PROLOGUE
December 12, 2006
"You can't possibly figure out the history of the Bush presidency -- until I'm dead."
George W. Bush slipped a piece of cheese into his mouth. "Let's order first." He took a quick glance at the day's menu prepared for him and his guest, saw nothing on it he cared for, and announced to the steward, "I'll have a hot dog. Low fat hot dog."
Then he slapped down the menu and asked, "What is the purpose of this book?"
He was edgy that day. Earlier that morning, Bush had decided that a major address slotted for next week was going to have to wait another month. The subject was Iraq, and he was, frankly, unsure of what to say on the subject. A bipartisan commission called the Iraq Study Group -- cochaired by longtime Bush family consigliere James A. Baker III -- had recently returned its report, which had labeled that country's condition "grave and deteriorating." Progress in that ongoing conflict had been inchwise even before sectarian violence began to develop its awful momentum in the spring of 2006 and threaten to tear t ... read full excerpt from: Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush ebook
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