Adams Tight Lies
Adams Tight Lies
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US $49.99
Written by: Bob Woodward
487 pages
ISBN: 1-4165-5897-7
Simon & Shuster publishing
$ 32.00
5 Stars
Book four of Woodward on the Bush presidency examines the President's decision making process and how he fought the war through 2006 and the first half of 2008. The writing is clear and strong. Woodward's observations and conclusions stun the reader.
Woodward's book opens with a cast of characters to help the reader understand the involved in major decisions of war. Woodward then takes the reader on a hard landing as he discusses the growing violence in Iraq and how general on the floor, Casey and Abizaid, seemed oblivious to the fighting, focusing more on "numbers", because that's what the President wanted to see.
While Casey and Abizaid are working to reduce its personnel on the ground conditions do not permit. In early 2006, President Bush realizes the strategy is not working, but instead of pursuing the more traditional channels such as the Department of Defense or the Joint Chiefs of answers, we ask our National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley to do a study to determine why the war strategy is failing and what can be done to fix it. As Hadley is following this program through channels back door, the bipartisan Iraq Study Group is composed of five Republicans last five democratic and classification to determine what strategy war is and offer suggestions to solve it.
During the summer of 2006, Hadley and the study group, independently, conducting numerous interviews intensive. Also shake things up behind the curtains is retired Gen. Jack Keane, who has a sharp, precise laser understanding of Iraqi society, leadership is, and what the U.S. can do to bolster its strategy. Keane guides to key players in the game to a viable strategy might work. Keane is that inspires Gen. Peter Pace, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs to convene a council of colonels to review the U.S. war effort. Keane is recommended that General David Petraeus to replace General Casey, is that Keane has a side door "in" with Chaney and Bush.
Bush's strategic vision by Hadley and end of the Iraq study group at the same time, approximately six to seven months after they began. Most of the Bush team's recommendations mirror group study - including an increase. Unfortunately, as Woodward points out, it took six to seven months of Bush to get a change of strategy - something that should have happened in a tighter timetable. Another change is the result of pure partisan politics - Bush wait until after the 2006 elections and the loss of both houses of Congress Democrats to let go of Rumsfeld, with the involvement of the Republicans, if you keep the Congress, Rumsfeld would have stayed.
Bush holds accountable no one - not Rumsfeld, not Casey and Abizaid, who will each receive a promotion. His lack of a timetable for a new strategy in Iraq, the destruction continues. Stop searching the advice instead of giving - the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Woodward's writing is tight. He breaks down the difficult track of the topics so that the reader understands the situation and the consequences of Bush's action. "The War Within" is a fascinating study of the President himself, his makeup, and legacy that will leave the nation.
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