Bob Woodward: Yes, I Should Have Probed Iraqi WMD More Closely

[deminks]

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003600242&imw=Y

NEW YORK The venue was a bit odd -- an online chat marking the 35th anniversary of the Watergate burglary -- but it produced one of the clearest admissions yet by Washington Post editor/reporter Bob Woodward that he was among the many who fumbled the ball on pre-war Iraqi WMDs. He also took issue with how a key Fred Thompson angle relating to Watergate is portrayed.

Woodward has written three books relating to the war, each one more critical of the effort than the previous one, but in the online chat at www.washingtonpost.com this afternoon he was asked about the media's performance while the run-up to the war was still underway.

A reader from Rancho Mirage, Calif., asked: "In light of Watergate, why did the "investigative" branch of the press miss so badly on the Bush-Cheney spin machine to justify Iraq? Was the lesson of Watergate wasted, or was the press serving the country well?"

Woodward replied: "I think the press and I in particular should have been more aggressive in looking at the run-up to the Iraq war, and specifically the alleged intelligence that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction stockpiles. To answer the WMD question before the March 2003 invasion would have been a monumental task, but one that we should have undertaken more systematically."

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Well, that, and 75 cents will buy you a cup of coffee, Bob.

[Bjornsdotter]

1. Gee, ya think?

...fuck off, Bob

[seemslikeadream]

2. I in particular should have been more aggressive

fuck off bob

[Solly Mack]

3. fffffffffffffffffffffffffff

[KoKo]

4. HEY WOODWARD! Your TIME HAS GONE! you are an OLDIE

CRAP...SELL OUT! GET WITH IT....No one cares a crap about your STUFF.. You supported the BUSHIES...so to your "fawning audience" who now realizes you were a "SELL OUT!" ...YOU ARE DEAD TO US...those of US WHO REMEMBER!!!!! :puke: Even though historians and "some" like to treat you as some kind of Athority..or GURU on Presidential Pardons...NIXON IS GONE...DEAD.... WE have a NEW KID ON THE BLOCK and this GUY and his VP ARE THE MEANEST DUDES ANYONE HAS EVER SEEN!

[xultar]

5. OH MY FUCKIN GAWD...NO FUCKIN SHIT PRICKASAURUS!

[Lex]

18. PRICKASAURUS?!1!

:rofl:

[Truth2Tell]

6. And also

maybe I shouldn't have lied about about the Plame case, and, and, and...

Has anyone mentioned... fuck off Bob?

[choie]

7. son of a bitch

[Wickerman]

8. Probed, Bob? You should have at least raised a question instead of cheer-led

You worthless, treasonous pompous windbag. You sold out to the mighty dollar long ago. You are irrelevant. No, worse, you are now in the mis-information business and pond-scum has a higher value than you.

[lonestarnot]

9. You should have done alot of things Woodward, so now just move along off the bridge!

[cassiepriam]

10. What a dork. My aunt Fannie did a better job of questioning the WMD.

[walldude]

11. You can scrub as hard as you want Bob,

but you'll never wash the red from your hands... you pathetic weenie..

[seemslikeadream]

12. Obscenity, who really cares Propaganda, all is phony, BOB

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bjqYPH7rAo



Darkness at the break of noon
Shadows even the silver spoon
The handmade blade, the child's balloon
Eclipses both the sun and moon
To understand you know too soon
There is no sense in trying.



Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn
Suicide remarks are torn
From the fool's gold mouthpiece
The hollow horn plays wasted words
Proves to warn
That he not busy being born
Is busy dying.



Temptation's page flies out the door
You follow, find yourself at war
Watch waterfalls of pity roar
You feel to moan but unlike before
You discover
That you'd just be
One more person crying.



So don't fear if you hear
A foreign sound to your ear
It's alright, Ma, I'm only sighing.



As some warn victory, some downfall
Private reasons great or small
Can be seen in the eyes of those that call
To make all that should be killed to crawl
While others say don't hate nothing at all
Except hatred.



Disillusioned words like bullets bark
As human gods aim for their mark
Made everything from toy guns that spark
To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
It's easy to see without looking too far
That not much
Is really sacred.



While preachers preach of evil fates
Teachers teach that knowledge waits
Can lead to hundred-dollar plates
Goodness hides behind its gates
But even the president of the United States
Sometimes must have
To stand naked.



An' though the rules of the road have been lodged
It's only people's games that you got to dodge
And it's alright, Ma, I can make it.



Advertising signs that con you
Into thinking you're the one
That can do what's never been done
That can win what's never been won
Meantime life outside goes on
All around you.



You lose yourself, you reappear
You suddenly find you got nothing to fear
Alone you stand with nobody near
When a trembling distant voice, unclear
Startles your sleeping ears to hear
That somebody thinks
They really found you.



A question in your nerves is lit
Yet you know there is no answer fit to satisfy
Insure you not to quit
To keep it in your mind and not fergit
That it is not he or she or them or it
That you belong to.



Although the masters make the rules
For the wise men and the fools
I got nothing, Ma, to live up to.



For them that must obey authority
That they do not respect in any degree
Who despise their jobs, their destinies
Speak jealously of them that are free
Cultivate their flowers to be
Nothing more than something
They invest in.



While some on principles baptized
To strict party platform ties
Social clubs in drag disguise
Outsiders they can freely criticize
Tell nothing except who to idolize
And then say God bless him.



While one who sings with his tongue on fire
Gargles in the rat race choir
Bent out of shape from society's pliers
Cares not to come up any higher
But rather get you down in the hole
That he's in.



But I mean no harm nor put fault
On anyone that lives in a vault
But it's alright, Ma, if I can't please him.



Old lady judges watch people in pairs
Limited in sex, they dare
To push fake morals, insult and stare
While money doesn't talk, it swears
Obscenity, who really cares
Propaganda, all is phony.



While them that defend what they cannot see
With a killer's pride, security
It blows the minds most bitterly
For them that think death's honesty
Won't fall upon them naturally
Life sometimes
Must get lonely.



My eyes collide head-on with stuffed graveyards
False gods, I scuff
At pettiness which plays so rough
Walk upside-down inside handcuffs
Kick my legs to crash it off
Say okay, I have had enough
What else can you show me?



And if my thought-dreams could be seen
They'd probably put my head in a guillotine
But it's alright, Ma, it's life, and life only.

[zippy890]

17. Wow - that's great

thanks for posting that video with all the lyrics
I really enjoyed that.

:hi:

[magellan]

13. Woodward is so over

Once upon a time he knew how to practice journalism with principle and integrity. Then he became just another cowardly corporate media whore sell-out who now thinks he can get his reputation back with an empty mea culpa.

Thanks, Bob. Now kiss off.

[tanyev]

14. Oh, I doubt that Bob Woodward drinks 75 cent coffee.

[Major Hogwash]

15. It wasn't Bob's job anyway - it was Congress' job. And they failed.

They should have known, if they didn't know already, that there weren't any WMD's in Iraq.
Especially Hillary, she was sleeping with the ex-President, who knew what the status of WMD in Iraq was on January 20, 2001.
She has no excuse for voting for the IWR, considering she had the ex-President for an advisor.

[pacalo]

16. "and I in particular"??? That ego trip doesn't fly anymore, Bob Wayward.

[blondeatlast]

19. "...I in particular?" Arrogant asshole. May I join the chorus with a round of "Fuck off, Bob?" nt

[JDPriestly]

20. Well, that bursts F. Thompson's bubble big time.

[JDPriestly]

21. Well, that bursts F. Thompson's bubble big time.

[otohara]

22. Woodward Had His Head So Far UP Bush/Cheney Asses For ACCESS

he got unprecedented access to write his "pro-war" pro Bush/Cheney books.

[UTUSN]

23. Fuck you, Bob Woodward, FUCK YOU & STFU!!1 n/t

[flyarm]

24. NO SHIT SHERLOCK!!

but Sherlock ..woodward is not..he is neo con all the way..

hey woodward..if you had looked into those invisable WMD like many of us did ..there would be 3500+ living american soldiers..there would be 30,000 unwounded soldiers!!

and there would be 650,000-950,000 living Iraqi civilians!!

and you will not un- bloody your hands now claiming..opps...

fuck you woodward..you are equally responsible for all those murders based on lies..lies you perpetrated!!

if i could know they were all lies, you sure as hell could have and most likely did know they were lies!!

you get no pass ever from me!!

you MTF'er!

fly

[Mz Pip]

25. Well, DUH!

Too bad the investigative journalist who refused to drink the kool - aid for Nixon couldn't do the same 30 years later.

Mz Pip
:dem: