who tells this idiot to read these turds on a footpath?

If he has not done so already, my reading list for Bush would include:

President Eisenhower's speech on the "military-industrial complex."

Barry Goldwater's "The Conscience of a Conservative"

J. William Fulbright's "The Arrogance of Power"

At least selected portions of the "Pentagon Papers"

Lawrence Walsh's "Firewall: The Iran Contra Conspiracy and Cover-Up"

John Knowles "A Separate Peace" in the hopes that Bush might recognize in himself the worst apsects of the characters of both Gene and Phineas.

S.E. Hinton's "The Outsiders" in the hope that Bush could see that while there is such as thing as "good versus evil" it can't be neatly defined by groups or nations. (For example we allied ourselves with Saddam Hussein during a time he was on his worst behavior; with Hiroshima, etc. we embraced evil in the name of defeating evil.)