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Thursday, October 28, 2004



Bush Wanted To Invade Iraq If Elected in 2000

This article was linked from Froomkin. Its really damning. Accuses w of saying in 1999 that he needed a "small war" to raise his numbers so he could push his political agenda. He was planning to take out Saddam for purely political gain.

Exclusive: Bush Wanted To Invade Iraq If Elected in 2000

“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.”
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According to Herskowitz, George W. Bush’s beliefs on Iraq were based in part on a notion dating back to the Reagan White House – ascribed in part to now-vice president Dick Cheney, Chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee under Reagan. “Start a small war. Pick a country where there is justification you can jump on, go ahead and invade.”
Bush’s circle of pre-election advisers had a fixation on the political capital that British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher collected from the Falklands War. Said Herskowitz: “They were just absolutely blown away, just enthralled by the scenes of the troops coming back, of the boats, people throwing flowers at [Thatcher] and her getting these standing ovations in Parliament and making these magnificent speeches.”

Tell that to the parents of the dead soldiers. Their kids were just pawns for w to use in an effort to gain political capitol. And too bad for the country of Iraq that's been thrown into chaos.

Not that this is exactly news to us here, but we've basically been going on speculation and deduction on his motive. Here it is spelled out.


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