Bush on Saddam, May 2002: "I intend to kick his sorry motherf**king ass"

[Human Torch]

Book: In lead up to war, Bush's temper flared over reporters; Cheney aides mistook watering hole for WMD hiding place

RAW STORY
Published: Wednesday September 6, 2006

Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War, a new book arriving in stores today by veteran Newsweek investigative reporter Michael Isikoff and Nation Washington editor David Corn reveals a flurry of new details on the inner workings on the Administration in the lead-up to the Iraq war -- many of which cast unflattering light on the aggressive nature of the Bush-Cheney team that discounted facts from the intelligence community in favor of a policy that involved attacking Iraq, RAW STORY has learned. Among the book's myriad disclosures will include:



President Bush was driven by a visceral hatred of Saddam Hussein, which he privately demonstrated in expletive-laden tirades against the Iraqi dictator. In May 2002--months before he asked Congress for authority to attack Saddam-Bush bluntly revealed his ultimate game plan in a candid moment with two aides. When told that reporter Helen Thomas was questioning the need to oust Saddam by force, Bush snapped: "Did you tell her I intend to kick his sorry mother fucking ass all over the Mideast?" In a meeting with congressional leaders, the President angrily thrust his middle finger inches in front of the face of Senator Tom Daschle to illustrate Saddam's attitude toward the United States.



As part of an aggressive prewar covert action program--codenamed Anabasis (after an ancient text about a botched invasion of Babylon)--the CIA was authorized by the White House in the winter of 2002 to blow up targets in Iraq and engage in "direct action" (an agency euphemism for assassination) to weaken Saddam's regime and to prepare for his ouster by the U.S. military. For Anabasis, the agency smuggled Iraqi exiles to a top-secret site in the Nevada desert and trained them in sabotage and explosives. The Iraqi force, known as the Scorpions, was being trained to seize an isolated Iraqi military post-in order to create a provocation that could trigger a war with Iraq.



When Bush was first briefed that no WMDs had been found in Iraq, he was totally unfazed and asked few questions. "I'm not sure I've spoken to anyone at that level who seemed less inquisitive," the briefer told the authors.



http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Book_Bush_told_aides_he_would_0906.html

[Lexingtonian]

1. exactly as I thought

This war was instigated purely out of ego and (offended) vanity.

[Auntie Bush]

4. And pure unabashed hatred!

[PresidentWar]

2. Not personally, of course.

In a street smackdown, Saddam had the physique and the pure meanness to knock him out in two seconds. But we are long past the era in which Kings actually led a charge....

[kurth]

3. 2,652 died, 19,890 maimed/wounded for this sorry motherfucking asshole

And trillions of taxpayer dollars down the toilet for years to come.

Goddamned pure, unadulterated evil.

[Lexingtonian]

7. and uncounted Iraqis

They happen to be human beings and his victims, too.

[zbdent]

5. What's with the first pic?

Says "This image was stolen from ..." ... did they find out we're using it and change it?

[Human Torch]

6. I don't know...I'm seeing the image...

...but some folks will do what you've described when someone links to an image. I found all of these in Google Image Search...

:patriot:

[bainz]

8. hot linking.

Google Image Search hosts the thumbnails of the images displayed in a search result. However the full size image is hosted on the original server from which google indexed the data. With that being said, the first image in the post does, in fact, display text stating that it has been stolen. It may not show that for anyone who visited this post prior to the image change due to browser cache.

[tularetom]

9. A dick measuring contest pure and simple

Has to show mommie his weenie is bigger than poppy's.

[Straight Shooter]

10. "Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame." (Ben Franklin)

"... driven by a visceral hatred of Saddam Hussein, which he privately demonstrated in expletive-laden tirades ..."