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sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-12-07 04:12 PM
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WH: Bush is currently reading "A Savage War of Peace"

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.
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Hoosier Dem Donating Member (346 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-12-07 04:14 PM
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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"?
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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-12-07 04:27 PM
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11. He's reading it back to front.
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-12-07 04:14 PM
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2. and??
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Missy M Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-12-07 04:17 PM
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3. I don't believe Bush could get through or understand a....
dense and detailed history of anything.
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maxrandb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-12-07 04:18 PM
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4. Yeah Right!
This guy hasn't read a book that doesn't include dialect bubbles in his entire life.
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MessiahRp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-12-07 04:22 PM
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5. Georgie loves the Pop-Up books...
Pictures I tell you! Pictures!

:)

Rp
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Virginia Dare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-12-07 04:24 PM
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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.
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Benhurst Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-12-07 04:25 PM
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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.
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sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-12-07 04:26 PM
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9. on Friday he ate... :-)
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Hoosier Dem Donating Member (346 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-12-07 04:31 PM
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13. Careful with that Book!!!!
Read it out loud and you summon Dick Cheney!!
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-12-07 04:25 PM
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8. Is Bush reading it...
Or having it read to him?
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Virginia Dare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-12-07 04:26 PM
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10. Books on tape...n/t
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valerief Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-12-07 04:30 PM
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12. Must have lots of pictures in it. nt
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Contrary1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-12-07 04:33 PM
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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?
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Lost-in-FL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-12-07 04:39 PM
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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?
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Pendrench Donating Member (729 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-12-07 04:54 PM
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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
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hashibabba Donating Member (894 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-12-07 04:39 PM
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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.
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