Mr. Cue Card

This isn’t exactly hardcore journalism, but we can have a little fun here at Resonance every now and then, can’t we?
Atrios posted a Photoshop-enhanced picture of the notes in front of President Bush during the cabinet meeting Thursday. The text is difficult to make out, but a number of commenters took a stab at figuring out what it says. Commenter Jimm offers what may be as good a guess as any for the left page:

Saddam was a threat.
Sworn enemy of US.
Destabilizing force.
Volatile part of world.
Has weapons of mass destruction used them.
Ties to terrorist orgs.
Contact with Al Qaeda over past decade.

What do you know, here’s Bush’s response to a question during the press Q & A:

THE PRESIDENT: The reason I keep insisting that there was a relationship between Iraq and Saddam and al Qaeda, because there was a relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda. This administration never said that the 9/11 attacks were orchestrated between Saddam and al Qaeda. We did say there were numerous contacts between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda. For example, Iraqi intelligence officers met with bin Laden, the head of al Qaeda, in the Sudan. There’s numerous contacts between the two.
I always said that Saddam Hussein was a threat. He was a threat because he had used weapons of mass destruction against his own people. He was a threat because he was a sworn enemy to the United States of America, just like al Qaeda. He was a threat because he had terrorist connections — not only al Qaeda connections, but other connections to terrorist organizations; Abu Nidal was one. He was a threat because he provided safe-haven for a terrorist like Zarqawi, who is still killing innocent inside of Iraq.
No, he was a threat, and the world is better off and America is more secure without Saddam Hussein in power.

This answer follows the script fairly closely. Bush has been repeating these talking points for how long? And he still needs to use notes? That can’t be right, can it?