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George W Bush: thoughts on world leaders

George W. Bush compares North Korea's Kim Jong-il to a food-hurling tantrum thrower, Jacques Chirac of France likes to lecture, Tony Blair is a stalwart friend, and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is "cold-blooded."

Bush's "Decision Points," out Tuesday, packs his eight years in the White House into about 500 pages full of anecdotes and assessments of world leaders, some kind, others brutal, and a few perhaps designed to settle old scores....

Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)