At least this time.
It has been widely reported that Mr. Bush's plans for war in Iraq began long before 9/11. Biographer Mickey Herskowitz quotes candidate George W. Bush: "One of the keys to being 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."
When a sadistic bully admits how much he likes to hurt people, believe him.
When Donald Rumsfeld proposes Iraq as a battlefield because it offered "better targets" than the terrorists' real hiding place, believe him.
When the Commander in Thief says he's going to invade Iraq when he has enough "political capital," you can change your name to Hal I. Burton and take it to the bank.
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