Bush's Brain book

[Michael Eisenstadt]

this book is hard to read because it is written so badly.

at p. 320 he quotes Tariq Aziz:

"This," he said, "is all about oil and Israel."

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thought trees:

reason(s) exist for Iraq invasion

   (1) oil & Israel

   (2) new theory of American world hegemony formulated
   at the American Enterprise Institute by academic
   types in the prise of fanatical rightwing imperialism
   + evangelical Christian fervor -> Bush's Brain

   (3) wartime presidential powers could be seized

   (4) all or some of the above and/or other reasons

no reason

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yesterday interview with Paul Wolfowitz:

Wolfowitz: No, there was no oversell. I mean, let's go back and remember 
what changed the whole world, which is 3,000 Americans were killed on 
September 11th by commercial airliners. And a couple of weeks later we 
got a warning of what somebody could do with envelopes filled with 
anthrax. And the question is, in the face of an understanding of a 
threat of that kind, and the kinds of intelligence assessments that we 
had, and the kind of determined efforts by this hostile regime to 
frustrate the whole effort to uncover their weapons, I don't think we 
were overselling at all.

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which seems to argue for no reason