What to make of the Putin-Xi 'journey of peace'
Amanpour
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The Motives for George W. Bush's Invasion
I think the overriding motivation was fear and a sense of responsibility to prevent another attack. The allegations that he was trying to redress the errors of his father or get even with Saddam Hussein for Hussein's effort to assassinate his father, there seems to be no credible evidence to suggest that those were real factors. So it's really fear, power, hubris that motivated him. That was a tremendous problem because there was inadequate attention paid to what the war plan is defined as phase four of the war effort.
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