TAIBBI: Forget What We Know Now: We Knew Then the Iraq War Was a Joke

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29. I think his "Daddy" issues were more Oedipal. HE finally had the chance to prove HE was the

bush family Alpha Male. I think he feels totally vindicated and right and just and proper - mainly because he sure showed Daddy up. He "won" (or rather, STOLE) TWO terms in the Oval Office. Daddy only got one, after all. That family is male-dominated. It was georgie, jebbie, neil, marvin, AAAAAAAAND one surviving sister, dorothy bush (wait for it... ) KOCH!!!
Her husband: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Koch who ironically doesn't seem to have a strong linkage to the koch brothers we all know and love, although I suspect he's probably somewhere on that family tree.

But it's a family that's male-dominated by gender. What do you suppose the constant undercurrent in that household was? Lots of young bucks, probably hugely competitive, fighting over Mom's affections, Dad's approval, and eventually as they grew to adulthood - I would suspect there was an inevitable deep-down wish within each of the sons to best their dad. He cast a tall shadow, what with his resume and his business dealings and the Carlyle Group and all that. Made BOATLOADS of money. So aside from his power and governmental clout and all THOSE resume credits, there was the financial empire. That's a big mountain to climb. I suspect all the testosterone in that family compelled the sons to try to prove their own worth. And top their accomplished, uber-connected dad. dubya probably feels he's the Alpha Male now. Hey, he can still remember fist-fighting with his dad, seriously, when one of their many disagreements turned physical - even with all the brain cells he's killed in his life. And they're gonna protect that status with their very lives.

I also suspect the bush clan fancies itself the New American Royal Family. I suspect, deep down, they look at the Kennedys and that legacy of super-wealth and power and influence but also a very serious sense of social obligation. All they saw was the super-wealth/power/influence of the Kennedys and the Presidency they achieved and the likelihood they would have gotten a second Presidency if Bobby Kennedy had lived. And they wanted to best that. They probably still feel superior to all that. And they want you to agree. They want ALL of us to agree. They're looking at a "Royal Dynasty" even at this very moment. Because they're already busily grooming jebbie's son george prescott bush for greater things. He's the heir apparent.

They crave power, and they intend to do EVERYTHING they can to keep it.