Bob Woodward, who most Americans know as the investigative reporter who reported on the Watergate scandal that led to the eventual resignation of President Richard Nixon, recently dropped a political bombshell on Fox News Sunday concerning former President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama.
Woodward spoke of the controversy surrounding Bush’s insistence on invading Iraq, admitting that mistakes were made but that, “I spent 18 months looking at how Bush decided to invade Iraq. Lots of mistakes, but it was Bush telling George Tenet the CIA director, don’t let anyone stretch the case on WMD.”
He also told the show’s host, Chris Wallace, that Obama’s insistence on pulling troops out of Iraq in 2011 was a mistake, one that probably led to the build-up of the Islamic State group.
Woodward, a registered Democrat, laid out the reasons that Bush decided to go into Iraq when he did, citing momentum because “the war plan kept getting better and easier,” with many advisers saying it would only take a week or two.
The point he was trying to drive home was that after 18 months of studying Bush’s actions leading up to the eventual deployment in Iraq, that he couldn’t find any evidence of Bush lying about why we needed to be there.
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Woodward spoke of the controversy surrounding Bush’s insistence on invading Iraq, admitting that mistakes were made but that, “I spent 18 months looking at how Bush decided to invade Iraq. Lots of mistakes, but it was Bush telling George Tenet the CIA director, don’t let anyone stretch the case on WMD.”
He also told the show’s host, Chris Wallace, that Obama’s insistence on pulling troops out of Iraq in 2011 was a mistake, one that probably led to the build-up of the Islamic State group.
Woodward, a registered Democrat, laid out the reasons that Bush decided to go into Iraq when he did, citing momentum because “the war plan kept getting better and easier,” with many advisers saying it would only take a week or two.
The point he was trying to drive home was that after 18 months of studying Bush’s actions leading up to the eventual deployment in Iraq, that he couldn’t find any evidence of Bush lying about why we needed to be there.
http://conservativetribune.com/woodward-drops-bombshell-obama/