Short Quiz - Obama's Wars by Bob Woodward

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Short Quiz - Obama's Wars by Bob Woodward

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Dear Friends,

Our next meeting is WEDNESday evening, November 10th at the Salt Lake Public Library. Our focus will be Obama’s Wars by Bob Woodward (available at your local library or from Amazon.com for $15.00 + shipping).

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HEADS UP RE INGRID BETANCOURT

Ingrid Betancourt will be speaking at 7:00 pm this evening (Sat Oct 23) on “The Role Journalists Played During My Captivity, Liberation and Return to Society” at the Rowland Hall St. Mark’s Field House, 720 S. Guardsman Way.

Her book (Even Silence Has An End) was published in September and is one of the recommendations posted on our bulletin board (http://www.ReadingLiberally-SaltLake.org) as the focus for a future meeting. [The NY Times Book Review of her book is also posted.]

She founded the Green Party in Colombia and was elected to Colombia’s Chamber of Representatives in 1994. In 1998, she was elected a Senator with the largest number of votes for anyone running for a Senate seat that year. In 2002 while running for President on an anti-corruption anti-drug-trafficking platform, she issued a demand that the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) stop its practice of kidnapping -- and was herself kidnapped by the FARC and held captive for 6.5 years. She and 14 fellow captives were freed by a government raid.

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SHORT QUIZ – OBAMA’S WARS BY BOB WOODWARD

1. How many Pulitzer Prizes has Bob Woodward won?

2. How many nonfiction books authored by Bob Woodward became NY Times No. 1 bestsellers?

3. What did President Obama recently tell Bob Woodward was his (President Obama’s) greatest concern, both as a candidate and since becoming President?

4. Was/Is there good reason for this concern?

5. Are the Tribal Regions along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border part of either country?

6. How many terrorist training camps run by the Al Qaeda network are located in the Tribal Regions?

7. How many U.S. drone attacks in the Tribal Regions of Pakistan were conducted before President Bush left office? How many since President Obama assumed office?

8. If the U.S. government ever captured Osama bin Laden, do you think it would admit it?

9. How many so-called failed states are there in the world today where the Al Qaeda network already exists or would be welcome?

10. Does it appear that the U.S. government, reading between the lines, is agreeing to the conversion of the Pakistani Government back into a military dictatorship in return for military cooperation in the Tribal Regions.

11. Is the presence of U.S. military forces in Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia (combined with the latter’s non-democratic government) the greatest recruiting tool for the Al Qaeda network?

12. Is General David Petraeus a registered Republican? Is there a fear at the White House that he will become a Presidential candidate in 2012?

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We hope to see and hear all of you on Nov 10th!!!

Your friend,

John K.

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