Watergate journalist's new book exposes how Bush has kept the US public in the dark about the true costs of the 'war on terror'

 

President George Bush was braced for one of the toughest fights of his political life yesterday as a fierce row broke out over whether he has been misleading the American public over the worsening violence in Iraq. The crisis also rippled across the Atlantic with claims that the administration hid crucial Iraq intelligence from its British allies.

Sparking the crisis was a series of leaks from a hard-hitting new book by the political journalist Bob Woodward, one of the two Washington Post reporters who broke the Watergate scandal that engulfed the Nixon administration three decades ago.

The author's first television interview on the Iraq book is due to be shown this evening on the CBS show 60 Minutes, and is expected to ignite a huge row over the conduct of the war. The book lifts the lid on an administration in crisis, claiming that Bush and his top officials have deliberately covered up the seriousness of the violence in the war-torn country

 

 

Can Woodward damage the Bush presidency like he did Nixon’s?

 

 

 

Can Woodward damage the Bush presidency like he did Nixon’s?

 

Here's hoping history can repeat itself.... And frankly, I would say that lying about a war is significantly worse than what happened during Watergate....