My OperaThe agony of a White House Staffer
Tuesday, October 9, 2007 7:40:56 PM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/06/AR2007100601521.html
"An Exit Toward Soul-Searching
(As Bush Staffers Leave, Questions About Legacy Abound)"
*sniff* poor, poor Senior White House Staffer *choke* - she will have to live with those memories.. for the rest of her life *cries*.
"An Exit Toward Soul-Searching
(As Bush Staffers Leave, Questions About Legacy Abound)"
Too soon, evidently, for the dreams to end. "In fact, I was dreaming about Iraq last night," she said. "And I woke up and thought, 'When do you think this will stop?' "
As President Bush's top Iraq adviser while the war sank into an abyss over the past few years, O'Sullivan lived it every waking hour -- and many of the sleeping ones. The dreams came every night, often prosaic, sometimes straight out of a war movie, filled with violence and menace. It was, she said, "all consuming."
*sniff* poor, poor Senior White House Staffer *choke* - she will have to live with those memories.. for the rest of her life *cries*.
