![]() ![]() ![]() You would be hard pressed, on a fair reading, to say the chapters on Iraq show a "rush to war". And surely he has a point when he says: "If I wanted to mislead the country into war why would I pick an allegation that was certain to be disproven publicly shortly after we invaded the country?"ĭoubtless the Bush-haters will assume he wrote the letters to his family as a form of prewar spin planning that could be trotted out postwar when it all went wrong. They are the letters, and this is the account, of someone who tried to avoid war, but could no longer ignore Saddam's defiance, or the view of every intelligence agency in the world that Iraq had WMD, a threat that could be parked pre-September 11, but not after it. My answer to the first is that you don't get to be US president – twice – by being stupid that he is more reflective and self-analytical than the public image suggests – a trait confirmed by his book that September 11 changed the world in the eyes of most Americans and that I do not buy the idea that he was hellbent on war in Iraq – also confirmed by the book, and in particular by the letters to his father and daughters. "Is he as stupid as he looks?" is up there alongside "did you invent the phrase the 'People's Princess'", "do you regret the dossier?" and "is Malcolm Tucker based on you?" as frequently asked questions at Q&A sessions I do. You see, in Guardianland, as in other parts of the world, one is not supposed to think anything but ill of Bush. ![]()
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