Business Week: "What Bush vs. Saddam Is All About"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/bw/20040217/bs_bw/nf200402174316db076&e=5

"I am George Bush. You tried to kill my father. Prepare to die."

"Sound familiar? It's based on a famous line from The Princess Bride, a gently fractured fairy tale of a movie from 1987, and I'd argue that it gets to the heart of why many Americans think George W. Bush went to war in Iraq. The Princess Bride features an accomplished swordsman named Inigo Montoya, played by Mandy Patinkin. Montoya's life mission is to track down the evildoer of a lord who killed his dad. He practices over and over the exact words he'll say when he finally confronts the villain: "I am Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."

"Any son recognizes the emotional power of a monstrous person's efforts to exact injury and insult upon his father. I've been hearing Inigo Montoya's words over and over ever since Bush was elected to office. And I've heard many ordinary Nascar Dads say nearly the same thing. "Well, what did Saddam expect? He tried to kill Bush's father." From Shakespeare to the Godfather movies, the power of the father-son relationship has formed the motivational backdrop of powerful human drama."

[childslibrarian]

1. I agree

I have always thought, as a former therapist, that this was Bush's motivation for going to war with Iraq. However, I do not think he alone is running the country. And the revenge fantasies of the Bush family were not the motivation of the PNACers....

[Jacobin]

2. There is a lot to that, why he was so easily led there by the neo cons

Of course, using hundreds of billions of our treasure and the lives of our countrymen and tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians for his little revenge is so over the top, so deranged, so demented, so ghastly, so insane, so psychopathic, that it is simply beyond description and should result in him finishing his pathetic life in a jail for war crimes.

[Eric J in MN]

3. The author's name is Douglas Harbrecht, by the way. (nt)

nt

[NashVegas]

4. GWB Is No Inigo Montoya

Inigo busted his ass to be the best swordfighter in the world.

GWB busted 2 or 3 companies and had to be bailed out by daddy's rich friends.

GWB is no Inigo, he's the bloody Count!

[Toby109]

5. Another reason: Bush's actions on 9/11

Or rather inactions. I think he was compensating for the ugly whispers about his apparent lack of nerves that day.

Just a thought.