BUSH's Personal Vendetta: "We Need To Get Saddam-That Mother F*cker Tried To Take Out My Dad"

[kpete]

Bush On Saddam: ‘That Motherf*cker Tried To Take Out My Dad’

President Bush attempted to convince the nation that Saddam Hussein had WMD as justification for invading Iraq in 2003. In Oct. 2002, for example, he stated, “If we know Saddam Hussein has dangerous weapons today — and we do — does it make any sense for the world to wait to confront him as he grows even stronger and develops even more dangerous weapons?”

But today on the progressive radio program The Cappy McGarr Show, host Cappy McGarr reveals that in private, Bush’s real motivation was a personal vendetta:

Of all the reasons used to justify this awful war, the one that stunned me the most…and will shock you…was the one I heard from a close friend of mine former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle. Senator Daschle was Majority Leader at the time.

The Senate and The House Leadership were meeting with President Bush for a weekly breakfast back then, and as our country was leading up to the Iraq war. … Bush got to talking about why we needed this war, and here’s what he said to Senator Daschle “We need to get Saddam Hussein…that Mother _______ tried to take out my Dad.”

Bush’s feelings for Saddam have long been intensely personal. In 2002, he said to CNN, “Oh, yes, I hate Saddam Hussein. I don’t hate a lot of people. I don’t hate easily.” Six days later at a fundraiser in Texas, Bush said, “There’s no doubt he Saddam can’t stand us. After all, this is the guy that tried to kill my dad at one time.” Bush was referring to an “alleged plot by Iraqi intelligence to assassinate Bush’s father.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/14/bush-saddam-dad/

[Blue_In_AK]

1. That and the oil. n/t

[Cass]

2. I remember that very well. He seemed obsessed with it and repeated it incessantly.

So much so that, at the time, I thought he needed therapy to deal with it. Seriously.

[formercia]

3. Junior is going to get a real good lesson in Blood feuds

People in that part of the World take that as SOP. Every time an innocent gets killed, you have their family to contend with for the next several generations.

[Wilber_Stool]

4. I wasn't hate that sent bush* after Sadam,

It was envie.

[formercia]

5. Copy Cat

all Junior needs is a tan, bushy moustache and a military uniform.

and he would look just like his mentor.