A timely tome darkens the White House door  Woodward's latest:
packed with inside-the-Beltway detail and in bookstores just in
time for midterm elections.   Looking for the juicy bits in Bob
Woodward's latest book, most commentators have focused on such
things as its assertion that Henry Kissinger still visits the
White House, or that many, many people have tried to get Don
Rumsfeld fired.  But the story I liked best was the one about
the colonel who writes haiku.  Army Col. Steve Rotkoff was a
military intelligence officer, bookish, and one of the top
officials assigned to track down Saddam Hussein's weapons of
mass destruction, or WMD. First in the United States, then in
the Iraqi theater of operations, he kept a diary laced with
Japanese-style poems that expressed his growing frustration with
the unfolding events.  Recommended: Could you pass a US
citizenship test?  At the start, Mr. Rumsfeld wouldn't provide
enough troops. Next, the expected WMD didn't turn up. Finally,
an unexpected insurgency threatened