Bob Woodward kritiserer Donald Rumsfeld.

Den legendariske amerikanske journalist Bob Woodward, bedst kendt for sine afsløringer i Watergate-skandalen der væltede den amerikanske præsident Richard Nixon, kritiserer i skarpe vendinger forhenværende forsvarsminister Donald Rumsfeld i et gæsteindlæg på Foreign Policy's site:

Rumsfeld's memoir is one big clean-up job, a brazen effort to shift blame to others -- including President Bush -- distort history, ignore the record or simply avoid discussing matters that cannot be airbrushed away. It is a travesty, and I think the rewrite job won't wash.

The Iraq War is essential to the understanding of the Bush presidency and the Rumsfeld era at the Pentagon. In the book, Rumsfeld tries to push so much off on Bush. That is fair because Bush made the ultimate decisions. But the record shows that it was Rumsfeld stoking the Iraq fires -- facts he has completely left out of his memoir...

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