E.L. Doctorow on President Bush

pretty strong meat from the Easthampton Star (N.Y.):

> But you study him, you look into his eyes and know he
> dissembles an emotion which he does not feel in the
> depths of his being because he has no capacity for it.
> He does not feel a personal responsibility for the
> thousand dead young men and women who wanted to be what
> they could be. They come to his desk not as youngsters
> with mothers and fathers or wives and children who will
> suffer to the end of their days a terribly torn fabric
> of familial relationships and the inconsolable
> remembrance of aborted life. They come to his desk as a
> political liability which is why the press is not
> permitted to photograph the arrival of their coffins
> from Iraq.

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