http://russbaker.com/Guerrilla%20News%20Network%20-%20Bush.htm or http://tinyurl.com/6a6qq
"Two years before 9/11, candidate Bush was already talking privately about attacking Iraq, according to his former ghost writer.
Houston: Two years before the September 11 attacks, presidential candidate George W. Bush was already talking privately about the political benefits of attacking Iraq, according to his former ghost writer, who held many conversations with then-Texas Governor Bush in preparation for a planned autobiography.
âHe was thinking about invading Iraq in 1999,â said author and journalist Mickey Herskowitz. âIt was on his mind. He said to me: âOne of the keys to being seen as a great leader is to be seen as a commander-in-chief.â And he said, âMy father had all this political capital built up when he drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait and he wasted it.â He said, âIf I have a chance to invadeâ.if I had that much capital, Iâm not going to waste it. Iâm going to get everything passed that I want to get passed and Iâm going to have a successful presidency.â
Herskowitz said that Bush expressed frustration at a lifetime as an underachiever in the shadow of an accomplished father. In aggressive military action, he saw the opportunity to emerge from his fatherâs shadow. The moment, Herskowitz said, came in the wake of the September 11 attacks. âSuddenly, heâs at 91 percent in the polls, and heâd barely crawled out of the bunker.â
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