Will we ever get a true answer?
What was the Bush Administration really about? Was it only about power and money? God knows Cheney and his cronies have made enough of that out of this fiasco. But if that is true, to what end? After laying waste to 200 years of carefully constructed and protected civil rights and liberties, do they really not expect to damage they have done to turn and bite them on their corpulent asses? Have they no vision that a incoming Democratic executive and legislative majority will use the very tools of destruction they forced upon us to subsequently beat them over the head and prosecute them mercilessly in the coming years? Or do they think their packing of the judicial with sympathetic conservatives will protect them from harm? When their carefully constructed empires of avarice and authoritarianism begin to crumble in a dying economy, already signalled by the sub-prime mess, will they all skip to Paraguay? Do they think the Rapture will save them and their ill-gotten loot?
I can only surmise this mangling of America and the things it is supposed to stand for is what comes from not listening to lectures at Yale while earning a "Gentlemen's C" and to then rely on the stupidity of impotent advisors with a generation of seething revenge and self-righteous hubris in their bellies who have made you their stooge because you will be "the decider" to execute their evil plans. But that still does not answer the "Why."
When the last Bushie leaves the last political office, will the sleeper cells strategically placed throughout every executive branch agency be able to protect every evil that has been done, as well as its evil-doer? I can't see how that will happen.
So then, what's it all about, Alfie? A thousand year Reich run by and for the neocons? That's gone already. Grab the gold and run leaving so many legal and administrative booby traps that future administrations and legislators will never sort it out? Possible, but too risky for chickenhawks. Or was it simply the pure exercise of power for the sake of being powerful, consequences be damned, under the cloak of justice and freedom? This is the most likely answer I can find.
As Bush and his evil minions try to defend themselves and to re-write their sorry failures and history in the coming years, will we ever get any closer to what their true motivations really were?