The Tease of Things I Don't Need

Two years before 9/11, candidate Bush was already talking privately about attacking Iraq

Mickey Herskowitz, highly respected author of some 30 books and the original ghost writer of the planned autobiography of George W. Bush (which was completely re-written by Bush propagandist Karen Hughes as A Charge To Keep), has revealed many fascinating and telling details of his approximately 20 conversations with the then governor of Texas. It's a fascinating piece, and well worth the time to read. Admissions of not completing his national guard service but, instead, of being "excused." The plan to start a war in order to gain the political capital his father held briefly with respect to the war to liberate Kuwait and then to use that power to push all other agendas through. That Bush himself described his businesses as "floundering" -- just the type of detail that Bush handlers insisted be stricken and rewritten to conform to their projection of him as "a successful oilman who started up at least two new businesses."

“He told me that as a leader, you can never admit to a mistake,” Herskowitz said. “That was one of the keys to being a leader.”