November 20, 2004
Posted on Democratic Underground Today
Iraq was on Bush's "to do" list back in 1999. (Media buries scoop).
Between the end of the Republican National Convention and Election Day, the Houston Chronicle spent roughly 50,000 words on President George W. Bush and his campaign for re-election. Perhaps most impressive, one of its own columnists had major news to break on the race.He just didn't, umm, break it to the Chronicle.
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According to Baker's report, Herskowitz said that Bush felt frustrated with his image as an "underachiever" compared to his father, that he had "failed" to complete his National Guard requirement during the Vietnam War and that his private business efforts had been "floundering."
Perhaps most consequential: Herskowitz said that Bush had Iraq on his "to do" list as early as 1999. "(Bush) said, 'If I have a chance to invade... if I had that much capital, I'm not going to waste it,' " Baker writes, adding later that the ellipses were for a pause and not words omitted.
An exclusive -- possibly explosive -- set of claims from a trusted Bush source? Surely one of the major news outlets from the often-sneered-at "liberal media elite" would jump at the chance to gore Bush. But not one would bite, says Baker. He wound up posting it on October 27 on the Guerrilla News Network Web site.
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Sorry, fellows. W told me back in '92 he was going to "get that Saddam fucker". It was a personal mission. We even discussed using the Mafia to kill Hussein with a codfish wrapped in newspaper, but eventually decided we couldn't trust our agent, one Sammy "The Bull" Gravano. Good thing, too.
By the way, guys: the tears are streaming down my face.
You stole my thunder Vman. I was gonna say Saddam had been on my list since the didn't kill him the first time.
Here's a tissue.
Posted by: RedNeck at November 21, 2004 12:19 AM