"Was Bush misunderstood on Iraq?"

"President Bush told the British newspaper The Times he regrets using phrases like “bring them on” and “wanted dead or alive” after 9/11. He says it made him seem anxious for war in the eyes of the world. The president says that in retrospect, he could have used a different tone from the cowboy rhetoric that sent the message that he wasn’t a man of peace."

A rebuttal from the same citation: "No, he wanted that war. As he told author Mickey Herskowitz in 1999, “One of the keys to being seen as a great leader is to be seen as a commander-in-chief. My father had all this political capital built up when he drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait and he wasted it. If I have a chance to invade…if I had that much capital, I’m not going to waste it.”

He thinks the country was too stupid to understand him, his ego, his ambition and his devotion to his constiuency.

Arf