Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld memoirs reveal administration's internal
battlesUpcoming accounts could offer new insights on issues ranging
from Iraq and Guantánamo to hurricane Katrina
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Ewen MacAskill in Washington guardian.co.uk, Friday 1 January 2010
17.49 GMT Article history
George Bush and Dick Cheney at a White House meeting in January 2007.
Photograph: Roger L. Wollenberg/Getty Images
He established a reputation as one of the most secretive vice-
presidents in US history, largely shunning journalists and refusing to
disclose the names of those visiting his West Wing office. But these
days, the publicity-averse Dick Cheney is busily tapping away at a
laptop in his home in McLean, Virginia, threatening to reveal all.
Donald Rumsfeld. Photograph: Susan Walsh/AP Cheney is writing his
autobiography, one of a glut of Bush era memoirs due out in the coming
months. Others lining up to offer their account of the Bush years are
the former president himself, his wife Laura, former defence secretary
Donald Rumsfeld, former deputy White House chief of staff Karl Rove
and former Treasury secretary Hank Paulson.
Many political memoirs, such as Bill Clinton's, have proven in the
past to be a largely unrevealing, but the Bush White House was the
most leak-free in recent US history and the upcoming accounts offer
the intriguing prospect of new insights into the turf wars and
internal battles over issues from Guantánamo, Iraq and Hurricane
Katrina to the Wall Street bail-out.
One of the first to appear is Paulson's account of the global economic
meltdown, On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the
Global Financial System. The book, due out this month, is expected to
offer a glimpse at Bush's reaction to the collapse of the Lehman
brothers in September 2008.
In March comes Rove's Courage and Consequence: My Life as a
Conservative in the Fight . Rove, the political strategist who helped
get Bush elected, could answer questions ranging from the dirty tricks
operations in the 2000 primary campaign, to the scandal over the
leaking of the identity of a CIA operative.
Rumsfeld, the defence secretary whose decision to invade Iraq with a
relatively small force, was blamed for the anarchy and insurgency that
followed, offers up his memoirs in the autumn, as does Bush himself.
Bush's account, Decision Points covers about a dozen key moments in
the former president's life, including giving up alcohol, nominating
Cheney as his vice-president, invading Iraq and his slow response to
Hurricane Katrina.
Steve Clemons, director of the liberal think-tank the New America
Foundation, said the prospect of so many insider accounts was
significant. "At the start of the Bush presidency, the US was still
powerful: militarily, economically and even in moral leadership. What
we saw was the collapse of that, and I want to see if there is any
accounting. I think these books are much more important than other
memoirs."
He added: "I think the big issue in these memoirs is the degree that
people use them to fight the battles of the Bush administration. Will
the Rumsfeld-Cheney wing use it to get back at Bush himself and Condi
(Rice)? I suspect Bush will not say much. I think he will try to
smooth over some of the rougher edges of the rows."
The publishing companies are largely coy about how much each will be
paid. Bush is reported to have been offered $7m (£4.3m), half of what
Clinton received. Rove, now a commentator at Fox News, is reported to
have a deal worth $2m.
Rumsfeld's publisher, Adrian Zackheim, who runs Sentinel, a New York-
based imprint of Penguin said Rumsfeld had not been given an advance.
The former defence secretary would be given a share of the revenue and
planned to donate all of it to charity.
Earlier this year, Rumsfeld, who has kept a low profile since leaving
office, told Associated Press: "This will be a story that will span my
lifetime. It will be something that I will try hard to make very fair,
honest and useful."
Cheney's book is not due out until next Spring, but is potentially the
most interesting. Not only was he at the centre of most events, he is
one of the most ideological members of the administration, and is
unrepentant over decisions from waterboarding to the Iraq invasion.
Cashing in on political memoirs
Karl Rove
Former deputy White House chief of staff's book Courage and
Consequence will be published on 9 March by Simon and Schuster's
Threshold Editions, a conservative imprint. Deal reported by US media
at $2m.
Donald Rumsfeld
To be published in the autumn by Sentinel, an imprint of Penguin. No
advance for the former defence secretary, share of proceeds to go to
charity.
George W Bush
Autobiography, tentatively titled Decision Points, to be published by
Crown. Deal estimated at $7m.
Laura Bush
Memoir due in the spring from Scribner. Deal may be worth more than
her husband's. US media put it at $8m.
Dick Cheney
Scheduled for spring 2011. The former vice-president shares publisher
with Rove. Deal estimated at $2m.
Ha, ha, ha. Fox is "the haters of the left".
Your Freudian slip is showing, fella.
Hey, it was YOUR ambiguous statement.
Dan
Yes, why the Focus on the Bush/Cheny Connection, is your man Obama
not getting the job done, slipping in the Polls, Not giving you all
that 'Hope and Change" that you al were too stupid to see as lies and
deception! Thats OK, 2010 is here and tme to take out the Trash! 2012,
we can Bifd a Grand Goodbye to the 'Hope and Change we now know to be
Lie and decieve!
RON
Indeed. And most of those who hate the Left will be rising up in less
than 3 yrs and killing all the Leftards in the country.
Then ABC/NBC/CBS/CNN wont have any staff or viewers.
Gunner
"I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the
means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not
making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of
it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different
countries, that the more public provisions were made for the
poor the less they provided for themselves, and of course became
poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the
more they did for themselves, and became richer." -- Benjamin
Franklin, /The Encouragement of Idleness/, 1766
> On Jan 2, 3:34�pm, cop welfare <cop.welf...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/01/bush-cheney-rumsfeld-
memoirs
>>
>> Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld memoirs reveal administration's internal
>> battlesUpcoming accounts could offer new insights on issues ranging
>> from Iraq and Guant�namo to Snipped for Typical Leftist Crap!
>
>
> Change were as lies and Change were to be Lie and Goodbye to be Lie
> and deception, is here and tme to the Trash! 2012, we can Bifd a Grand
> Change were as lies and tme too stupid to the Focus on that 'Hope and
> decieve! Yes, why the 'Hope and Change we now know to be Lie and
> deception! That you al we can Bifd a Grand tme to the Bush/Cheny
> Connection! That your man Obama not giving your man Obama not giving in
> that 'Hope and deception! That 'Hope and deception, is here and Goodbye
> to see and deception.
>
>
> RON
One of your more lucid postings...
--
Regards, Curly
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"what would the haters of the left do woithout Fox?"
count me in as one of the illiterates, then.
that's how i read it.
fox a bunch of haters.
but i don't think they really hate so much.
they're paid liars.
The fact that you cannot see the obvious ambiguity of the statement
means WHO is "illiterate," again???
I WAS cutting you some slack,a s the author of the statement, but if you
are going to get huffy when others point out a simple error, the gloves
will come off.
Now, as an exercise, in the song LOLA (Kinks), what does "And I'm glad
I'm a man, and so is Lola." mean???
Dan
So, now, Runner is hoping to exterminate well over 75% of the population.
Interesting...
He started out modestly, and his fantasy has grown by leaps and bounds.
Dan
Gummer has a large usenet audience watching his emotional, physical and
mental meltdown with interest. In a way it's like watching an old
Charley Chan movie trying to guess what weird shit he's going to post
next.
I'm not sure how he's going to top last week's admission of gay sex but
am eagerly awaiting another freudian slip.
The phrase "haters of the left" is ambiguous: it could mean haters <on>
the left ("of" having a possessive form), or those who hate the left.
Which did you mean?
> See post below. A common literary phrase.
Hardly, and ambiguous in the context given (as pointed out several times
by at least two people more conversant with the language than you appear
to be).
> Misunderstood
because of its ambiguity.
> (by those that wanted to).
I had no reason to "want to." I could easily have argued agaisnt the
content, were it clear.
> And when have you ever cut me slack
The 99% of your posts I could but choose not respond to...
> if I said something critical of Lord 0bama?
Why do you keep referring to our current President as "Lord Obama?" It
makes you appear silly (not that you need extra help).
>> Now, as an exercise, in the song LOLA (Kinks), what does "And I'm glad
>> I'm a man, and so is Lola." mean???
>
> Don't know. The Beatles Ob-la-di, ob-la-da certainly let's you have a
> few interesting options. Same ones probably.
If you would ever pay attention, I was offering you an example of
ambiguity in the common culture. If you are not interested, fine - you
can choose not to respond any time.
Dan
I wonder what his native language is.
Dan
That makes two old timers melting down: Runner and Strabo. Each in his
own way, but both steadily leaving the realm of reality.
Dan
And a third, who seems ready for a massive coronary, Bob Milby.
> Dan
Maybe I'm turning christian. Watching their meltdown is amusing even
thought it tickles a bit of guilt...
I have to admit, I never saw Bob as a rational human being. Musta been
before my time.
>> Dan
>
> Maybe I'm turning christian. Watching their meltdown is amusing even
> thought it tickles a bit of guilt...
Nah, it is just sad. Especially Strabo - he used to be a source of new
and different info, now he just repeats himself about the good old days.
Dan
>Curly Surmudgeon wrote:
>> On Sat, 02 Jan 2010 17:31:37 -0800, RONSERESURPLUS
>> <ronsere...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Jan 2, 3:34?pm, cop welfare <cop.welf...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/01/bush-cheney-rumsfeld-
>> memoirs
>>>> Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld memoirs reveal administration's internal
>>>> battlesUpcoming accounts could offer new insights on issues ranging
>>>> from Iraq and Guant?namo to Snipped for Typical Leftist Crap!
>>>
>>
>>> Change were as lies and Change were to be Lie and Goodbye to be Lie
>>> and deception, is here and tme to the Trash! 2012, we can Bifd a Grand
>>> Change were as lies and tme too stupid to the Focus on that 'Hope and
>>> decieve! Yes, why the 'Hope and Change we now know to be Lie and
>>> deception! That you al we can Bifd a Grand tme to the Bush/Cheny
>>> Connection! That your man Obama not giving your man Obama not giving in
>>> that 'Hope and deception! That 'Hope and deception, is here and Goodbye
>>> to see and deception.
>>>
>>>
>>> RON
>>
>> One of your more lucid postings...
LOL I rarely read them because they're too hard to decipher. But I
read that one, and I'm somewhat sure I understand it. Which is not
necessarily a good thing... :-)
>>
>
>I wonder what his native language is.
Heinz 57?
Wayne
Well, I was playing with the retard:
http://thinkzone.wlonk.com/Gibber/GibGen.htm
I like languages and try to understand what people are saying.
RONSERESURPLUS occupies a special place below those functional in any
language, below the autistic near the retards.
Or maybe among the retards.
>>I wonder what his native language is.
>
> Heinz 57?
>
> Wayne
--
Liars?? What have the lied about??
"Death Panels"
"Pallin' around with terrorists"
WMD in Iraq
Just for a start.
Chris
>
>"Sueki Tartridge" Liars?? What have the lied about??
>
>
> "Death Panels"
Actual fact.
>
> "Pallin' around with terrorists"
Acutal fact.
>
> WMD in Iraq
Very much of a fact.
>
>
> Just for a start.
>
> Chris
>
Seems Chris is a liar. Odd how Leftwingers are always liars no?
Seems to come as part and parcel of their extreme mental health
problems.
well....
there you go AGIN!!!!!
hahahahahaha
what have they lied about???
practically EVERYTHING!!!!\
(of course they DO differentiate between fox 'news' and fox 'punditz'.
but do you?
probably not.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/20/the-ten-most-egregious-fo_n_327140.html
http://digg.com/politics/Screencaps_of_Fox_news_lies
http://trueslant.com/christopherthomas/2009/09/20/lies-liars-and-accountability-fox-news-is-having-a-bad-week/
examples of fox news lies list of fox news lies glenn beck lies barack
obama lies
hillary clinton lies sarah palin lies sean hannity lies michelle
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OOOOOH!!!! Very good...veryveryvery Good indeed!!
Thanks! Bookmarked for use as ammo against Leftards!!
The ones that can read, that is.
Gunner
'yeh, bu-bu-bu-but...OBAMA!!!!
waaaahhhhh....
my daddy kin whup YER dadddy!!!!
waaaaahhhh...'
whiner
so IF obama is the worst liar in the world does that make it alright
for fox 'news' to make it up as it goes along?
they're a bunch of sociopathic compulsive unrepentant liars.
and they KNOW it!
(that's what bothers me.)
(shrug)
hahahahahah
hahahahahah
hahahahahah
hahahahaaah
So you're admitting Obama is a liar? Does that make you proud?? Just
like Alinsky said. The ends shall justify the means as long as you get
what you want.
It wasn't ambiguous to anybody with a brain.
Bring it.
Well, let's see, there was the couple of times that Jon Stewart caught
you making up news footage, and that's just the last month or so.
Its coming. Are you prepared for it?
Dodging the question, way to go.
Meanwhile, you refer to a hack job of a webpage to prove Obama's
"lies". For example, they claimed Obama lied about having an agenda
to become President because of an essay "I want to be President" that
he wrote in middle school. You've gotta be pretty desperate if you're
digging up grade school essays.
>> Indeed. And most of those who hate the Left will be rising up in less
>> than 3 yrs and killing all the Leftards in the country.
>>
>> Then ABC/NBC/CBS/CNN wont have any staff or viewers.
>>
>> Gunner
Two problems with that:
1) Gummer doesn't have the balls to carry out his threats of violence.
2) Gummer has confessed to being a Democrat.
So when a Leftard does it..its simply journalism..but if anyone to the
Right of Karl Marx does...its a hack job?
you're a little SLOW, you know...
but i don't hold it against you particularly.
there's so many like you.
i blame the media and your diet.
for some reason you all seem to have attained not only"group mind" but
also "group stupidity", one of the pitfalls (inevitable?).
i'm not admitting anything.
i don't even CARE,really
I DON'T SEE HOW *ANYBODY* COULD BE AS BIG A LIAR AS THE FOX NEWS
PUNDIT IN GENERAL.
'if' was the key word.
'if'.
did you get that?
(admit it. you do this to annoy ppl, right?)
Just turn it into a noun, 'haters-of-the-left', and preclude the waste
of all this brainpower.
Where's all that promised "transparency"? Where's the "Most ethical
Administration in human history" he promised? Does he have lobbyists
on his payroll? How many $MILLIONS were spent to create/save" jobs in
those non-existent Texas districts?? Do you believe Obama sat in
Rev.Wright's "Black Liberation Theology"church for 20+ years yet NEVER
heard a racist rant from his mentor and spiritual advisor?? Do you
beleive Obama has no ties to Bill Ayers,George Soros,SEIU.ACORN or the
Apollo Alliance? Do you beleive Obama never taught Saul Alinsky
politics in college? Do you beleive Obama is a spread the wealth
marxist? Just for starters.
"You don't see"? That's the problem with you far left fringe
ObokookBot anarchist wannabes. You're so blinded by partisan
politics,so poisoned by the Obama kool-aid,so terrified Obama will
fail,scared to death you won't get cradle to grave support by big
government that you don't "SEE" what Obama and his puppetmasters in
congress are trying to do to the country. What's even worse your poor
drug addled brain has been brainwashed by the Bill Ayers approved
"Blame America first" curriculum being taught in gubmint schools that
you actually beleive the United States is the most evil,tyrancal
country on the planet and we need to be brought down to the level of
Zimbabwe because we use most of the world's resources and are
responsible for "Gorelobal warming" because of our greed and opulent
lifestyle.
what i "beleive" is that you live too close to an 'awl" refinery.
I beleive you're 12 years old or the equivalent.
Pretty easy to prepare for an assault by retards.
If you're digging up grade school essays about wanting to be
President, then yes, hit's a hack job whether it's left, right or
center.
So far, he's been head and shoulders above everyone back to Carter.
> Does he have lobbyists
> on his payroll?
Why would he pay lobbyists, idiot? If anything, lobbyists would pay
HIM.
> How many $MILLIONS were spent to create/save" jobs in
> those non-existent Texas districts??
None. Not Obama's fault that some Texan morons couldn't write in the
right district number.
>Do you believe Obama sat in
> Rev.Wright's "Black Liberation Theology"church for 20+ years yet NEVER
> heard a racist rant from his mentor and spiritual advisor??
Did he even visit that church for 20+ years? ANd hell yeah,
considering the amount of church I've missed I can believe it.
> Do you
> beleive Obama has no ties to Bill Ayers,
Talked to him a couple of times decades ago. How many Saudi scumbags
did Bush court?
>George Soros,
Nothing wrong with him.
>SEIU.
Nothing wrong with them either.
>ACORN
Does good work. The idiotic actions of one volunteer does nothing to
change it.
>or the
> Apollo Alliance?
Who?
>Do you beleive Obama never taught Saul Alinsky
> politics in college?
Who?
> Do you beleive Obama is a spread the wealth
> marxist?
Nope.
> Just for starters.
Just for starters, you got nothing.
> On Jan 4, 7:15 pm, Gunner Asch <gun...@lightspeed.net> wrote:
Tie wrapping their thumbs together not only works well but is infinitely
amusing.
Here's some more:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/11/jon-stewart-catches-sean_n_353447.html
And:
'You don't see"? That's the problem with you far left fringe
ObokookBot anarchist wannabes. You're so blinded by partisan
politics,so poisoned by the Obama kool-aid,so terrified Obama will
fail,scared to death you won't get cradle to grave support by big
government that you don't "SEE" what Obama and his puppetmasters in
congress are trying to do to the country. What's even worse your poor
drug addled brain has been brainwashed by the Bill Ayers approved
"Blame America first" curriculum being taught in gubmint schools that
you actually beleive the United States is the most evil,tyrancal
country on the planet and we need to be brought down to the level of
Zimbabwe because we use most of the world's resources and are
responsible for "Gorelobal warming" because of our greed and opulent
lifestyle. ' - NOT A SINGLE CITE! not a single one.
it has been my opinion that we are a third-world country (with a first
world military) for some time now.
who is to blame for that, sasha?
did you do your assignment?
perhaps you need new underpinnings for your iron underpants.
Dunno. But I'd be willing to bet you blame Nixon,Reagan,Bush 1 and
Bush 2 while giving Jimmuh and Bubba a complete pass. Am I right??
do you snap your chewing-gum, too?