Bob Woodward wakes up

The Washington Post reporter who broke Watergate but then went on to shill for the current administration has finally come to his senses. The New York Times reports:

WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 — The White House ignored an urgent warning in September 2003 from a top Iraq adviser who said that thousands of additional American troops were desperately needed to quell the insurgency there, according to a new book by Bob Woodward, the Washington Post reporter and author. The book describes a White House riven by dysfunction and division over the war.

The warning is described in “State of Denial,” scheduled for publication on Monday by Simon & Schuster. The book says President Bush’s top advisers were often at odds among themselves, and sometimes were barely on speaking terms, but shared a tendency to dismiss as too pessimistic assessments from American commanders and others about the situation in Iraq.

And check this out about then National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice:

On July 10, 2001, the book says, Mr. [Geroge] Tenet and his counterterrorism chief, J. Cofer Black, met with Ms. Rice at the White House to impress upon her the seriousness of the intelligence the agency was collecting about an impending attack. But both men came away from the meeting feeling that Ms. Rice had not taken the warnings seriously.

Now if these people were Democrats, the press would hound them out of office. But just watch. This will hardly be reported. I just looked on the CNN website and I can't find it. But I did find this Quick Vote poll:

Do you believe President Bush has been frank with the nation about the situation in Iraq?

Yes - 20%

No - 80%

So in spite of the biased-toward-the-right news coverage, the American people are not believing the president. That's, at the very least, refreshing.