Original sentence: In State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III (as excerpted in Newsweek magazine), journalist Bob Woodward of  the Washington Post writes.On March 16, General John Abizaid, the commander of CENTCOM and thus the top military officer for the Middle East, was in Washington to testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee.Questioned by Mike Wallace on a 1 October 2006 broadcast of the television show Sixty Minutes,  Woodward stood by this version of events
Edited sentence: " Wallace continued to summarize material from the book."On March 16, General John Abizaid, the commander of CENTCOM and thus the top military officer for the Middle East, was in Washington to testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee.As excerpted in Newsweek magazine from State of Denial:.He said that when John Murtha, the soul and conscience of the military, made his 10,000 volt statement about troop redeployment- this act caused Abizaid to see Murtha in March, 2006.On October 1, 2006, an interview of Washington Post journallist Bob Woodward by CBS reporter Mike Wallace was broadcast on the television show Sixty Minutes.The interview was about Woodward's new book State of Denial.Wallace said that Woodward reported that CENTCOM General John Abizaid had stated privately to friends that "we had to get the "F..." out of Iraq.Wallace went on to say that Woodward wrote that Murtha said that Abizaid held up his thumb and forefinger about a quarter inch apart and said we are about this close on Iraq.Woodward nodded his head in assent and said yes