In page after dreadful page of his latest book, Bush at War, Bob Woodward demonstrates an old adage about journalism in wartime: The first casualty is truth. Purporting to get inside the minds of President George W. Bush and his closest associates—and to tell us the ultimate truths about the “war on terrorism”—Woodward instead creates a clever fiction that obscures truth… return to article
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