Bush: Money Changed Pooty-Poo
In an interview with Hugh Hewitt, GWB explains that he wasn’t wrong about Putin “seeing into [Putin’s] soul.” Putin simply changed because Russia went from a debtor nation to a creditor nation.
“The reason why I said that is because I remembered him talking movingly about his mother and the cross that she gave him that she had blessed in Jerusalem,” Bush told Hewitt. “Nobody knows that, and I never tried to make an explanation of why I said what I said until the book.
Then again, maybe Putin read his diplomatic cables prior to the meeting and, as a former KGB Station Chief, thought he might manipulate some guy with a story about that guy’s religion.