Would Rand Paul be another George Bush?

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"Days of Fire" author Peter Baker talks to Salon about the Iraq war, and how the GOP has changed

SCOTT PORCH

On Jan. 30, 2001, ten days after his inauguration, President George W. Bush convened the first meeting of his National Security Council in the White House Situation Room. The first order of business was a discussion of Arab-Israeli peace negotiations.

The second order of business was Iraq.

“Why are we even bothering with sanctions?” Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld responded to Secretary of State Colin Powell’s suggestion that the administration strengthen economic sanctions against Iraq, which was in violation of U.N. resolutions intended to prevent Iraq from developing atomic, chemical and biological weapons.

Peter Baker recounts the exchange in his new book, “Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House,” which depicts a Bush administration preoccupied with Iraq from its earliest days. Baker, the Times’ chief White House correspondent, spoke to me by phone from his desk at the paper’s Washington bureau.

Iraq was really the point of the first meeting of the National Security Council. The Bush administration was thinking about invading Iraq long before 9/11. Did you set out to find the “real” reason for invading Iraq?

full article:
http://www.salon.com/2013/12/15/would_rand_paul_be_another_george_bush/

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1. Can we come back to editors writing titles which reflect the article.

There is exactly two sentences here related to Rand Paul, and it answers NO without even elaborating.

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2. No. W set a standard that no one can top (er.. bottom)

For examples: falling off a segway. Choking on a pretzel. Not being able to find "W" on the keyboard. There is no one else in his class, that's why I call him classless.

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3. I never thought I'd find a dumber politician than Dubya...

Rand Paul proved me wrong.