Posted on 10/03/2006 8:43:27 AM PDT by MNJohnnie
So it is starting to look more and more like Bob Woodward, in his following of Kitty Kelly's footsteps, also decided to simply made up large portion of his current book.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/10/1/151 303.shtml?s=lh
Andy Card Denies Woodward Claim
Ronald Kessler Monday, Oct. 2, 2006
Former White House Chief of Staff Andrew H. "Andy" Card Jr. has denied Bob Woodward's claim that he and first lady Laura Bush tried to get Donald Rumsfeld fired as defense secretary.
Card told NewsMax that the assertion in Woodward's book "State of Denial" that he thought Rumsfeld should have been the one to leave the administration instead of himself was also "not true." Card left as chief of staff in April.
According to an excerpt to be published in the Washington Post on Sunday, "State of Denial" says, "He [Card] was leaving. And the man most responsible for the postwar troubles, the one who should have gone, Rumsfeld, was staying."
But Card told NewsMax, "I never felt that someone should have left ‘instead' of me." Card said any implication that he was bitter about leaving was also "not true at all."
News accounts about the Woodward book led with Andy Card trying to oust Rumsfeld with the support of Laura Bush. But White House spokesman Tony Snow quoted Laura Bush's office as saying Woodward's claim relating to her was "flatly not true." In addition, Card told the Associated Press that Laura Bush never encouraged an effort to oust Rumsfeld.
"Mrs. Bush and I never discussed it," Card said.
Only two major news outlets ran Laura Bush's denial — the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post.
In his book, Woodward wrote that Card urged Bush to replace Rumsfeld with former Secretary of State James Baker following the 2004 election. According to the book, Bush decided not to do so after Vice President Dick Cheney and chief political adviser Karl Rove convinced him it would be seen as an expression of doubt about the direction of the war and expose Bush to criticism.
Woodward claimed that Card, with the backing of first lady Laura Bush, tried a second time to persuade Bush to fire Rumsfeld around Thanksgiving 2005. But according to Woodward, the president again refused to replace him.
But according to Card, he never pushed for Rumsfeld's resignation. He said he kept a list of potential Cabinet and staff changes for Bush to consider after the 2004 election, as he did after other important dates.
"To say that it was a campaign or an orchestrated effort would be wrong,"' Card said. "But were there times that we talked about potential changes in the Cabinet? Yes. Did they center around Rumsfeld? Not necessarily. They were in a broader context."
Tony Snow, besieged by questions about it at his daily briefing, said the book was similar to others critical of the war effort and that much of it was less than meets the eye.
"In a lot of ways, the books are like cotton candy. They kind of melt on contact,'" he said.
In a story that ran July 31, Card told NewsMax that his own resignation arose after he had been thinking for some time that "the president needed something that would allow external observers to see that he had new momentum." Card said he already had a lot of changes in the works, but nobody would have seen them as change.
"So it was time for new personalities to help give definition to the word change," Card said. "I first went to the president more than a month and a half before I left. I said, ‘You know, I think it's probably time to think about it.'"
"Nah!" the president replied at Camp David. "I'm not going to do anything."
Card suggested he give it some thought.
"We talked a handful of other times about it, and finally it was the right time," Card said.
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http://radio.findanisp.com/radio-shows-on-air.php
First?
Okay, second.
Morning Johnnie. Who else is sick of this Hastard resigning BS?
G'morning!
Woodward - king of the "anonymous source" fabricator...
As soon as 50-100 DUmocrats resign. Should we start a list?
Should be an interesting day.
Pelosi first.
Hey all!
As Clinton wagged his finger in the nose of every American, assuring the world that he "did not have sex with that woman", he and his closest advisors knew better. As he sat under oath before a court committing outright perjury before a world-wide audience, Democrats stood firmly at his side, crying foul, insisting that any lie about sex isn't a lie at all really.
When former New Jersey Governor James McGreevey was busted cheating on his wife and family with a young male office assistant, Democrats again rushed to his side
Democrat Representative Barney Franks didn't get busted sending private messages to his boy friend - he was busted paying a male prostitute for services. He was busted while using his elected position of power to clear his boy friend from his felony past, with convictions for cocaine possession, oral sodomy and "production of obscene items involving a juvenile."
I want to see more of this guy's stuff -- he's right on every call... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1712770/posts?page=1
Thanks-You're the best!
Republicans should get back to securing the country.
Conservatives: Eating their own since 1994.
I was sick of it before it even started today. You know the rats are just trying to suck all the air out of the room, before the election. So when people go to vote they are light headed from lack of oxygen and accidentally punch a hole in front of a rats name.
Thought it started in 92 with Bush 41?
Thanks Bill and Hill!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1712617/posts
Morning, all!
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