A New York Times author portrays Bush as "hell—bent on war with Iraq" in the first sentence of her article. But then DISPROVES her own spin by later on, by depicitng a questioning and wavering Bush disparaging Tenet's and the CIA's evidence of WMD.

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As anyone paying the slightest attention in Washington knows, the White House spent last week aiming a hose at the political fires set off by Bob Woodward's new book, "Plan of Attack," which portrays President Bush as hellbent on war with Iraq
 
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The book does portray Mr. Bush as the central decision maker, a chief executive who orders, over objections from his staff, that Iran remain part of the "axis of evil" in his State of the Union speech, and who sharply questions his C.I.A. director, George J. Tenet, after a C.I.A. presentation on the evidence of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.

"I've been told all this intelligence about having W.M.D. and this is the best we've got?" Mr. Bush says.

Case closed.

Posted by Ed  04 26 04