Stone paints warts‘n’all portrait of Dubya

Oliver Stone's new film about the life of George Bush will paint a picture of a man who, having partied too much in his youth, tries so hard to impress his father and purge his personal demons that he takes his country into an unnecessary war against Iraq.

ABC News has got hold of a screenplay of Stone's film, W, which will star Josh Brolin as Bush. The script includes a scene at Yale where he drinks vodka mixed with orange juice out of a trash can. Asked whether he'll follow in the steps of his politician father, Dubya responds, "Hell no, that's the last thing in the world I'd want to do."
 
Years later, after downing a pint of Wild Turkey, his angry father tells him to call Alcoholics Anonymous, prompting Dubya to deride his dad as "Mr Perfect. Mr War Hero. Mr Fucking God Almighty."
 
Later scenes concerning the decision to go to war are laced with Dubya-speak. When Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld confronts Bush in 2002 about his obsession with Saddam, Bush responds: "You don't go after the Bushes and get to talk about it. Ya got me?"

When he learns of Jacques Chirac's wish to give weapons inspectors 30 more days to work in Iraq, Bush explodes: "Thirty days! I'd like to stuff a plate of freedom fries down that slick piece of shit's throat!"
 
On the lighter side, Bush practices his parachute landing in the White House pool but forgets to properly release the harness and sinks to the bottom. In another scene, Bush and his top advisers are shown locking the war-wary Colin Powell out of a room, erupting into laughter when they finally let him in.
 
However, the lighter moments can seem horribly out of sync with reality. Munching on bologna and cheese sandwiches, the President brags to Cheney about how his running time has improved since the Afghanistan invasion. On another occasion Bush describes giving up sweets as "my personal sacrifice to show support for our troops".

In the final scene of the script, after a disastrous news conference in April 2004 Bush retreats to the White House den to watch a Texas Rangers game. Popping open a non-alcoholic beer, he lapses into his favourite dream: playing baseball for the Texas Rangers. Hearing the crack of the bat, he looks up for the ball but he can't find it in the sky. ·