Since you agree that he is just cashing in, do you think you could read this book and believe it all without question?

No, but I might see it as the testimony of one of many witnesses, albeit a key one.
Think of it as large square of cloth near the center of a quilt....

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You meet the same folks on the way up as you do on the way down.

Very true, the fact is there have been a few people to leave the Bush regime and say the same things. One witness might be just sour grapes but when it turns into 3 ,4 witnesses then sour grapes is rarely the issue.

Such as Obama trivia smear threads? In case you haven't noticed we already have that happening. The number of threads does not relate to rules but trolling does.

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DrakeJ:

Why didn't he blow the whistle a few years ago? Coming out like this is a decision to retire, or more specifically commit career suicide. Think of the proceeds from his book being his pension.

Unfortunately, we don't have Pulitzer Prize level investigative reporters around anymore like Bernstein and Woodward that broke open the story about Watergate.

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He's not retiring. He'll make a killing as a talking head on CNN and speaking tours. He'll make more money and have better hours than ever before.
He didn't blow the whistle because highly educated and/or skilled guys wearing $1000 suits and tassled loafers can still get caught up in their own "romantic" notions of job and career path. It's that pot at the end of the rainbow for many--working for a president or a powerful corporation. Kissinger said "Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac", BTW.
Somewhat akin to learning for decades how to walk in high heels and curtsey and finally, at long last, getting asked to go to the prom. Then you get to the big dance and find out the band sucks, the punch is awful, and your date (and his friends) is a lying jerk.

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You meet the same folks on the way up as you do on the way down.

That is the problem with this country we have officials in positions of power that would sit there through the makings of an "unjust" war because they are afraid of losing their job. What happened to doing the right thing. If I saw something horrible going on in my work place I would speak up about it even if it got me fired. If no on listened I would simply quit because I am not going to be apart of it. I really cannot respect this guy all that much, that is great he is "speaking out" but he should have done it when he could have actually made a difference.

Yes, that's what you might do, but not him. You're 22, and he's 50. He's from a different century, a different world. For him, it was more important to be important. This was a dream come true.

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You meet the same folks on the way up as you do on the way down.

And this is assuming he knew what was happening when it happened. He easily could have been duped and lied to like the rest of us. Perhaps once he found out the truth, he started to put the pieces together and got pissed off.

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Again, people get caught up in all sorts of things while in search of power.

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You meet the same folks on the way up as you do on the way down.

He's a little weasel who finally decided to cash in and tell the truth after lying to us all those years.