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To: PROLIFE who wrote (28952)	10/3/2002 3:25:38 PM
From: Glenn Petersen	Respond to of 59480

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX WED OCT 03, 2002 09:11:38 ET XXXXX BUSH FIGHTS BACK IN BOOK: DETRACTORS 'ELITES', HILLARY 'IRRESPONSIBLE'; CONSIDERED DEATH PENALTY FOR 'PATHETIC' LINDH Exclusive President Bush watched in disbelief when New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton went to the Senate floor and brandished the infamous NEW YORK POST 9/11 headline: "BUSH KNEW". “What bothered me was the fact that somebody would be so irresponsible and kind of stirring up a bunch of wonderful Americans that somehow I wouldn’t have done what was necessary," Bush reveals in a new book set for release. "Yes, it bothered me.” In FIGHTING BACK: THE WAR ON TERRORISM FROM INSIDE THE BUSH WHITE HOUSE, the president -- for the first time -- sounds off on critics who were “somehow questioning my courage in the face of danger” because he did not immediately return to the White House after the attacks. Bush calls his detractors “elites, these kind of professor types that love to read their names in the newspaper,” author Bill Sammon reports. MORE FIGHTING BACK, the first book on the Bush presidency, will be published by REGNERY on Monday. But the DRUDGE REPORT can give you the first preview. [FIGHTING BACK ranked 88,720 on AMAZON's sales hit parade early Wednesday.] FIGHTING BACK provides the most comprehensive historical account of how the war on terrorism has transformed the presidency of George W. Bush, who until Sept. 11 was dismissed by Democrats as a hopeless political lightweight. MORE Bush wanted the death penalty for John Walker Lindh if prosecutors could prove the “American Taliban” had killed CIA agent Mike Spann, according to Sammon. In FIGHTING BACK, Bush calls Lindh, who will be sentenced tomorrow, “a pathetic figure. I was angry at anybody who took up arms against America. “But I want to know whether or not he killed the CIA guy, that’s what I want to know. I want to know whether he murdered one of our fine citizens,” the president tells Sammon during extensive interviews on Air Force One and in the Oval Office. “Had he done so, we would have thrown the ultimate book at him. But our people, our prosecutors don’t feel that’s the case.” Instead of trying Lindh for treason, a capital crime, prosecutors are allowing him to plea bargain to lesser charges and are recommending a prison term of 20 years, which is subject to a federal judge’s approval tomorrow. “Now he gets to spend 20 years, no parole,” Bush tells Sammon, author of last year’s NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller AT ANY COST. “The decision he made puts him away for a long time.” As senior White House correspondent for the TIMES, Sammon was with Bush on Sept. 11, 2001, and has meticulously amassed the most detailed behind-the-scenes narrative of the president’s frantic day and the hours that led up to it. The award-winning reporter also provides a gripping look at a day that was nearly as important – Sept. 14, when Bush began to move the shellshocked nation from grief at the National Cathedral into action at Ground Zero. • The president also discloses his dismay with the press for prematurely and erroneously pronouncing the war in Afghanistan a failure. “’Quagmire,’ ‘Vietnam,’” Bush mutters to Sammon. “I mean, we were at this thing for three weeks, and all of a sudden there was kind of a breathless condemnation of the strategy.” • During a weekend with lawmakers at Camp David in the midst of the war, Bush was disgusted by a scene in the movie “Black Hawk Down” in which the Clinton administration refuses to give American soldiers heavy armor to defend themselves in Somalia. Eighteen U.S. soldiers were killed by al Qaeda-trained Somalis. “Fighting Back” captures the swirling Washington milieu in which Bush battled not just Osama bin Laden’s terrorists, but also Democratic operatives and journalistic naysayers who were questioning the administration’s every move. It provides revealing details of crucial decisions by everyone from George W. Bush to Bob Beckwith, the old fireman who encountered the president at Ground Zero. The book also examines the question of whether Bush was transformed by Sept. 11 or whether he is the same man he always was. And it chronicles the emergence of “post-terror patriots,” a new breed of swing voters who could play a crucial role in the elections of 2002 and 2004. The WASHINGTON TIMES will begin running excerpts of the book next week, according to publishing sources. Developing... ----------------------------------------------------------- Filed By Matt Drudge Reports are moved when circumstances warrant drudgereport.com for updates (c)DRUDGE REPORT 2002 Not for reproduction without permission of the author