"I Was One Guy in a Bubble"

"I Was One Guy in a Bubble"
By Harold Meyerson, The American Prospect. Posted October 25, 2004.
http://www.alternet.org/election04/20275/
George W. Bush's push to keep outside advisers out was a catastrophic success. Chris Bull
"I have no outside advice" in the war on terrorism, President Bush told Bob Woodward in December of 2001. In an interview that Woodward revealed to Nicholas Lemann in last week's issue of the New Yorker, Bush insisted that, "Anybody who says they're an outside adviser of this Administration on this particular matter is not telling the truth. First of all, in the initial phase of the war, I never left the compound. Nor did anybody come in the compound. I was, you talk about one guy in a bubble."...