Reply #7: My thoughts on the book [View All]

[shockingelk]

It is stupendous. It brings up some issues I was unaware of, particularly the part about how Bush's determination on the Iraq authorization was "spurious" as Dean put it. It's written persuasively and the factual claims are painstakingly documented. It has a great index too. I'm hoping a lot of fence-sitters take up the book and read it.

I do think it would have been a better argument had Dean waited until he had started to present his case before he started using language like "dissembling" and "lying". Also, there were a few places where the argument being made is a stretch - like questioning the difference in the numbers cited by Powell and Bush on alleged Iraqi anthrax stockpiles - Bush* said "more than 25,000 tons" Powell said "about 26,000 tons" - they said the same thing citing different numbers - they did not contradict each other.