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June 14, 2005
Pre-Invasion Reports
In suppport of my thoughts regarding the lead up to the Iraq war that I mentioned in the Downing St. Memo post a few days ago you can read this account.
"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.'"
Posted by Chip Spear at June 14, 2005 1:48 PM
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