President George Bush had in mind some personal interests that made him fight harder and come up with decisions that led to the war with Iraq. Bush hated the then Iraq’s President Saddam Hussein because he had planned an attack on his father earlier. Bush regretted and lamented a number of times why his father did not command the army to go into war with Iraq just a simpler way of getting to Saddam Hussein (Moore, 2009). George bush wanted to act better than his father did and this made him come up with this hard decision. External forces from the citizens and the notion that America had best war tools in the world contributed to his decision of going to war with Europe.
Bush made the decision out of pride to prove that America was better than Iraq when it came to war (Bazerman, 2009). George Bush found it as the only way out of the situation because America as the super powers had the challenge to take care of the world peace and protect its citizen at the time. Iraq, at that time had terrorists (Al Qaeda) who were responsible for the most terrorist attacks and this pushed George Bush to come up with such a verdict.
Iraq has more oil deposits and this contributed to the coming of the Americans. America went to Iraq in order to obtain the oil for self benefits instead it started a war to trick and convince Iraq (Zizek, 1996). America used the opportunity to drill oil that they took back to their home country. George Bush wanted to exercise the superiority of his military personnel. Bush wanted to prove that indeed they were ready, wanted to prove that indeed they were superpowers, and could do anything they wanted in any nation across the world. George Bush judgments favored his wishes because he did not consider other reasons such the innocent citizens of Iraq. America as a superpower failed because of George Bush decision forgetting to protect the lives and improvement of the economy of Iraq.
References
Bazerman, M, H., and Moore, D. A. (2009). Judgement in Managerial Decision Making (7th ed.). Hoboken NJ: John Wiley and Sons, inc.
Žižek, S. (1996). The indivisible remainder: An essay on Schelling and related matters. London [u.a.: Verso.
