Country First, but not for Bob Woodward and The Washington Post.

America First by Deed

In another transparent attempt to influence the outcome of the US Presidential Election, another fame seeking skunk, Bob Woodward, reveals that it was not the surge of troops that turned things around, it was classified US spying.

Manipulation of the news, at the expense of US lives, for purposes of ideology by unpatriotic and self-appointed political operatives of the Left is an acceptable practice of the American MSM and their supporters in the Democratic Party, as long as it serves their political interests.

John McCain, in flat but forthright terms, talked about a life of service and sacrifice dedicated to US security. John McCain's physical stature shows the battle scars of the noble path he took in life. John McCain walked the walk his detractors would and did avoid. His actions and life services to country place John McCain in rare and secretly envied company.

How ironic and helpful of the pathetic munchkins in the leftist media to select this moment to juxtapose their treachery to his patriotism. (I do not use either term lightly.) It should help America make a choice of the type of man that belongs in the White House to lead, protect and preserve our country.

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U.S. Spied on Iraqi Leaders, Book Says
Woodward Also Reveals That Political Fears Kept War Strategy Review 'Under the Radar'

By Steve Luxenberg
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, September 5, 2008
The Bush administration has conducted an extensive spying operation on Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, his staff and others in the Iraqi government, according to a new book by Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward.


U.S. Spied on Iraqi Leaders, Book Says
Full Coverage: Bob Woodward

"We know everything he says," according to one of multiple sources Woodward cites about the practice in "The War Within: A Secret White House History, 2006-2008," scheduled for release Monday.

The book also says that the U.S. troop "surge" of 2007, in which President Bush sent nearly 30,000 additional U.S. combat forces and support troops to Iraq, was not the primary factor behind the steep drop in violence there during the past 16 months.

Rather, Woodward reports, "groundbreaking" new covert techniques enabled U.S. military and intelligence officials to locate, target and kill insurgent leaders and key individuals in extremist groups such as al-Qaeda in Iraq.

Woodward does not disclose the code names of these covert programs or provide much detail about them, saying in the book that White House and other officials cited national security concerns in asking him to withhold specifics.

Overall, Woodward writes, four factors combined to reduce the violence: the covert operations; the influx of troops; the decision by militant cleric Moqtada al-Sadr to rein in his powerful Mahdi Army; and the so-called Anbar Awakening, in which tens of thousands of Sunnis turned against al-Qaeda in Iraq and allied with U.S. forces.

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