Woodward's title becomes a charge in itself.

Woodward's book title has become a phrase and charge in itself.

Democrats have long accused the White House of failing to foresee an Iraqi insurgency, failing to create a viable international coalition behind the invasion and sending too few soldiers to control the restive country.

Now they are also charging that the president is in a state of denial.

"He doesn't want to see the facts. He doesn't want to acknowledge reality," Carl Levin, the top Democrat of the Senate Armed Services Committee, insisted Friday.