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I've heard far too much about this hurl-asciously sycophantic article on Bush Family and the war from Newsweek ,and I thought I'd post the link for you guys to check out. It's really too long to post the whole thing here, but here are some highlights:
quote:BUSH RECALLED the instant that his—and the country’s—life had changed. Andy Card, his chief of staff, had leaned over him at an education event in Florida and whispered, “A second plane has hit the World Trade Center. America is under attack.” The president had tried not to look shocked. “I was very aware of the cameras,” he recalled during a candid, hour long interview with NEWSWEEK—his first, and the couple’s first, since 9-11. ” ‘America is under attack.’ I’m trying to absorb that knowledge. I have nobody to talk to. I’m sitting in the midst of a classroom with little kids, listening to a children’s story... and I realize I’m the commander in chief and the country has just come under attack.” Soon he was in a holding room, watching the nightmarish video. “I was furious,” he said. By the time he got back on Air Force One, he’d made the fundamental decision. “We’re at war,” he told his aides. “That’s what we’re paid for, boys.”
***We all need to know when it’s safe to laugh—and come up from the basement. Presidents aren’t just leaders, they’re emblems, never more so than in wartime. So far, the First Team has been exemplary in the eyes of the American people. Laura Bush, a former school librarian, has been a calming presence to her family and country, and an emerging voice on education, volunteerism and, lately, women’s rights in Afghanistan. Her husband, it turns out, has a gift for war—certainly the early stages of one. After the wanderings of that first, fog-filled day, he has been a model of unblinking, eyes-on-the-prize decisiveness. His basic military strategy—to combine high-tech surveillance with low-tech bombs—has proved astute. He has been eloquent in public, commanding in private. He had survived the first blows, made the right calls and exceeded expectations—again.
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