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![]() ![]() "Absolutely we're winning," the president said. was losing the war, but the president didn't give a hint of that in public. Woodward reports that a secret study for the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 2006 concluded that the U.S. "On July 20th, the top secret special compartmented information report that went directly to him quotes from an intelligence report saying, 'Violence is so out of hand, so extensive that it is self-sustaining,'" Woodward said. What was the president hearing about what was going on in Iraq?" Pelley asked. "You've obtained a number of documents, classified secret that the president was receiving in this period of time. Kill the bastards,' and that way we'll succeed," Woodward told Pelley. We are not playing for a tie.' And this is Bush's concern that we're not going out and killing in fact, Casey told one colleague privately that the president's view is almost reflective of 'Kill the bastards. ![]() ![]() "It gets so intense that in one of the secure video conferences between Washington and Baghdad the president says to Casey, 'George, we're not playing for a tie.' And Casey's knuckles, according to witnesses, literally go white as he's gripping the table. On the other hand, if I'm sitting here watching the casualties come in, I'd at least like to know whether or not our soldiers are fighting," the president explained in one of Woodward's recorded interviews. Because the perception is that our guys are dying and they're not, because we don't put out numbers. "I ask that, on occasion, to find out whether or not we were fighting back. Bush told Woodward that he was frustrated with his commanders - and asked for enemy body counts so he could keep score. The book is based on more than 150 interviews, including recorded conversations with the president. casualties mounted during Iraq's plunge toward civil war. "The War Within," published by CBS-owned Simon & Schuster, tracks the growing alarm inside the White House in 2006, as U.S. "The records of the joint chiefs show that the idea of five brigades came from the White House, not from anybody except the White House." "The president, who has said in public, endless times, that he relies on his generals to tell him what they need, is actually going his own way here," Pelley remarked. ![]()
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