[QUOTE=roachboy]it might help if you actually read the various accounts of the various memos that are at the heart of this particular round of contreversy about the war in iraq: there are in the neighborhood of 7--they make it pretty clear that bush was decided on war by july 2002. they are explicit about the administration and its actions in cooking up intel to justify their policy decision./QUOTE]
Actually, as I was researching bias and selective exposure in media for a communications term paper this spring, I found the following quote from March of 1999 by Bush, spoken to the ghostwriter of his autobiography.
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One of the keys to being seen as a great leader is to be seen as a commander-in-chief. 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….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.
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He was itching for a chance.