On solid footing.

A few remarkable things about this video:

0. The aim. I don't think I could get that close. Twice.
1. The secret service response time. If you've seen Spike Jonze's "Five Stop Mother Superior Rain" video, you get a sense of the silent pandemonium in the first few nanoseconds of an assasination.
2. Bush seemed to enjoy this, proving that the inner fratboy is hard to kill.
3. Nuri al Maliki was the most breathtaking. This is a replay of his unflappable form last year when a bomb exploded outside a press conference with the new UN secretary. Ban Ki Moon tried to crawl under the table, and Maliki looked as if bomb blasts within retching distance are an everyday thing. Which I suppose they are.
4. The SOFA, which brought Bush to Baghdad, may surprise in its content. Patrick Cockburn has it covered here.