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Title: Anti Bush Polemics
Review: I learned of Rodgers' experience with the 7th Cavalry from an interview he gave on NPR -which I guess should have been a tip off- in which he was most engaging and thoughtful. However, after reading his book, I was amazed at his egocentricity and imagined superiority, as well as his condescending attitutde toward our troops, which he takes such great pains to deny. I had expected an insightful decription of his experiences as an embedded reporter, instead what I learned was his stolid anti-Bush opinions. I am not interested in his feelings about George Bush or the rationale behind the Iraq incursion, I had hoped to learn about our troops and their operations. Unhappily, Rodgers appears to be cut from the same cloth as Maureen Dowd and Frank Rich- although they have some good thoughts, they can't be taken as serious because their biases are so blatantly exposed that they cast doubt on even their legitimate observations.
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