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The former president's book, "Decision Points", was leaked before its formal release next Tuesday, and portions were reported by The Washington Post.

Bush recounts Cheney pressuring him to invade Iraq, at one lunch asking him whether he was "going to take care of this guy, or not", referring to Saddam Hussein.

Bush says he still considers the war justified and believes the country is safer as a result, even though he was "sickened" by the failure to find weapons of mass destruction.

Bush says he pondered dropping Cheney as his running mate in favor of then-Sen. Bill Frist of Tennessee, but appreciated that the vice president helped him "do the job." They differed over Bush's firing of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and refusal to pardon Lewis "Scooter" Libby.

When the CIA asked his permission for the waterboarding, or simulated drowning, of alleged Sept. 11 plotter Khalid Sheik Mohammed, Bush's reply was "damn right", he wrote. Waterboarding is torture under international law.

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