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Entry: The Smoking Gun Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/the_smoking_gun#5067 Post contents: Thanks for pointing out the importance of Blumenthal's article. Years ago, Russ Baker wrote "War on My Mind," documenting this quote from GWB's one time ghost-writer: “He was thinking about invading Iraq in 1999,” said author and journalist Mickey Herskowitz. “It was on his mind. He said to me: ‘One of the keys to being seen as a great leader is to be seen as a commander-in-chief.’ And he said, ‘My father had all this political capital built up when he drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait and he wasted it.’ He said, ‘If I have a chance to invade….if I had that much capital, I’m not going to waste it. I’m going to get everything passed that I want to get passed and I’m going to have a successful presidency.” Sent at: 2008 08 29