"I will not withdraw, even if Laura and Barney are the only ones supporting me." --George W. Bush
That's what the megalomaniac in the White House told "key Republicans" during a discussion of the War on Iraq, which took place in the White House -- according to Bob Woodward's new book.
In other words, in Bush's view, the U.S. Government is a one-man show. And it's his show.
Woodward is set to appear on Sunday's edition of 60 Minutes to talk about his new book, State of Denial: Bush at War III, which will hit bookstores on Monday.
The situation is getting much worse, says Woodward, despite what the White House and the Pentagon are saying in public. "The truth is that the assessment by intelligence experts is that next year, 2007, is going to get worse and, in public, you have the president and you have the Pentagon [saying], 'Oh, no, things are going to get better,'" he tells Wallace. "Now there’s public, and then there’s private. But what did they do with the private? They stamp it secret. No one is supposed to know," says Woodward.
"The insurgents know what they are doing. They know the level of violence and how effective they are. Who doesn't know? The American public," Woodward tells Wallace.
Today's New York Times scoops the 60 Minutes show, "The book describes a White House riven by dysfunction and division over the war."
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