WH: Bush is currently reading "A Savage War of Peace"

[sabra]

http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/blogs/politicalticker/2007/01/presidents-bookshelf.html

The president's bookshelf

WASHINGTON (CNN) --As President Bush wrestles with the continuing war in Iraq, he's currently reading a book about another difficult war: "A Savage War of Peace," by Alistair Horne, a senior White House source tells CNN.

It is a dense and detailed history of the battle between France and revolutionaries in its colony of Algeria, describing an unsuccessful war against a bloody terrorist insurgency. A resistance movement rose in 1954 to resist French occupation. It quickly turned into a civil war between factions that became a costly, unpopular conflict for the French.

[Hoosier Dem]

1. Uh, I believe France LOST that war...

This idiot never ceases to amaze me. He needs to go back to "My Pet Goat".

Isn't "A War of peace" like "An Orgy for Virginity"?

[alfredo]

11. He's reading it back to front.

[rodeodance]

2. and??

[Missy M]

3. I don't believe Bush could get through or understand a....

dense and detailed history of anything.

[maxrandb]

4. Yeah Right!

This guy hasn't read a book that doesn't include dialect bubbles in his entire life.

[MessiahRp]

5. Georgie loves the Pop-Up books...

Pictures I tell you! Pictures!

:)

Rp

[Virginia Dare]

6. He wants to be able to say...

well, at least I didn't screw up as badly as the frogs, heh heh. Well, sorry Georgie boy, you will take the cake when it comes to historical screw-ups.

By the way, I don't believe this bullshit nonsense about him reading any books, the man can't even read a simple speech off a teleprompter.

[Benhurst]

7. Yeah, and I'm reading the Egyptian Book of the Dead in its original

Hieroglyphics.

What bullshit. Bush has trouble reading his bedtime favorite, The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

[sabra]

9. on Friday he ate... :-)

[Hoosier Dem]

13. Careful with that Book!!!!

Read it out loud and you summon Dick Cheney!!

[TZ]

8. Is Bush reading it...

Or having it read to him?

[Virginia Dare]

10. Books on tape...n/t

[valerief]

12. Must have lots of pictures in it. nt

[Contrary1]

14. I demand a picture of this remarkable deed!

Does he have his glasses perched on the end of his pointy little nose?
Can he understand any word that consists of more than one syllable?

But...the most important question I have is this:
Is he holding the book right side up?

[Lost-in-FL]

15. It is sad when the WH releases names of books

* is reading like he has something to prove. Did it happened with other presidents?

[Pendrench]

17. I agree - I think its a sad commentary that after six years in office, this administration still

feels the need to try and prove to the American people that the president isn't stupid.

Tim

[hashibabba]

16. He can't read a book like that. He's incapable. He probably

gets someone to read it for him and gets them to boil it down to a paragraph that he then attempts to memorize so he can say he read something. He can't even read or comprehend the Constitution! "My Pet Goat" is all he can read.