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Book: Bush Ignored Early Warnings on Iraq Insurgency

HeadlineSep 29, 2006

A new account of the White House’s handling of Iraq and the war on terror says President Bush ignored an urgent warning on the growing Iraqi insurgency in the months after the invasion. In a new book, Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward, President Bush told top advisor: “I don’t want anyone in the cabinet to say it is an insurgency. I don’t think we are there yet.” That instruction came in November 2003, when there were more than seven hundred attacks on US troops. Woodward also reports former CIA Director George Tenet believed Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was hindering the development of a coherent strategy to capture or kill Osama bin Laden.

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