He may well have believed the whispers in his ear from the war hawks. There was a systematic process of presenting him with distorted information.
The way canadian and American intelligence came to different conclusions about the same data is suggestive though.
That just kind of fits the narrative pre-9/11. I think a lot of people forget what a lame duck President he was considered prior to and even just after 9/11. There’s 0 chance he would have won a second term if there were an election on 9/10/01 - I think it’s what gave a lot of the conspiracy theories legs.
Who is GWB jr?
George Walker Bush, the 43rd President, is not a junior, and has no son of the same name.
His father, the 41st President, was George Herbert Walker Bush.