Photos: CofferBoy "smiles as he travels by boat on Sydney Harbour for a lunchtime visit with troops"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

President Bush smiles as he travels by boat on Sydney Harbour to Garden Island naval base for a lunchtime visit with Australian troops, September 5, 2007. (Greg Wood/Pool/Reuters)



President Bush waves as he leaves a boat at Garden Island navel base in Sydney for a lunchtime visit with Australian troops, before the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, September 5, 2007. (Greg Wood/Pool/Reuters)



Australian Prime Minister John Howard waves as President Bush looks on as they travel by boat on Sydney Harbour to Garden Island naval base for a lunchtime visit with Australian troops, September 5, 2007. (Greg Wood/Pool/Reuters)



U.S. President George W. Bush shakes hands with Australia's Prime Minister John Howard (L) in Sydney, September 5, 2007. (Jason Reed/Reuters)

The President's Retirement Plans: I Can Make A "Ridiculous" Amount Of Money, I Want To Replenish "The Ol' Coffers"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20070904/bush-biography/

Bush granted journalist Robert Draper several extended interviews in late 2006 and early 2007, as well as unusual access to his aides, for the book "Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush," which went on sale Tuesday.

Also in the book, Bush:

Acknowledged that sectarian violence after the U.S. toppled Saddam Hussein was "something we didn't spend a lot of time planning for. We planned for what happens if Saddam and his people dug into Baghdad," and we figured the Iraqi leader was fomenting ethnic divisions that would ease when he was gone. The opposite happened.

Said he wants to make money _ "replenishing the ol' coffers" _ after his presidency. He said he could make "ridiculous" money on the lecture circuit, citing the experience of his predecessor, Bill Clinton, as well as his own father.

[acmavm]

1. bush** looks totally crazed in those pictures. All I see is Jack

Nicholson saying "I'm BAAAACK".

[jojo54]

2. Who the hell does he wave to?

Who, other than the 30%, are gonna' wave back without wanting to hurl a molotov cocktail at him?

[karlrschneider]

3. Everywhere he goes, he sees Stevie Wonder out there in the crowd...

:eyes: