The AP kindly published a glimpse of Bush’s notes during yesterday’s press conference. Unfortunately, from the angle and distance, they’re pretty darn hard to read.

However.

We all know these things are stage-managed to the hilt, so I don’t want to clog this page with minutiae, but if you’re curious, I blew the image up and rotated it around so we can see the notes from roughly Bush’s own perspective here.

Comparing the notes to the White House transcript, it becomes obvious that even the most trivial utterance — e.g. “the final history in the region has not been written,” etc. — has been carefully tested and regurgitated.

No big shock, I know. Just interesting to see the machine at work from the other side of the podium.