One of the things I believe it's important to know is that Bush is a product not of the US working class but the elite and privileged.
He attended Yale and Harvard because of his parents and the Ivy League tradition and monied influence in back of him. If you don't believe that an education can be bought in this country than check out the Bush scholastic history.

You can't expect someone who employs his insider connections in business to have empathy for people who are less well off than he is.
It's very easy for him to distance himself from the outgrowth of the scourge of war. He has never been mano-a-mano in a war and probably has seen little blood and dirt in his life. He was AWOL in the Texas Air Command.   He doesn't really have the kind of courage that would enable him to lead the troops.

The Bushes have a bad track record in their business practices.
They have run repeatedly in violation of the SEC and W was never indicted for the Harken Energy scandal. Neil Bush got off easy
when he sank the Silverado Savings and Loan. It can be proven on a matter of public records that these brothers are unscrulous in their business dealings bordering if not outright illegal. It makes
Clinton's Whitewater deal seem like petty larceny although in that case nothing was proven. That was a radical right-wing vendetta.

For further info on this check out Paul Krugman's and Molly Ivin's books.

The Baghdad Caper is just another extension of the Enron, Harken and (fill-in-the-blank) corporate world.

Frank Hamilton