George Bush plagarizes his own memoir?

[Rupert Pupkin]

Originally Posted by Riot

Of course people are going to quote others accurately (hopefully) in multiple sources, so they will be the same.

But when it's whole hunks of other peoples books, newspaper articles, etc., taken word for word? That's different.

We'll have to see what happens here. What did you think of the multiple examples (the comparison quoted passages) in the article?

The General Franks quote was obviously an exact quote but why wouldn't it be? The quote was from a meeting that Franks had with the National Security Team. If there was a written record of Franks' exact quote (either from Frank's book or from someone taking notes in the meeting) and Bush is recounting what Franks said in that meeting, why wouldn't Bush look it up so he could get the quote exactly right?

The fact that Bush and his co-writers looked up the exact quote so that they would get it right is a good thing, not a bad thing.