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End of the Iraq War Obama Speech

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Free Resource - September 2, 2010
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On Tuesday of this week President Obama announced the end of the combat mission in Iraq. You can watch the 20 minute video of the speech here:

"The End of the Combat Mission in Iraq" Speech by President Barack Obama

Bush at War

This talk was delivered by investigative reporter Bob Woodward about 7 years ago shortly after the Iraq War began and after Saddam Hussein was removed from power. Without the hindsight of what the outcome of the war would be, Woodward tries to portray the actions of President George W. Bush after 9/11 in the most objective way he can. The first in his three book series on Bush at War includes information he gathered from numerous interviews he had with George W. Bush. The last half of this talk includes Q&A about the Bush administration and their decision to go to war in Iraq. This talk is available on streaming audio and MP3 download from the Miller Center of Public Affairs.

Bush at War

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Plan of Attack

Plan of Attack is the definitive account of how and why President George W. Bush, his war council, and allies launched a preemptive attack to topple Saddam Hussein and occupy Iraq. Bob Woodward's latest landmark account of Washington decision making provides an original, authoritative narrative of behind-the-scenes maneuvering, examining the causes and consequences of the most controversial war since Vietnam.

Based on interviews with 75 key participants and more than three-and-a half hours of exclusive interviews with President Bush, "Plan of Attack" is part presidential history charting the decisions made during 16 critical months; part military history; and part a harrowing spy story as the CIA dispatches a covert paramilitary team into northern Iraq six months before the start of the war.

What emerges are astonishingly intimate portraits: President Bush in war cabinet meetings and in private conversation; Dick Cheney, the focused and driven vice president; Colin Powell, the conflicted and cautious secretary of state; Donald Rumsfeld, the controlling war technocrat; George Tenet, the activist CIA director; Tommy Franks, the profane and demanding general; Condoleezza Rice, the ever-present referee and national security adviser; Karl Rove, the hands-on political strategist; other key members of the White House staff and congressional leadership; and foreign leaders ranging from British Prime Minister Blair to Russian President Putin.

"Plan of Attack" provides new details on the intelligence assessments of Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction and the planning for the war's aftermath.

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Listen to a free sample of: Plan of Attack

You might also be interested in Bob Woodward's other books on the Bush adminstration:

Bush at War

State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III

The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006-2008, Vol. 4

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