Bush says his "unilateral arrogance" made world better off

The book titled "Dead Certain" -- written by Texas author Robert Draper -- will be in stores on Tuesday.  Part of the ideas expressed in the book are based on an exclusive person-to-person discussion last December between Draper and Bush.  According to the site Editor and Publisher, the Washington Post and New York Times were the only newspapers given advance excerpts of the book.

After skimming through a bunch of strange statements by Bush, such as his desire to create the Freedom Institute, I came across a jaw-dropper.  It pertains to Bush's decision-making skills:

..he said he saw his unpopularity as a natural result of his decisionto pursue a strategy in which he believed. "I made a decision to lead,"he said. "One, it makes you unpopular; two, it makes people accuse youof unilateral arrogance, and that may be true. But the fundamentalquestion is, is the world better off as a result of your leadership?"

Are we to take from this quote that Bush is proud of being arrogant?  If so, let's remind ourselves what the word "arrogance" means:

an attitude of superiority manifested in an overbearing manner or in presumptuous claims or assumptions

Interesting, especially the phrase "presumptuous claims or assumptions" -- like about weapons of mass destruction; or that we would be greeted as liberators; or that the oil money would finance the reconstruction.