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Ego? Bush Jr trying to surpass his father isn’t particularly far fetched.

The signal war plans leak shows decisions for these kinds of things aren’t necessarily particularly well thought out.

IMO that's unlikely. For all his faults he doesn't seem particularly egotistical. He was more likely manipulated by Cheney and the MIC and probably as shell-shocked after 9/11 as the rest of us. Dumb war; dumber pretence; not a dick-measuring contest with his dad.

I don’t think anyone runs for the presidency without a major ego, but we may disagree with what ego means.

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