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kommer älska Anmäl dig till LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. The last of the trilogy on the Bush war-making administration. Bereft of an accurate and balanced war account, such as in Bing West's, The Strongest Tribe, this ultimate journalistic report appears flat.  gmicksmith | Feb 11, 2009 |  A book every American should read. (  ) fanoula | Nov 9, 2008 | This enlightening and extremely well-written book examines how the Bush Administration avoided telling the truth about Iraq to the public, to Congress, and often to themselves. It answers the core questions: What really happened after the invasion of Iraq? Why? How does Bush make decisions and manage a war that he chose to define his presidency? And is there an achievable plan for victory? This is the third book Woodward has written on the Bush presidency. It follows "Bush At War" (2002) and "Plan of Attack" (2004), and these three books will very likely take their place as the definitive narrative of the entire debacle that is known as the Bush Administration. Woodward's no-nonsense, tell-it-like-it-is writing style hasn't changed since the Watergate exposure and it is my belief that these three books provide what is likely the most complete account and explanation of the road that Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, and the rest of that bunch have taken this entire nation down for the past 8 years. I cannot recommend this book highly enough. IMO, every American should read it. 5 (  ) madamejeanie | Sep 18, 2008 | If you wanted to be a fly on the wall in the discussions at the White House and Department of Defense in the Bush adminsitrations, then this is as close as you will get. In sometimes tedious detail, Woodward describes the reaction of the Rumsfeld and Bush to the degeneration of Iraq following the US invasion. Several important changes happened to the structure of government during these years not the least of which was the dominance of the Secretary of Defense over the Joint Chiefs of Staff.. As a result, a potentially critical voice was filtered through Rumsfeld's point of view. Bush is portrayed as being more interested in keeping a team of egos together than defining a path forward. A long read and I sometimes felt that the "granularity" was sometimes a bit much. (  )1  maunder | Aug 25, 2008 | Dissecting Bush's decisions and his administrative team's actions on the Iraq War. nopressure1 | Jun 30, 2008 |  inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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State of Denial examines how the Bush administration avoided telling the truth about Iraq to the public, to Congress, and often to themselves. Two days after the May report, the Pentagon told Congress, in a report required by law, that the "appeal and motivation for continued violent action will begin to wane in early 2007."
In this detailed inside story of a war-torn White House, Bob Woodward reveals how White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card, with the indirect support of other high officials, tried for 18 months to get Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld replaced. The president and Vice President Cheney refused. At the beginning of Bush's second term, Stephen Hadley, who replaced Condoleezza Rice as national security adviser, gave the administration a "D minus" on implementing its policies. A SECRET report to the new Secretary of State Rice from her counselor stated that, nearly two years after the invasion, Iraq was a "failed state."
State of Denial reveals that at the urging of Vice President Cheney and Rumsfeld, the most frequent outside visitor and Iraq adviser to President Bush is former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who, haunted still by the loss in Vietnam, emerges as a hidden and potent voice. Woodward reveals that the secretary of defense himself believes that the system of coordination among departments and agencies is broken, and in a SECRET May 1, 2006, memo, Rumsfeld stated, "the current system of government makes competence next to impossible."
State of Denial answers the core questions: What happened after the invasion of Iraq? Why? How does Bush make decisions and manage a war that he chose to define his presidency? And is there an achievable plan for victory? Bob Woodward's third book on President Bush is a sweeping narrative -- from the first days George W. Bush thought seriously about running for president through the recruitment of his national security team, the war in Afghanistan, the invasion and occupation of Iraq, and the struggle for political survival in the second term. After more than three decades of reporting on national security decision making -- including his two #1 national bestsellers on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Bush at War (2002) and Plan of Attack (2004) -- Woodward provides the fullest account, and explanation, of the road Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice and the White House staff have walked.
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