
Here's a book I gotta find:
Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush, by Robert Draper. Bush, apparently under the impression that he was talking to a sympatico author, made some
startling admissions in an interview for this book.
Dubya admits that he "cries a lot." (As have many parents of children who died in this needless war.) He also claims that he has seen "ghosts" (plural!) emerge from the bedroom bearing the name of the 16th president. If Lincoln did not extend a middle finger to his successor, he missed the opportunity of a death-time.
We also learn that Bush
still thinks that Saddam had
weapons of mass destruction, and that the disbanding of the Iraqi army came as a surprise to him.
Here's Bush on the
"vision thing":
That's what I mean by strategic thought. I don't know how you learn that. I don't think there's a moment where that happened to me. I really don't. I know you're searching for it. I know it's difficult. I do know—y'know, how do you decide, how do you learn to decide things? When you make up your mind, and you stick by it—I don't know that there's a moment, Robert. I really—You either know how to do it or you don't.
Let's hand the oval office over to the shade of Lincoln's wife. Even
she would provide saner government.