Mr. Bush writes a "pop up" book

Sadly enough, the WSJournal ran a 10th grade book review of Mr. Bush's Magnum Opus.  I guess the writer was sincere in effort.  Ms. Strassel appears to have had a meteoric career at the journal and her breakthrough pieces (on how government regulation unfairly helps women and that one on Ms. Palin -whoooboy) fall neatly into the Murdoch world view.  I get the feeling that when she wrote the review she was stopping about every other sentence and saying to herself "OMG give me strength to gloss over one more line of this nitwit's limited memory".

We do, however, have a Pulitzer nomination here for "Rather Sickening Fiction" but I am not sure that is a category yet.  It should be after this.

One telling quote she sticks in (presumably to prove she read the book is:

"The world is better off and more secure without Saddam Hussein in power. But so much of the case—and so much of the focus—was on WMD, that the failure to find it made the task of convincing the American people to hang in there harder."

This sentence, this one sentence, I think sums up the book and Mr. Bush.  He has conveniently forgotten (or perhaps was never aware) that the WMD argument was trotted out BEFORE as the pretext to war and the failure to find them, a mission undertaken by weapons inspectors was reported to Mr. Bush BEFORE we invaded to find them....or has he forgotten dispatching Colin Powell to the UN to lie? and Condi to the Rose Garden to talk about "mushroom clouds"?  Mr. Bush wrote "convincing to hang in there".  He didn't write "convincing the people to go in the first place".  That, along with his "should have landed Louisiana (after Katrina) and given a speech" ...well you get the idea of the goop that lines the pages.

What gives that we can let this fella off with lying to our face then and now?