"I'm going to get everything passed that I want to get passed" - GWB

[bettyellen]

Writer Russ Baker noted in October, 2004, that Mickey Herskowitz, the man Bush had originally hired to write his autobiography ("A Charge To Keep: My Journey To The White House"), told Baker that George Bush was planning his Iraq invasion - to seize and hold political power for himself and the Republican Party - during his first presidential election campaign.

"He was thinking about invading Iraq in 1999," Herskowitz told Baker. "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."

Bush lied, and Americans died. And continue to die. But politically - at least so far - it has worked out well for Bush.

It was a lie of political expediency, with the war resolution carefully timed just before the 2002 elections to help the Republicans take back the Senate.

Published on Monday, June 20, 2005 by CommonDreams.org
They Died So Republicans Could Take the Senate
by Thom Hartmann

more....

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0620-22.htm

[Sanity Claws]

1. So true

I remember when Bush was interviewed by Tim Russert last year. He kept saying he wanted to be remembered as the War President. I thought that was bizarre. Now it all makes sense.

[norml]

2. Here's something to help Dubya get everything passed.

[bettyellen]

3. LOL.

[Stinky The Clown]

4. Well, if we're gunna do product placements .....

This product .....

.... created the family fortune that put this guy .......

....... in the position to protect this fuckwad .....

...... by allowing the fat faced spittle flecked fucker ......

.... to walk out on witnesses he didn't want to hear.

Don't contribute to Tex Sensenbrenner's fortune .......