White House rejects claim in new Woodward book
source: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/08/woodward.whitehouse/index.html
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The White House on Monday firmly rejected new allegations that President Bush ignored commanders in Iraq and top military advisers in Washington when he decided to send more troops to Iraq in 2007.
The claim appears in a new book by top Washington journalist Bob Woodward who has written a series of books about the Bush presidency.
"I don't necessarily think that the conclusions are supported by a lot of the facts in the book," White House Press Secretary Dana Perino said shortly after the book went on sale Monday.
In "The War Within: Secret White House History 2006-2008," Woodward, the associate editor of the Washington Post, asserts the White House forced what became known as the "surge" strategy on military commanders and on the president's principal military advisers, the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Woodward reports the Joint Chiefs had not recommended a troop increase, and were worried U.S. troops were over-extended.
They instead wanted to focus more effort on training Iraqi security forces so U.S. troops could start to head home, according to Woodward. When approached with the White House's plan to deploy five more combat brigades, Woodward says, the chiefs and colonels thought it was overly ambitious -- but could not sway the president.
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The claim appears in a new book by top Washington journalist Bob Woodward who has written a series of books about the Bush presidency.
"I don't necessarily think that the conclusions are supported by a lot of the facts in the book," White House Press Secretary Dana Perino said shortly after the book went on sale Monday.
In "The War Within: Secret White House History 2006-2008," Woodward, the associate editor of the Washington Post, asserts the White House forced what became known as the "surge" strategy on military commanders and on the president's principal military advisers, the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Woodward reports the Joint Chiefs had not recommended a troop increase, and were worried U.S. troops were over-extended.
They instead wanted to focus more effort on training Iraqi security forces so U.S. troops could start to head home, according to Woodward. When approached with the White House's plan to deploy five more combat brigades, Woodward says, the chiefs and colonels thought it was overly ambitious -- but could not sway the president.
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