This book augments the portrait of Mr. Bush as an incurious and curiously uninformed executive that Mr. Suskind earlier set out in "The Price of Loyalty" and in a series of magazine articles on the president and key aides. In "The One Percent Doctrine," he writes that Mr. Cheney's nickname inside the C.I.A. was Edgar (as in Edgar Bergen), casting Mr. Bush in the puppet role of Charlie McCarthy, and cites one instance after another in which the president was not fully briefed (or had failed to read the basic paperwork) about a crucial situation.
Imagine, for a moment, that this picture is really of George Bush and Dick Cheney.
As I've always said, whenever the entire truth comes out about the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Rove Administration, it will be much, much worse than anything any of us can imagine.
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Have you watched this week's Frontline: The Dark Side.
The most brilliant and creepy look into Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld and the past five years.
Can I still TiVo it?
Online?
How are they characterized?
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