(H/B) STATE OF DENIAL

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''State of Denial'' examines how the Bush administration avoided telling the truth about Iraq to the public, to Congress, and often to themselves. Two days after the May report, the Pentagon told Congress, in a report required by law, that the 'appeal and motivation for continued violent action will begin to wane in early 2007'. In this detailed inside story of a war-torn White House, Bob Woodward reveals how White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card, with the indirect support of other high officials, tried for eighteen months to get Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld replaced. The President and Vice-President Cheney refused. At the beginning of Bush's second term, Stephen Hadley, who replaced Condoleezza Rice as national security adviser, gave the administration a 'D minus' on implementing its policies. A SECRET report to the new Secretary of State Rice stated that, nearly two years after the invasion, Iraq was a 'failed state'. (ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΙΑΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΕΚΔΟΣΗΣ)