Charlie Rose: Robert Novak on Bush's Decision to Invade Iraq

WNYC AM once had an interview with a historian of the Bush family who wanted to refute the story that they had dealings with the Nazis directly in strategic metals. They had, but indirectly and their office was ordered shut down once WWII began. The author did make it clear that the current President and once Governor of Texas, made sure that he (Ed.- the "he" who owns it) owned the Texas baseball team the state of Texas had helped create and not the brother of the owner of CBS, Inc. who had also wanted to buy it. The profits from the sale of the team allowed the President to purchase the former German owned turkey ranch in Crawford, Texas, (coincidentally the British entertainer, Joe Cocker, owns a cattle ranch in Crawford, Colorado). Selling "Public Citizen" subscriptions door-to-door, one summer, an organization based in Texas once founded by Ralph Nader, I was surprised that a governor of a state was allowed to do that, and as a President, allowed to effectively create war without a public referendum, when "only Congress shall declare war" and I thought he was for us, the public who attends the games. When Pearl Harbor was attacked in Dec. 1941 and the Nazis declared war on the US a short week or so thereafter, and started the "battle of the Atlantic" sinking US shipping in January of 1942, there was no question, though some distrusted a "gut reaction" (the honorable woman Senator from Arkansas after the "day of infamy") about what had to be done. When a "team" from Germany of mostly Saudi religious fanatics caused the destruction and mayhem of 9/11, my gut reactions were not, "Iraq" but what was going on there in the "twin doozies"? And later, why was Judith Miller, a NY Times journalist in jail over "the source"? Robert Novak on Bush's Decision to Invade Iraq ---------------- Now playing: The Audience - Zig-Zag & Swirl via FoxyTunes