This is another smear by a dubious site.
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That retrospective quoted the work of Bob Woodward, Rowland Evans, Robert Novak, Norman Solomon, Robert T. Parry and Alvin A. Snyder. (See bios below).
Instead of trying to distract by falsely discrediting the site, why not address the historical narrative the authors present? Such as:
In the book, Shadow, author Bob Woodward confirmed that Bush was adamant about fighting a war, even as the White House pretended that it would be satisfied with an unconditional Iraqi withdrawal.
“We have to have a war,” Bush told his inner circle of Secretary of State James Baker, national security adviser Brent Scowcroft and Powell, according to Woodward.
“Scowcroft was aware that this understanding could never be stated publicly or be permitted to leak out. An American president who declared the necessity of war would probably be thrown out of office. Americans were peacemakers, not warmongers,” Woodward wrote.
Robert Upshur Woodward rose from obscure reporter working for the Washington Post to become one of the most famous journalists of recent times for his role, with that of Carl Bernstein, in "breaking" the Watergate story. Together, "Woodstein" broke one of the biggest news stories of all time: a chain of abuse by the Executive office of the Presidency that led to calls for impeachment, and the eventual resignation, of President Richard Nixon.
Norman Solomon is currently executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, a nationwide consortium of public-policy researchers. He is the author of "Media Beat," a nationally syndicated column on media and politics that appears in the San Francisco Examiner and other daily newspapers. A longtime associate of FAIR, he has written op-ed articles on media issues for many papers, including the Boston Globe, Washington Post, Newsday, New York Times, Miami Herald, Los Angeles Times, USA Today and Baltimore Sun.
Robert T. Parry has served as president and chief executive of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco for the past 16 years. He is a voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee, bringing his District's perspective to monetary policy discussions.
Bob serves as Chairman of the San Francisco Bay Area Council. The Bay Area Council is a business-sponsored, CEO-led, public policy organization representing employers dedicated to promoting economic prosperity and quality of life in the region. He also serves on the Executive Committees of the Bay Area Economic Forum and the Boy Scouts of America, and is a director of the United Way of the Bay Area. A past president of the National Association for Business Economics, Bob is a director of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a member of the Advisory Board of the Pacific Rim Bankers Program.
A native of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Bob Parry received a B.A. degree from Gettysburg College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He earned an M.A. and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania, and holds honorary doctorates from Gettysburg College and Southern Utah University.
He began his career as an assistant professor of economics at the Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science. Dr. Parry first joined the Federal Reserve System at the Board of Governors in Washington, D.C., where he worked as a research economist for several years.
He left the Fed to join Security Pacific National Bank as vice president, where he moved up through the ranks to become executive vice president and chief economist of Security Pacific Corporation and its principal subsidiary, Security Pacific National Bank. He held that position until he accepted his present post at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco serves the Twelfth Federal Reserve District—the largest in the Federal Reserve System in terms of its economy and geography—which covers the nine western states, American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands.
Alvin A. Snyder is a Senior Fellow of The Annenberg Washington Program. He served as White House Special Assistant to President Richard Nixon and held senior executive news positions for almost two decades with CBS and NBC in New York and Chicago. Snyder also was a high-ranking communications official in the Ford and Reagan administrations. In 1982, he was appointed Director of Worldwide Television and Film Services for the U.S. Information Agency, where he supervised the establishment of the WORLDNET satellite system, now the largest global interactive television network, linking some 300 embassies and posts overseas with international TV stations and cable networks in more than 130 countries on six continents. Snyder received eleven television Emmys, five Associated Press awards, two International Film Festival awards, and a Grammy as a co-producer of the classic two-volume Columbia Records album, "Edward R. Murrow: A Reporter Remembers." He has written commentaries for The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, Scripps-Howard News Service, the Chicago Tribune, The Dallas Morning News, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Journal of Commerce, and other publications. Snyder is a graduate of the University of Miami, which he attended on full tuition scholarships from the Storer Broadcasting Company and the H.V. Kaltenborn Foundation. He was named the university's Most Distinguished Alumnus in 1986. |
