http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/26/george-bush-memoirsFirst look at George Bush's memoirs
The former US president's memoirs are to be published in November, and will consist of an account of his key decisions. Below is an exclusive preview from the first draft . . .
...Point 2 Everybody remembers where they were on September 11, 2001. And everybody remembers where I {W} was, including me. I was in a school in Florida, listening intently as some children read a story called The Pet Goat. It was about a little girl who had a goat that ate everything. Her parents wanted to get rid of it.
At some point my chief of staff, Andrew Card, whispered to me that America was under attack. Immediately I made the decision to carry on listening to the children. I've faced some criticism for that, but I knew then that I was facing the hardest day of my presidency, with some tough choices ahead of me. I would need all my powers of concentration and judgment, and I couldn't afford to be distracted by wondering how the story ended. I had to find out what happened to that goat.
Before dismissing this as parody, one must recall that W once described the US voters as "seven year old children" {Or at least as some age beyond his intellectual attainments}. He might think this is funny, or, it might simply be the simple truth of this most powerful of all simpletons.
Even Nixon must be turning in his grave.