Brian Dickerson (Detroit Free Press)on the arrogant Bush administration...

[LZ1234]

Regarding Bob Woodward's book and the assertions made:

"But has the White House turned purple with indignation? Has it embarked on a systematic campaign of character assassination, as it did earlier this year when former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill and former counter-terrorism chief Richard Clarke published their own tell-all books?
Not at all.
The president, cultivating his reputation as a fellow far too busy to ready anything longer than a box score says through his press secretary that he has not seen Woodward's book.
But the other senior Bush administration officials Woodward interviewed clearly have, and the consensus among them appears to be that their inquisitor has done them proud...
But with Woodward's overarching theses - that the decision to invade Iraq grew out of religious conviction rather than strategic conviction, and that American diplomatic efforts to avert war were largely a charade - there has been remarkably little quarrel.
Arrogance? Woodward's account - and the administration's reaction to it - beggars the word. No, this is hubris - the mythic sort on which great empires are smashed and great alliances sundered."

[Bozita]

1. link, please .... wanna read the whole thing

[LZ1234]

2. Here it is - hope it works

http://www.freep.com/news/metro/dicker21_20040421.htm