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Entry: Barrack, Brooks, and the Bushes Link: http://www.takimag.com/sniperstower/article/barrack_brooks_and_the_bushes#26600 Post contents: Right, Brooks is a shill. But for all the destructive folly of his son, it is Bush pêre who is politically responsible for the Middle East conditions that would give that son's folly such scope. Recall that Saddam Hussein was such a devoted US ally that he went to war with Iran when it had the US hostages; that is, at a time when virtually no one in the world but Saddam Hussein cared to please Jimmy Carter. Reagan and Rumsfeld then deepened the friendship still more. And so Bush pêre, diplomat extraordinaire, lacked the means to let staunch Saddam know that a Kuwaiti invasion would be frowned upon? It is a question that has never been explained, and hardly explored, and is the original miscalculation whence all the rest followed. The folly of the son only grew from the foundation established by his father. Sent at: 2008 10 12