check out the timeline. George Bush did not think of running for president until he met the Hawks in 1998. (George Shultz was part of that too) I would like to know what they talked about to him in 1998. I bet the sales pitch to Bush jr. went something like this: "We want Saddam, but we can't get elected. We feel piss poor we didn't get him in the first go round and you know Clinton doesn't have balls. You want Saddam becuase he was after your daddy in 1992 by hiring a hit squad. So lets get together. You run for president. You have a good chance of winning! Eventually we find a reason for going to war, and we run the whole thing. We all get Saddam outta power, and you get the glories of sending a dictator to hell. Remember Clinton has disgraced the presidency with Monica and you restore the presidency to its morals."