Woodward Tells King: Book Could Have Been Called 'Crisis'

Appearing with Larry King on his CNN show Monday night, Bob Woodward repeated much of what has already come out from his new book “State of Denial,” but also added new information and commentary. Highlighting why he feels so strongly about the book, he said the alternate title for it was, “Crisis.” He explained: “This is a big war. Henry Kissinger said this is more important that Vietnam.” Woodward said of the war: “It’s going south.” He also revealed that Donald Rumsfeld had told him that he had seen a copy of the speech Bush was to deliver on the aircraft carrier in May 2003 —with the Mission Accomplished banner behind him – and that the speech originally contained “mission accomplished” in the text. Rumsfeld said he got that deleted but the banner stayed. This shoots down, Woodward suggested, the claim that the Navy independently put up the banner.