[Retric]

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.

[djohnston]

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.

[Retric]

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