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To: LindyBill who wrote (68309)	1/24/2003 8:27:29 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (2) of 281500

Wonder what Lewis will say when after President Bush does give the evidence about Iraq and the situation re WMD? Perhaps then Lewis will find out the real reason Bob Woodward didn't go into what actually happened between Sept 11th, and the decision to go to war with Iraq....? After all, Woodward must have had to sign papers stating he could not divulge any secret information until after the President did... But, what a book that would be....The circle in a circle.... Another thing....evidently Lewis believes that people need to be led by the brain so they will know what to think....that it's not enough to just put "what happened day by day into clear prose", and leave the judgement to the reader.... "But it is history of a curious kind, lacking the essentials of a historian's work: context, analysis, a point of view. Woodward might well disclaim the title "historian." He has no point of view, he would say. He aims simply to tell us what happened, item by item. The absence of analysis makes Bush at War a frustrating book. Page after page raises questions in the reader's mind that Woodward does not mention, much less try to answer. Again and again one wants to know how we got from A to B. A critical example is when and how the war on terrorism was transmuted into a war on Iraq."

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