Plan of Attack of the Digits (W.H. strategy on Woodward's book)

[kskiska]

The Bush regime is uncharacteristically scrambling to attack, defend, deflect, outflank and just plain figure out how to deal with our colleague Bob Woodward's new bestseller, "Plan of Attack," which details the administration's decision to go to war long before March 2003.

On the one hand, the Bush-Cheney '04 Web site continues to put the book at the top of its "suggested reading" list, above books by Bush adviser Karen Hughes and second lady Lynne V. Cheney.

On the other hand, the usual suspects are being rounded up to attack the book. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld yesterday released a transcript of his chat with Woodward, minus, he said, "the ums and urs" but no substance, only banter.

Banter as in this section where he calls Woodward a liar.

"And you lie. You told people I stuck a finger in your chest," Rumsfeld said, referring to Woodward's last book, "Bush at War," in which Rumsfeld told Woodward "we have them off-balance," and then jabbed three fingers into Woodard's chest. That, Woodward wrote, "tipp me back and slightly off balance."

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28731-2004Apr20.html

[Hobarticus]

1. Anyone catch Rumsfeld's act on MoveOn?

When they recited his own words back to him, when he said that he never claimed Iraq was a dire threat? Lotsa laffs.

He's a playground bully, all growed up.

[blm]

2. He's a bully, alright. I dispute the "growed up" part, though.

I think they all act like the whole world is their playground.