State of Denial

State of Denial pdf

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Robert Upshur Woodward (nacido el 26 de marzo de 1943) es un periodista de investigación estadounidense. Comenzó a trabajar para The Washington Post como reportero en 1971 y ahora tiene el título de editor asociado. Mientras era un joven reportero de The Washington Post en 1972, Woodward se asoció con Carl Bernstein, y los dos hicieron gran parte de los reportajes de noticias originales sobre el escándalo de Watergate. Estos escándalos dieron lugar a numerosas investigaciones gubernamentales y a la eventual dimisión del presidente Richard Nixon. El trabajo de Woodward y Bernstein fue llamado "quizás el mayor esfuerzo periodístico de todos los tiempos" por Gene Roberts. Woodward siguió trabajando para The Washington Post después de su reportaje sobre Watergate. Ha escrito 21 libros sobre política estadounidense y temas de actualidad, 13 de los cuales han encabezado las listas de libros más vendidos. Woodward nació en Ginebra, Illinois, hijo de Jane (de soltera Upshur) y Alfred E. Woodward, un abogado que más tarde se convirtió en juez principal del Tribunal del Circuito Judicial 18. Se crió en las cercanías de Wheaton, Illinois, y se educó en Wheaton Community High School (WCHS), una escuela secundaria pública en la misma ciudad. Sus padres se divorciaron cuando él tenía doce años, y él, su hermano y su hermana fueron criados por su padre, quien posteriormente se volvió a casar Después de ser dado de baja como teniente en agosto de 1970, Woodward fue admitido en la Facultad de Derecho de Harvard, pero decidió no asistir. En cambio, solicitó un trabajo como reportero de The Washington Post mientras tomaba cursos de posgrado en Shakespeare y relaciones internacionales en la Universidad George Washington. Harry M. Rosenfeld, el editor metropolitano del Post, lo puso a prueba durante dos semanas, pero no lo contrató debido a su falta de experiencia periodística. Después de un año en el Montgomery Sentinel, un periódico semanal en los suburbios de Washington, D.C., Woodward fue contratado como reportero del Post en 1971.

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State of Denial pdf por Bob Woodward

"Insurgents and terrorists retain the resources and capabilities to sustain and even increase current level of violence through the next year." This was the secret Pentagon assessment sent to the White House in May 2006. The forecast of a more violent 2007 in Iraq contradicted the repeated optimistic statements of President Bush, including one, two days earlier, when he said we were at a "turning point" that history would mark as the time "the forces of terror began their long retreat."
State of Denial examines how the Bush administration avoided telling the truth about Iraq to the public, to Congress, and often to themselves. Two days after the May report, the Pentagon told Congress, in a report required by law, that the "appeal and motivation for continued violent action will begin to wane in early 2007."
In this detailed inside story of a war-torn White House, Bob Woodward reveals how White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card, with the indirect support of other high officials, tried for 18 months to get Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld replaced. The president and Vice President Cheney refused. At the beginning of Bush's second term, Stephen Hadley, who replaced Condoleezza Rice as national security adviser, gave the administration a "D minus" on implementing its policies. A SECRET report to the new Secretary of State Rice from her counselor stated that, nearly two years after the invasion, Iraq was a "failed state."
State of Denial reveals that at the urging of Vice President Cheney and Rumsfeld, the most frequent outside visitor and Iraq adviser to President Bush is former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who, haunted still by the loss in Vietnam, emerges as a hidden and potent voice.
Woodward reveals that the secretary of defense himself believes that the system of coordination among departments and agencies is broken, and in a SECRET May 1, 2006, memo, Rumsfeld stated, "the current system of government makes competence next to impossible."
State of Denial answers the core questions: What happened after the invasion of Iraq? Why? How does Bush make decisions and manage a war that he chose to define his presidency? And is there an achievable plan for victory?
Bob Woodward's third book on President Bush is a sweeping narrative  from the first days George W. Bush thought seriously about running for president through the recruitment of his national security team, the war in Afghanistan, the invasion and occupation of Iraq, and the struggle for political survival in the second term.
After more than three decades of reporting on national security decision making -- including his two #1 national bestsellers on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Bush at War (2002) and Plan of Attack (2004) -- Woodward provides the fullest account, and explanation, of the road Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice and the White House staff have walked.
"IN late December 2000, less than a month before his inauguration, President-elect George W. Bush was still debating who should be his secretary of defense. Former Senator Dan Coats, an Indiana Republican who had served on the Armed Services Committee, had been at the top of Bush's list and had the backing of his conservative base. But Coats had not been impressive in his interview with Bush and Vice President elect Dick Cheney, who was heading the transition team for the new government. Coats knew the top generals mostly from a distance and was lukewarm on the national missile defense system Bush had promised in the campaign. He had never run a large organization and he acknowledged he would need a strong, experienced number two at the Pentagon. It wouldn't work. Bush needed someone who could not only battle things out with the generals but who also had as much gravitas as the rest of his new national security team. Cheney had been secretary of defense under Bush's father; Colin Powell, Bush's pick for secretary of state, had been chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Reagan's national security adviser. He needed a secretary of defense with more stature, grit and experience. What about Donald Rumsfeld? Cheney suggested. Rumsfeld, 68, Cheney's old boss and mentor, had the dream resume. He had been secretary of defense once before, under President Ford from 1975 to 1977. He had been a Navy pilot in the 1950s, elected to four terms in Congress, served as Ford's White House chief of staff, and been the CEO of two Fortune 500 companies. They'd been talking about making Rumsfeld CIA director, but maybe that wasn't right. Maybe they needed him back at Defense. Three days before Christmas, Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld had a long meeting and lunch. Wiry, cocky, confident with a boyish intensity, Rumsfeld seemed only half his age. He blew into the meeting like a tornado, full of excitement and vision. He knew the Pentagon; he had recently headed commissions on the use of space and the ballistic missile threat. He seemed to know everything."

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