It is doubtful that Mr. Bush read any 752-page novels in his youth.

"Mr. Bush must have read Mark Twain," he said.

Mr. Bush is reading the script aloud when all of a sudden he seizes up.

This week, however, the administration decided that Mr. Bush had been reading the wrong words.

Mr. Bush picked his up and read it quizzically: "Ninety-six hours to victory?"

A half-hour before that, Mr. Bush read a statement to reporters in which he expressed his confidence that "justice is being done."

It is not entirely certain that Mr. Bush read the memo, but if he did the contents are not in conflict with his past statements.

How many people out there think that Mr. Bush: A) really read the book.

Mr. Bush read the speech from a teleprompter, but that did not stop him from making a mistake and inverting his words.

So I don't think Mr. Bush should be reading anything that would tend to get him excited.