The war president "at peace" with himself
Bush's 2003 conversation with the Spanish prime minister shows his smug determination to invade Iraq at all costs.
By Joe Conason
Reuters/Larry Downing
George W. Bush answers a question during a joint news conference with Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar at the president's compound in Crawford, Texas, Feb. 22, 2003.
Sept. 28, 2007 | "The only thing that worries me is your optimism."
So remarked José María Aznar, then the prime minister of Spain, in a prescient moment during a February 2003 conversation with George W. Bush about the impending invasion of Iraq.
According to the transcript of that conversation published on Wednesday by the Spanish daily El Pais, Aznar implored Bush for "a little more patience" in building international consensus for action against Saddam Hussein and in seeking possible alternatives to war, in order to assuage the intense public opposition to American policy in Spain and throughout Europe.
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