Jane at Firedoglake has an interesting take on the father son competition between GHWB aka 41 and GWB aka 43.
firedoglake: I'll Believe in Santa Claus Before I'll Dubya Didn't Know about TraitorGate
Although the Bush family junta will pull together when it's time to collect their checks from the Carslyle group and preserve family hegemony, I think Digby is right in observing that there is a keen competition going on between the ne'er-do-well son and his patriarchal father that is positively Shakespearean.Which has everything to do with why I'll never be convinced that Junior was not in on the attempt to smear Joe Wilson from the get-go, despite the desperate efforts of GOP playmakers to keep the focus away from him even as they offer up the head of the much-hated Cheney on a plate. But let's dial it back a bit.Bush's rush to war was a clear indictment of everything his father stood for. Where Bush 41's war with Iraq was a carefully measured campaign that sought to build alliances, share internationally the responsibility and expense and carefully court the world of public opinion, Bush 43's war resembled a pack of drunken cowboys riding into town and recklessly shooting up the saloon.
Junior's war was a mockery of his father's efforts, and he didn't want to waste time on things like National Intelligence Estimates, an analysis of all the pre-war intelligence regarding Iraq which might have caught many of the specious claims that were waved through by partisan yahoos playing spy. Dick Durbin had to make a special request for an NIE to even be done prior to a declaration of war (p. 12 of the SSCI). National Intelligence Officers say that “ideally they would like about three months to produce an NIE;” this one was produced in less than twenty days, and its findings were never sent out for peer review or to a panel of outside experts because BushCo. said there wasn't time. (p. 13, SSCI)
Ergo, Curveball. And 2000 dead Americans.
Apparently, Joe Wilson and Brent Scowcroft were fairly good friends, which might have gotten Shrub's dander up. For all that Bush 43 plays the idiot, he really isn't. Remember, Jr. was the designated hatchet man for Bush the Smarter's administration.
anyway, read more here
Tags: Frog March, /GWB, /Plame
