>But was GWB an ok guy who was used as a puppet and manipulated?
Cheney was president. The expression on W's face when he was told of the attack while in that classroom shows he ws not on the inside, they probably kept him out of the loop for fear he might blab something. W did what he was told, although he didn't want to, thus the alcoholism. Then there's the 1984 Brownsville Massacre. An actual human being destroyed by the situation he was born into.