Administration Showers Praise on Woodward and His Book

[Rose Siding]

CONDOLEEZZA RICE: He is terrific. He’s a great journalist, and I look forward to reading it. He’s talking about a pretty complex set of discussions about military issues and diplomatic issues, and I’m sure it will be — be fantastic.

DAN BARTLETT: I think Bob Woodward has done a pretty — particularly good job of describing how complicated of a process it is for a commander in chief to do two real important but sometimes conflicting responsibilities.

BARTLETT: We’re urging people to buy the book. What this book does is show a president who was asking the right questions and showing prudence as well as resolve during very difficult times. This book undermines a lot of the critics’ charges.

JOHN KING, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: But what is most striking is that, here at the White House, they say read the book. They believe it shows — it paints the picture of a president who asks the right questions, the tough questions, before going to war and then decided that he was right in launching that war.

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/10/01/whitehouse-woodward/

[Philosoraptor]

1. HIGHpocrisy

[maddezmom]

2. hmmm, looks like Danny is a flipflopper on Woodward

:D

[bigbrother05]

3. Quotes are from 2004

[The Blue Flower]

4. Was Woodward setting them up for this book?

n/t

[Subdivisions]

5. Oh yea! You see, Woodward is all about the attention and the

money. I believe that he gained their confidence and was good to them and so he got even more access and more candor.

What better way to score a bestseller than to expose a down and dirty administration.

Shrewd. So. Very. Shrewd.

I hope it works.

[teryang]

6. interests of uniformed Pentagon and military ind complex differ

That is what Woodward's change of course represents.