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Originally Posted by Chanda  Regardless of how Iraq turns out, it began with massive deception. History won't change that. |
Deception in this case has a lot of hindsight to it.
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Bush did what he thought was best for himself. Even before his first term, Bush told his biographer, Mickey Herskowitz:
“One of the keys to being seen as a great leader is to be seen as a commander-in-chief,” Herskowitz remembers Bush saying. “My father had all this political capital built up when he drove the Iraqis out of [Kuwait] and he wasted it. If I have a chance to invade Iraq, if I had that much capital, I’m not going to waste it. I’m going to get everything passed I want to get passed and I’m going to have a successful presidency.”
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Just his thoughts, doesn't mean any of it would happen. This was probably before 9/11, but I don't really care when it was, he was just talking.The CIC has a Congress, and going into unpopular things wouldn't make him considered good at anything.
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Hussein was an obstacle for PNAC's objective, to “remain the predominant outside power in the region and preserve U.S. and Western access to the region’s oil.”
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We do need oil, it's a fact, but we do get some of it elsewhere. Hussein was Hussein. Doubt he would have played his cards the way he did if he had known the outcome. Very unfortunate.
I'm not an Iraq war supporter. I think it was a dumb idea, and we should have pulled out long ago, but Bush keeps on going. I just don't think Bush was deliberately being deceptive. He did what he thought was best, and he was wrong. Won't be the first time a President made a big error in judgment. He's paying for it in popularity. That has to be a killer.