Who was Responsible For the Presiden't Speech

PHOTOS SHOW BUSH REWRITING, REVISING SPEECH

OFFICIAL WHITE HOUSE PIX INCLUDE
CLOSE-UP OF BUSH "SKETCHING NOTES
IN MARGIN," "REWRITING" SOTU ADDRESS

BUSH SHOWN IN OVAL OFFICE "GIVING
SPEECHWRITING TEAM A FEW POINTS" AFTER
"REVISING THE STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS"

For the last few days, the administration has attempted to blame everyone except George W. Bush for the deceptive contents of that speech, and to portray the speech reviewing process as so messy and arbitrary that no one can remember who wrote or revised what, much less which members of the administration saw the speech.

Luckily, we remembered how impressed we were when viewing the pix of an engaged and hands-on George W. Bush at the taxpayer-funded official White House site, as he participated closely in the SOTU speechwriting process in January. We marveled at his competence and involvement, and the care he took in ensuring that no word would be uttered or information imparted to the American people without his personal approval.

Why, as one caption tells us, he sketched notes in the speech's margins, and even rewrote some of it!