[BretLudwig]

Why did Bush start the Iraq War?

"Former Bush press secretary Scott McClellan's new book seems to support
the theory that I offered in 2005 when former Bush ghostwriter Mickey
Herskowitz revealed that Bush had been talking about the political
advantages of invading Iraq in 1999. I went on to speculate:

The idea of beating up on a sure loser like Saddam may have especially
appealed to GWB because of the President's personal qualities. Bush sees
himself not as a manager (which is certainly correct), but as a leader,
one who makes tough decisions based on intuition where other men who worry
about getting the facts first would suffer paralysis through analysis.

In other words, Bush doesn't particularly like to work hard, and he's
not that interested in learning what it takes to administer the
government. Spending eight grueling years on the blocking and tackling of
effectively running the government like Dwight Eisenhower did is not for
Bush. Instead, he's going to throw the Bomb, so he can then coast. And the
Iraq Attaq sounded to him like a pushbutton war -- all Bush had to do was
tell the Pentagon to go conquer Iraq and they'd go do it without bothering
him with a lot of tiresome questions about minor details."

http://isteve.blogspot.com/2008/05/w...-iraq-war.html

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