From the archives... GWB's once-official ghost-writer opens up

[housewolf]

A telling source was interviewed in October, 2004 and revealed some secrets about GWB. I'm sure this was posted and discussed here at that time but I thought it was a useful adjunct to DSM so I wanted to
bring this one back into the light.


Published on Thursday, October 28, 2004 by GNN.tv
Two Years Before 9/11, Candidate Bush was Already Talking Privately About Attacking Iraq, According to His Former Ghost Writer
by Russ Baker


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.

That President Bush and his advisers had Iraq on their minds long before weapons inspectors had finished their work - and long before alleged Iraqi ties with terrorists became a central rationale for war - has been raised elsewhere, including in a book based on recollections of former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill. However, Herskowitz was in a unique position to hear Bush's unguarded and unfiltered views on Iraq, war and other matters - well before he became president.

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Herskowitz also revealed the following:

* In 2003, Bush's father indicated to him that he disagreed with his son's invasion of Iraq.
* Bush admitted that he failed to fulfill his Vietnam-era domestic National Guard service obligation, but claimed that he had been "excused."
* Bush revealed that after he left his Texas National Guard unit in 1972 under murky circumstances, he never piloted a plane again. That casts doubt on the carefully-choreographed moment of Bush emerging in pilot's garb from a jet on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in 2003 to celebrate "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq. The image, instantly telegraphed around the globe, and subsequent hazy White House statements about his capacity in the cockpit, created the impression that a heroic Bush had played a role in landing the craft.
* Bush described his own business ventures as "floundering" before campaign officials insisted on recasting them in a positive light.

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more...
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1028-01.htm

[LightningFlash]

1. The question is.....Will the mysterious "deepthrought" come forward?

Will he testify for the hearings or give all his evidence to the New York Times?

:wow:

[CC]

2. Did he tape it?

Have proof he said all this and is he ready to yell about it until the MSM can't help but report it? We need someone with the guts to make sure it can't be ignored and solid proof that blivet* said it. Video might work, along with staying out of planes.

[LightningFlash]

3. Well the way I see it....

He would have to stay out of all small planes, and away from men in dark suits. Then he would simply need to come to the British press, since they are a free and uncensored press, and report the entire thing.

Then come to New York Times/Washington Post and reveal all the dumped information in one huge file.