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The Bush Tragedy, by Jacob Weisberg

“Well before the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, some experienced people raised their voices against it. One was Brent Scowcroft, former national security adviser to George H.W. Bush, the 41st president. Scowcroft made his point in a Wall Street Journal op-ed piece on Aug. 15, 2002, headlined “Don’t Attack Saddam.” Because Scowcroft was so close to Bush 41, the piece was widely viewed, as Jacob Weisberg puts it in The Bush Tragedy, as “a worried father’s only way of communicating with his bellicose son.” But that son, the 43rd president, reacted to Scowcroft “not as a concerned uncle but as an irksome surrogate for his dad.” Scowcroft, the younger Bush was quoted as saying, “has become a pain in the ass in his old age.” Read the review at the Washington Post.

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