Senate Democrats Criticize Bush, Rumsfeld

Senate Democrats today seized upon revelations in a new book by Bob Woodward, saying it offers compelling evidence that President Bush has misled the public about the war in Iraq.

"We've got a continuing state of denial in a president," said Sen. Carl Levin (Mich.), a reference to the title of the book, "State of Denial."

Woodward's book makes it clear that Bush "took us to war without a
plan, conducted war incompetently," Levin said, appearing at a Capitol
Hill news conference with other Senate Democrats.