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 [Firedoglake] FDL Book Salon Welcomes Bob Woodward, Author of The War Within: Woodward represents for me all that I detest in the media, the Beltway purveyor of Conventional Wisdoms, the journalist who trades access for insight, the one who thinks reporting goes no further than He said/She said, whose conclusions if any are platitudinous, a media star for our times, the Age of Stupid, who even at this late date has still not tumbled to the fact that Bush, the champion of incompetence, criminality, and cronyism is the worst President in our history. Disastrous wars, a disastrous economy, a disaster for our rights and Constitution and Woodward manages to miss it all.

 [Infowars] The US top secret in Iraq and the Israeli connection: Bob Woodward’s newest book “the War within” which he reveals in it how the Bush administration has administrated the war in Iraq and in it he talks about a US secret program to counter the Iraqi insrugency. Woodward told CNN’s Larry king, earlier this week, that he has obtained secret information on the workings of US military in Iraq that enabled the US forces to stem the tide of violence and al-Qaeda terrorism in Iraq.

 [Alaskan Orthodox Patriot] Military Command almost lost Iraq?: against the uniformed military, whose wise and sober advice was cavalierly ignored. The Bush administration’s cardinal sin was interference in predominantly military affairs, starting with overruling the military on the size of the force that invaded Iraq in March 2003″

[New Releases] Woodward, Bob The War Within: A Secret Whitehouse History 2006 ...: Woodward interviewed key players, obtained dozens of never-before-published documents, and had nearly three hours of exclusive interviews with President Bush. The result is a stunning, firsthand history of the years from mid-2006, when the White House realizes the Iraq strategy is not working, through the decision to surge another 30,000 U.S. troops in 2007, and into mid-2008, when the war becomes a fault line in the presidential election.

 [Pensito Review] Woodward: Quiet in Iraq Is Due to New Top Secret US Weapon, Surge ...: 5, 2008], the White House in responding to the book for the first time confirmed that there were “newly developed techniques and operations which helped the situation stabilize in Iraq.”

 [Infowars] What Is The Secret Killing Weapon In Iraq?: Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bob Woodward revealed to Larry King last night that the U.S. has embarked on a “secret killing program” in Iraq which has dramatically reduced attacks on coalition troops by wiping out terrorists, but what could this secret weapon possibly be?

[Rantburg] Our generals almost cost us Iraq: The dominant media storyline about the Iraq war holds that the decisions about how to conduct it pitted ignorant civilians -- especially the president and secretary of defense -- against the uniformed military, whose wise and sober advice was cavalierly ignored. The Bush administration's cardinal sin was interference in predominantly military affairs, starting with overruling the military on the size of the force that invaded Iraq in March 2003.

 [Joejolly's Weblog] Secret killing program key in Iraq, Woodward says: Again, there’s talk about an Al-Qaida in Iraq while there’s no such thing in the first place. Woodward is still at The Washington Post while this once honorable newspaper has been swallowed up by Rupert Murdoch which means that Woodward himself is nowadays very much part of the controlled media.

[Marine Corps News Room] Decency, Toughness ... and No Shortcuts: In a letter to The Washington Post, National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley countered that it was in fact the President’s decision to add 30,000 troops that had “enabled” the other three factors cited by Woodward. Sadr had called a ceasefire, Hadley argued, because he could not prevail in the face of the surge;

 [The Congress Blog] The US top secret in Iraq and the Israeli connection: And if we take into consideration that this program has succeeded in its goals, for the time being, especially in combination of other factors such as the decision of young shia leader Muqtada Sadr to freeze his Mahdi Army military confrontation with the US and Iraqi forces, and the decision of the Sunni tribes in al-Anbar to abandon Al-Qiada who shot itself in the foot by adopting harsh tactics and inflaming the secretion passions with it indiscriminate suicide bombing campaigns against shia and Sunni populations centers.

[Blog Shop Review] The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006-2008: Though the criticism of the Bush Administration centers on a number of issues - being upfront with the public on policy objectives, the management of policy in the hands of a small number of planners, the cornerstone to any policy changes being the outcome of the 2006 Congressional elections - it ultimately shows a decisive President Bush finally moving forward on the “surge” strategy devised by retired General Jack Keane and General David H.

 [SWJ Blog] 24 September SWJ Roundup: The theme would be applying these ideas to conflict in the post-Iraq era, and more specifically to the types of diffused, networked, “open source” armed conflicts that some have called “fifth generation warfare.” We are also interested in exploring solutions, such as the role of “resilient communities” (RC), for countering them. As Oil and food prices have climbed and the mortgage crisis has grown, the need to think more about Resilient Communities has become more urgent.

 [Weekly Standard Blog] Did the US Have a "Secret Killing Program" in Iraq?: Given that a lot of what passes for serious discussion on Iraq in the US popular perception is a mixture of misunderstanding, kabuki, and domestic political tribalism, I’m not too surprised that many policy-makers misunderstand the reasons why violence went down or the dynamics behind them. That said, I really do hope that no politician or prominent analyst starts adopting the position that the reduction of violence has less to do with the counterinsurgency theories of David Galula or the Awakening leadership but were instead due to the utilization of some magical new weaponry by our special ops teams.

 [blog] Woodward: Secret Killing Program Key In Iraq: The dramatic drop in violence in Iraq is due in large part to a secret program the US military has used to kill terrorists, according to a new book by. military has used to kill.

 [El Campeador's Weblog] Woodward on the Surge: In any event, we’re (thankfully) now in a position where people are arguing over the various factors that have led to the stunning change in Iraq. What matters most–in terms of the human dimension, the national security interests of the United States, and history–is that Iraq, which was in a death spiral in late 2006, is now on the road to recovery.

[Everyone's Blog Posts - Young Famous and Fashionable] New Technology: The Secret Killing Machine in Iraq: Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bob Woodward revealed to Larry King last night that the US has embarked on a “secret killing program” in Iraq which has dramatically reduced attacks on coalition troops by wiping out terrorists, .

 [MEMG: The Middle East Monitoring Group] MIDEAST BLOG MONITOR 09.22.2008: Walid Phares, a visiting fellow at the European Foundation for Democracy in Brussels and senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington, talks to RFE/RL correspondent Charles Recknagel about Al-Qaeda's setbacks in Iraq and the future of its ideology.

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