Iraq: Bush's decisions defined by ideology

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WALTER WILLIAMS
GUEST COLUMNIST

Sound presidential decision-making structures do not guarantee a successful policy. But the worse the decision process, the greater the danger that the policy devised will fail and wreak havoc on the nation when it is a major initiative.

President Bush's decision to launch a pre-emptive invasion of Iraq is as good an example as I've seen of a severely flawed decision-making process producing an ill-thought-through decision that quickly became a nightmare as that misbegotten policy was put in place.

Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies called the National Security Council where the decision was made "the weakest and most ineffective National Security Council in post-war American history."

Ideologically driven incompetence as usual dominated. Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and other top Defense Department officials -- all civilians, not the generals and admirals they commanded -- pressed the neoconservative conviction that Iraq had become the center of worldwide terrorism.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/192648_williams28.html

[Catfight]

1. If Bush didn't know he was lying, I think he'd be really pissed off

he was lied to. Therefore, the fact that no one has been fired from Mr. temperamental hot-head himself solidifies the fact that Bush knew all along what faulty crap he was saying to Americans.

Let's let him know, we don't appreciate being made fools of and fire him by a landslide!