Daily Howler - June 25, 2005

PIMPING WISE LEADER! Amazing! When Plan of Attack first appeared, the press said it proved Bush’s honesty! // link // print // previous // next //

SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 2005

PART 5—PIMPING WISE LEADER: Plan of Attack is a fascinating book—more so today than when it appeared in April 2004. And yes, it does show the Bush Admin “fixing the intel,” from shortly after the Downing Street memo right through Colin Powell’s famous appearance before the UN. Uh-oh! Although he is deferential to Powell, Woodward shows the good general, again and again, deciding to put weak, inferential, “iffy” intelligence into his famous presentation. How was your country persuaded to march off to war?