[MJY1288]

This is a hard article to follow, Hitchens did do a good job of exposing Woodwards slant in "Bush at War"

I too thought Woodwards book was more about trying to expose a wishful split between Powell and Bush

[Miss Marple]

This is an excellent analysis, although I don't agree with Hitchens on all of the details. I wasn't going to read the book, but I received it as a Christmas gift so I did.

I found it superficial and heavily weighted towards the State Department. What was most irrritating to me was the inference that the conquest of Afghanistan was almost an accident. This comes, no doubt, from the fact that the Defense Department didn't give Woodward much information.