"Hubris" shows a petty and delusional Bush, and an evil Cheney

[IndianaGreen]

Newsweek and MSNBC have an excerpt from 'Hubris,' the new Isikoff and Corn book about how the Bush administration sold the Iraq war to its supporters.

The following are examples of Bush's irrational behaviour which indicates that this is a man unfit for the Presidency and one that should be kept away from the nuclear trigger:

On the afternoon of September 26, 2002, Bush was at a Houston fundraiser for Republican senatorial candidate John Cornyn. Surrounded by old friends from Texas, he made his most bellicose public comments about Saddam yet. There would be “no discussion, no debate, no negotiation” with the Iraqi dictator. He repeated the standard litany: Saddam had tortured his own citizens, gassed the Kurds, invaded his neighbors: "There’s no doubt his hatred is mainly directed at us. There’s no doubt he can’t stand us.” But it was one particular line in this speech that would grab worldwide attention: “After all, this is a guy that tried to kill my dad at one time.”

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14740070/site/newsweek/page/3/

At one point, other members of Congress were able to witness Bush's intense feelings about Saddam up close. At a breakfast with a few congressional leaders in late September, Bush expressed exasperation when the issue of a diplomatic settlement arose. Saddam had shown his contempt for the United States, he told the legislators. There was no use in talking to him. “Do you want to know what the foreign policy of Iraq is to the United States is?” Bush asked angrily. The president then answered his own question by raising his middle finger and thrusting it inches in front Senator Daschle's face, according to a witness. “F--k the United States!" Bush continued. "That’s what it is—and that’s why we’re going to get him!"

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14740070/site/newsweek/page/4/

Additional discussion here:

Silencing a Skeptic (An excerpt from Isikoff & Corn's 'Hubris')

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x234119

[rusty charly]

1. Where's the TV mini-series of this?

[seabeyond]

2. in oct prior to war saddam sent surrender message to bushco

this may be the time for us all to start remembering. he was willingot go to a different country, with some money, measurably less than what we have spent to date and tell his soldiers to support bush. it was not widely talked about. i didnt hear it until after the war started. bush turned messagenger away and didnt listen to the man.

we DIDNT have to go thru this and we would have gotten our objective of getting saddam out

[babylonsister]

4. I remember and you're correct. The blivet was hellbent on invading. nt

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

5. Saddam gave the US gov't 15,000 pages of documents verifying

that the WMD programs had been dismantled.

The cabal shrugged off the papers as insignificant.

MKJ

[IndianaGreen]

6. And Saddam's son-in-law had defected to Jordan and he said WMD...

had been destroyed after the Gulf War.

[babylonsister]

3. How ironic is it that dimson's attitude is the mirror image of Saddam's?

Saddam had shown his contempt for the United States, he told the legislators. There was no use in talking to him.

vs.

* has shown his contempt for Iraq.... There was(is) no use in talking to him.

[IndianaGreen]

7. Saddam was a secular thug. Bush is closer to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Iran's President Ahmadinejad is as much a religious fanatic as Bush, but unlike Bush, he is not irrational or delusional.

[babylonsister]

8. Except I honestly don't believe dimson has a religious bone

in his body; he is just trying to grow/please his base. I just think he's evil.

[IndianaGreen]

9. I think Bush believes himself to be Gawd's annointed one

as many of his fundie followers believe him to be. Cheney is not a religious nut, he is just the closest thing we have to the evil emperor of Star Wars.