Doug Pensinger wrote: > 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. > > "He was thinking about invading Iraq in 1999," said author and > journalist Mickey Herskowitz. "It was on his mind. He said to me: > 'One of the keys to being seen as a great leader is to be seen as a > commander-in-chief.' And he said, 'My father had all this political > capital built up when he drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait and he wasted > it.' He said, 'If I have a chance to invade..if I had that much > capital, I'm not going to waste it. I'm going to get everything > passed that I want to get passed and I'm going to have a successful > presidency." > > 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 father's > shadow. The moment, Herskowitz said, came in the wake of the > September 11 attacks. "Suddenly, he's at 91 percent in the polls, and > he'd barely crawled out of the bunker."
Mickey Herskowitz is a long time Houston sportswriter, sportscaster, and commentator. His reputation is such that if he says it happened you can bank on it having happened. The only question would be the import of Bush's remarks. xponent Channel 2 News Maru rob _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
