Tom’s review of Kurt Eichenwald’s '500 Days' in yesterday’s New York Times

Posted By Thomas E. Ricks Monday, October 8, 2012 - 6:35 AM Share

Here it is.

My favorite moment in the book is this.

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"After Bush told Jacques Chirac that biblical prophecies were being fulfilled and specifically that 'Gog and Magog are at work in the Middle East,' the French president decided, in Eichenwald's words, that 'France was not going to fight a war based on an American president's interpretation of the Bible.'"

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Thomas E. Ricks covered the U.S. military for the Washington Post from 2000 through 2008.

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