George Bush published his memoir this week and with it came revelations which have shaken the political world. In ‘Decision Points’, Mr Bush defended the use of water boarding in American interrogation tactics as an ‘enhanced interrogation technique’. Earlier today, the Guardian newspaper reported that it has been claimed that several anecdotes featuring in the book are similar to stories found in various reviews and a previous book about Mr Bush’s war time administration, leading some to accuse the ex-president of incidences of plagiarism at worst and laziness at best.
Whether these latest claims are found to be truthful or unfounded, it remains that ‘Decision Points’ has catapulted the former US leader back into the media spotlight. Commenting for the first time on many of the controversial events of his two term presidency (including exactly what he was thinking in that now infamous film clip when he was told of the 9/11 terrorist attacks during a visit with a classroom full of children) and gaining an unlikely fan in former Democrat president, Bill Clinton, ‘Decision Points’ could well be one of the most contentious books of 2010.
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