Deity to W.: You Da Man

In this week's New Yorker, Seymour Hersh returns from his canvas of the Iraq War's ring of power with the usual dismal news. President Bush and his advisers keep all bad news about the war at arm's length, vow their steely determination to "stay the course" in spite of never defining what the course may be, hurl raw meat at Dick Cheney to calm his reflexive snarling, etc. Then, however, there's this:

After the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, [one]former official said, he was told that Bush felt that