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Wednesday, April 21, 2004

Bush Flip Flopping On Woodward's Book?

CLAIM:

"Administration: Woodward Book Wrong on War"
- Fox News Headline, 4/21/04

FACT:

"[The Bush campaign] has given their equivalent of four stars to Bob Woodward's 'Plan of Attack', his account of how Mr. Bush decided to go to war with Iraq...On the Bush campaign's Web site, georgewbush.com, there is a link to a 'Suggested Reading List.' At the top of that list - above the new book by Karen Hughes, Mr. Bush's trusted aide, and others by such Bush loyalists and admirers as Mary Matalin, Lynne Cheney and David Frum - is 'Plan of Attack.'"
- NY Times, 4/20/04

If they thought the book was so inaccurate, why would they be urging people to read it? Or is this just a case of Fox trying to do the Administration's dirty work?