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According to Plan of Attack, Bob Woodward's new book about the events leading to the war in Iraq, George W. Bush was struck by the stone-faced response to his eloquent address to the U.N. General Assembly in September 2002. "The more solemn they looked to me," he tells Woodward, speaking of the U.N. delegates, "the more emotional I was in making the case. Not openly emotional, the more firm I was in making the case. It was a speech I really enjoyed giving." A few weeks later, he tells some members of Congress about the moment: "There were...
...Bush's reaction to the CIA's prewar briefing on Saddam Hussein's alleged weapons of mass destruction is instructive. According to Woodward, the President isn't impressed with the evidence-but this doesn't seem to cause him a moment of doubt about his mission to rid the world of Dr. Evil. No, he's concerned about the looming sales job. "Nice try," he tells John McLaughlin, the deputy CIA director. "I don't think this is quite-it's not something that Joe Public would understand or would gain a lot of confidence from...
...President is a compelling presence in this book, as he was in Woodward's last. He fairly leaps off the page, brisk and unflappable. It is difficult to know how accurate this portrait is, and how much of it consists of sweet nothings whispered into the author's ear by loyal retainers. I suspect the Woody Allen and Joe Public stories are true. They are moments when the curtain of platitudes is parted and the quality of Bush's sensibility is revealed. I also suspect the larger picture-the world as seen from the West Wing bunker-is distressingly accurate...
...time Clearlake takes the stage, the Roxy isn’t at full capacity, but gathered around the stage fans crowd and clamor for the band. “There are always some that manage to know the words,” Woodward says. “American fans seem much warmer, on a whole, than the British. We’ve felt much more welcomed by the audiences over here...
...contours in lead singer Jason Pegg’s face and long blonde hair. He regards the microphone at an angle, seeming to sing at it rather than into it, and his silvery croon is accompanied by occasional vocals from the microphones to his left and right, where Woodward and Hewitt round out the front line...