<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">There has been quite a discussion about Bush's true incentives to start the war in Iraq. I am surprised that what I consider his real main motive has never been mentioned, as far as I know. It is that he wanted to <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">surpass his father</SPAN> who did not dare to invade Iraq. As a European I have sometimes wondered about US motives being family reasons, intending to please parents or wives or boost the pride of children, rather than the objective ones. In American literature I remember my astonishment about two examples : the policeman or superintendent trying to stop the fight between the two groups of hooligans in "West side story," stating some private motive, and an officer at the landing in Normandy at the end of WW2 in Irwin Shaw*s " The young lions" who, armed with a private gun with ivory handle, bragged about which impression he will make on his wife (or was it his parents?).<DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">-------------------------------------</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Prof. Hannes Eisler</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Department of Psychology</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Stockholm University</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">S-106 91 Stockholm</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Sweden</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">e-mail: <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN><A href="mailto:he@psychology.su.se">he@psychology.su.se</A></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">fax <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>: <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>+46-8-15 93 42</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">phone : <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>+46-8-163967 (university)</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>+46-8-6409982 (home)</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">internet: <A href="http://www.psychology.su.se/staff/he">http://www.psychology.su.se/staff/he</A></FONT></DIV> </DIV></SPAN></BODY></HTML>