Must reading for all
ut Draper’s biggest find is a collection of daily cover sheets that Rumsfeld approved for the Secretary of Defense Worldwide Intelligence Update, a highly classified digest prepared for a tiny audience, including the president, and often delivered by hand to the White House by the defense secretary himself. These cover sheets greeted Bush each day with triumphal color photos of the war headlined by biblical quotations. GQ is posting 11 of them, and they are seriously creepy.
Take the one dated April 3, 2003, two weeks into the invasion, just as Shock and Awe hit its first potholes. Two days earlier, on April 1, a panicky Pentagon had begun spreading its hyped, fictional account of the rescue of Pvt. Jessica Lynch to distract from troubling news of setbacks. On April 2, Gen. Joseph Hoar, the commander in chief of the United States Central Command from 1991-94, had declared on the Times Op-Ed page that Rumsfeld had sent too few troops to Iraq. And so the Worldwide Intelligence Update for April 3 bullied Bush with Joshua 1:9: “
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go.
” (Including, as it happened, into a quagmire.)
Geeeeeee, I can’t understand why these ‘crazy’ muslim’s think this is a jihad…..
So it really was a crusade, just like Bush said.
The GQ article is a must-read, seriously.
Gen Hoar was passed over in the Joint Chiefs cycle, sour grapes.
Why the hatred of faith, would you prefer skull and cross bones on the cover?
Maybe Joe Biden gets his copy at the now disclosed ‘undisclosed’ location?
Mike Protack
You haven’t even looked at those covers — they were manipulative of a President who was hugely susceptible to it and, frankly, pretty unprofessional.
The GQ article is a must read. It is tough to know where to begin with that. Altho Bush not really being able to manage Rumsfeld pretty much stands in for all of it, yes?
why read stuff that has actual facts in it. it is easier to not read something and make idiotic comments about
could you even imagine a governor like this guy. You are so in over your head protack. good good man.
He probably found his competence level in arranging teabagging for the GOP.