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- SenderBerl Deep Analysis: Woodward's Bush at War
- SenderBerl asserts that Woodward's Book has a dark invisible
agenda...
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- The following is extracted from the Washington Times.
When reading it ask where is the power between Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld,
Powell. We address it below.
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- On Aug. 5, Bush summoned Powell and Rice for what
turned out to be a long meeting on Iraq where Powell drove home his arguments
against a direct attack on Iraq that could, in Woodward's words, "suck
the oxygen out of just about everything else the United States was doing,
not only in the war on terrorism but also in all other diplomatic, defense
and intelligence relationships."
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- "It's nice to say we can do it unilaterally,"
Woodward said Powell told the president, "except you can't."
Bush, Woodward continued, seemed intrigued.
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- The president said he preferred to have an international
coalition like the one he built to deal with Afghanistan. As a matter of
diplomacy, Powell said he thought the president and the administration
could bring most countries along.
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- The secretary felt the discussion became tense several
times as he pressed, but in the end he believed that he had left nothing
unsaid, Woodward wrote.
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- "That was terrific," Rice said the next
day in a phone call to Powell, "and we need to do more of those."
The tip-off about the potential importance of that evening was when White
House Chief of Staff Andrew H. Card Jr. also called the next day and asked
Powell to come over and give him the same presentation, notes and all,
Woodward's account said.
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- Powell made his arguments to seek support through
the United Nations again in a meeting via video feed between Washington
and the president in Crawford, Texas and at that point even the vice president
and the secretary of defense agreed.
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- Finally, as the speech Bush would deliver on Iraq
at the United Nations was drafted, the president decided he would include
a line saying he would use the United Nations and seek a new resolution
on Iraq despite continuing opposition arguments from Cheney and Rumsfeld.
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- Two days before the speech, however, the 21st draft
did not include language asking the United Nations to do anything. At still
another meeting without Bush present, Cheney and Powell argued over the
language and, Woodward wrote, Powell was still not sure he had won the
point.
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- The night before the speech Bush spoke to Powell
and Rice to say he had decided he would ask for new U.N. resolutions and
that he wanted to make that statement himself, in the speech text.
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- But when Bush, speaking the General Assembly hall,
reached that portion of the speech the change in the text had not been
inserted into the TelePrompTer version.
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- But Bush then ad-libbed the line, saying, "We
will work with the U.N. Security Council for the necessary resolutions."
Powell's policy victory had been accomplished.
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- The next day Iraq announced that it would admit
new weapons inspectors, although few within the administration believed
it was sincere.
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- The president proceeded after the U.N. speech as
if he were willing to give the United Nations a chance, and his public
rhetoric softened. Instead of speaking only about regime change, Bush began
in his subsequent speeches to say a military option was not his first choice.
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- This was all a victory for Powell, Woodward wrote,
but perhaps only a momentary one. The scaled-down rhetoric did mean that
the president could say no to Cheney and Rumsfeld, but it did not mean
a lessening of Bush's fierce determination. "As always, it was an
ongoing struggle for the president's heart and mind," Woodward wrote.
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- On Nov. 8, the U.N. Security Council approved a
new resolution, 15 to 0, ordering Iraq to admit weapons inspectors. In
a Rose Garden statement, the president praised Powell "for his leadership,
his good work and his determination over the past two months."
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- SenderBerl: One has to remember that Woodward doesn't
get this access to the President and the power players in the Cabinet without
a price. What we believe Bush wants to do here is set forth history in
what is seen as real time versus later historical assessment where those
who speak are out of power and tell the real truth of what happened during
this critical period of history.
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- Here Bush allows Cheney, Rumsfeld and Powell to speak
to Woodward, recording their memoirs real time, so that later they are
precluded from changing what really took place. This is an incredible ruse
to hide the truth of what took place.
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- Do you really think someone lifted a line from the President's
approved UN speech? This is a form of historical manipulation never before
deployed. It boxes in those carrying the truth, especially Powell, from
later clarifying it because then he will be shown to be a real time liar
to the American public. How does Woodward cover his own collusion into
this perceived scenario? By including segments in the book reflecting a
softened blow against Bush's dictatorial approach, as follows:
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- The president emerged wearing a New York Fire Department
windbreaker. He raised his arm and gave a thumbs-up to the crowd on the
third base side of the field. Probably 15,000 fans threw their arms in
the air imitating the motion.
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- He then threw a strike from the rubber, and the stadium
erupted. Watching from owner George Steinbrenner's box, Karl Rove thought,
It's like being at a Nazi rally." (p. 277)
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- Woodward then writes that Bush showed great courage in
what he did that day. Let us wait to comment on that facet since we believe
like his dad that he is not without courage. However, if things get dire
and dark, let us see whether President Bush remains with the public, or
hunkers down with school children from the Florida reading stories in the
government bunker.
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- Conclusion: The Woodward book is a new dimension of political
propaganda in precluding those who might reveal the truth in the future
from doing so. Powell whose tenure with Bush may be short was probably
the primary target of this effort. Very brilliant but very scary that with
everything going on today that our oil cartel NWO group made the time to
conceive and hatch this plan. Why else would the President and his power
staff commit to TAPED INTERVIEWS WITH WOODWARD AT THIS EARLY POINT OF TIME
IN CRITICAL HISTORY?
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- Look at the following excerpt:
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- Update: It appears that Woodward had much better access
to Powell than to Cheney or Rumsfeld and therefore Woodward's narrative
tends to describe the internal disagreements and events from Powell's perspective.
Woodward may even favor Powell's viewpoint because he appears to not try
to make arguments for why the opposing viewpoint may be reasonable. There
are questions I'd like to put to Mr. Powell which Woodward doesn't appear
to address. For instance, does Mr. Powell really believe that inspections
can work? Or is he just in favor of inspections as a necessary prelude
for getting governments iin the Middle East more supportive of a US move
against the Iraqi regime? Does he want the inspections as a way to allow
Middle Easterners to see that Saddam will not be reasonable? Exactly what
does he expect the UN inspections to accomplish?
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- http://www.parapundit.com/archives/000644.html
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- Let's be frank that Powell will not describe events today
to the public as he would later on if things turn truly dire and dark and
he's out as Secretary of State. From where we sit, Woodward was Bush's
shill in committing Powell, allowing him to criticize all he wanted to
preclude his changing his story in the future. This suggests that Powell
may be out of his position in the immediate to intermediate future, because
this was all done possibly to eliminate Powell and bring in a NWO oil cartel
player into his slot.
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- Who will the divided NWO seek to reveal to the American
public what is really going on in the Bush White House? Powell. However,
he has already spoken and has already offered his criticisms. To explain
them after his removal will be played as sour grapes and worse.
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- Think about it. Whether or not Powell goes, depending
on what unfolds, Bush, in our opinion, has written history for this period
of time, hiding many truths of his true motives and intent. Seeing Woodward
being given this incredible access was highly suspicious, knowing that
President Bush and his Cabinet really do have a lot of important work to
do other than worrying what they are going to record for history.
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- End Analysis
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- Joseph Ehrlich
- Sender, Berl & Sons Inc.
- November 19, 2002
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