it up today:
I hear that "Plan of Attack," supersleuth Bob Woodward's still-secret study of President Bush's war on terrorism, will be very bad for the Bush reelection campaign - which is still reeling from gun-toting former terrorism chief Richard A. Clarke's critique of Bush, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and other administration figures in "Against All Enemies."

Woodward's book, to be released next month, will receive not only a multipart series in The Washington Post, but also the Mike Wallace treatment on "60 Minutes" April 18 - when I am absolutely confident that the common corporate ownership of CBS and Woodward's publisher, Simon & Schuster, will be mentioned.
Wow. Maybe all those Commanders and Maestros and Bush-at-Wars were worth it after all...

[PROGRESSIVE1]

8. Do you really think that Woodward will show Bush as the scum that...

he is???

[tom_paine]

9. I hope you're right, CatWoman

But I have a hard time at seeing a Bloated Media Whore like Woodward taking a chance like that at this late date.

maybe I'm wrong and he'll surprise us.

[CatWoman]

12. see also Lloyd Grove

Fit of conniption: I hear that "Plan of Attack," supersleuth Bob Woodward's still-secret study of President Bush's war on terrorism, will be very bad for the Bush reelection campaign - which is still reeling from gun-toting former terrorism chief Richard A. Clarke's critique of Bush, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and other administration figures in "Against All Enemies."

Woodward's book, to be released next month, will receive not only a multipart series in The Washington Post, but also the Mike Wallace treatment on "60 Minutes" April 18 - when I am absolutely confident that the common corporate ownership of CBS and Woodward's publisher, Simon & Schuster, will be mentioned.

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/178720p-155314c.html

[CatWoman]

14. and from USA Today

Next: Plan of Attack by Bob Woodward, the Watergate-era icon of The Washington Post. It's due to be excerpted in the Post on April 18. That night, Woodward will be on another member of the "old media" club — CBS' 60 Minutes, where Clarke also appeared.

It's being touted by the publisher, Simon & Schuster, as a "definitive ... behind-the-scenes" account of how the White House planned and managed the Iraq war. Two White House officials said they are concerned about the book, which they expect will reveal internal disagreements about the decision to go to war.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/president/2004-03-31-political-books_x.htm

[tom_paine]

17. Grove isn't trustworthy as a source but I hope he's right

[CatWoman]

18. funny you should say that -- no one trusts that ass

http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/001533.html

[wellst0nev0ter]

6. Sorry, He's Too Much Of An Establishment "Journalist"

to present a picture that is unflattering to the Bush administration. I'll wait until John R. MacArthur comes out with a book on THIS oil war.

[Generator]

10. Plan? what plan? They had a plan for Iraq?

That's laugable. It doesn't matter what's in this little book. What matters is what's going on in Iraq now, tommorrow, June 30th, October 31st. I await the triumphant Democracy that I am supposed to be witnessing. Nice dream, but there's no plan there.

Behind the scenes?

Like how Iraq was responsible for 9/11 before 9/11 happened?

[xxqqqzme]

11. it will B ass kissing

otherwise why release it now? the story of Iraq is not over by any stretch!

[PfcHammer]

13. anyone read "rise of the vulcans" by james mann ?

[RamboLiberal]

15. I just started it - in stack of books I'm reading about Bush

Just finishing Clarke's book as well.