"At 4:30 a.m. Tenet called the Situation Room and told the duty officer, 'Tell the president we got the son of a bitch'." Bush was not awakened, however, and by the time he got to the Oval Office that morning, it appeared that Saddam was still alive.
There have been many revelations from the Woodward book, but as I read this article yesterday it was this section that disturbed me most.
The CIA Director calls the White House to inform the President that we have just killed the leader of a foriegn country... and Bush doesn't get woken up?! What the fuck?! You son of a bitch. If you order an assasination and are seemingly successful in eliminating the target you better wake your ass out of bed when the call comes. This is outrageous. If he's not going to wake up for something like that, what do you wake up for? Added to the fact that he sat around reading books to kids on 9-11, this just proves that he's not man enough for the job. Forget whatever feelings you have towards the Iraq invasion. Forget whatever animosity you might (and should) have against BushCo. Forget about anything related to 9-11, Medicare, the environment, or anything affecting the country. Forget the incompetance, the stupidity, the ideology... If we just blew up a foriegn leader with a missle you wake your ass up and at least acknowledge the act. Hell if they woke him up, told him, he said cool and went back to bed... well at least that's something. For this lazy fuckwit to not even be awakened for such news is appaling. What the hell am I paying this guy for? What the hell does he think his job is? I know that America doesn't expect much out of the guy, but I expect his ass to get out of bed when the CIA Director calls to say we just killed the evildoer that he was obssesed with.
Everytime I think I can't be any more pissed at the man...What a schmuck.