IS PRESIDENT BUSH SANE ?

[Zlatko Waterman]

(Paul Craig Roberts from AntiWar.com)

Is President Bush Sane?

by Paul Craig Roberts
Tens of millions of Americans want President George W. Bush to be impeached for the lies and deceit he used to launch an illegal war and for violating his oath of office to uphold the US Constitution. Millions of other Americans want Bush turned over to the war crimes tribunal at the Hague. The true fate that awaits Bush is psychiatric incarceration.

The president of the United States is so deep into denial that he is no longer among the sane.

Delusion still rules Bush three weeks after the American people repudiated him and his catastrophic war in elections that delivered both House and Senate to the Democrats in the hope that control over Congress would give the opposition party the strength to oppose the mad occupant of the White House.

On November 28 Bush insisted that US troops would not be withdrawn from Iraq until he had completed his mission of building a stable Iraqi democracy capable of spreading democratic change in the Middle East.

Bush made this astonishing statement the day after NBC News, a major television network, declared Iraq to be in the midst of a civil war, a judgment with which former Secretary of State Colin Powell concurs.

The same day that Bush reaffirmed his commitment to building a stable Iraqi democracy, a secret US Marine Corps intelligence report was leaked. According to the Washington Post, the report concludes: "the social and political situation has deteriorated to a point that US and Iraqi troops are no longer capable of militarily defeating the insurgency in al-Anbar province."

The Marine Corps intelligence report says that al-Qaeda is the "dominant organization of influence" in Anbar province, and is more important than local authorities, the Iraqi government and US troops "in its ability to control the day-to-day life of the average Sunni."

Bush’s astonishing determination to deny Iraq reality was made the same day that the US-installed Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki and US puppet King Abdullah II of Jordan abruptly cancelled a meeting with Bush after Bush was already in route to Jordan on Air Force One. Bush could not meet with Maliki in Iraq, because violence in Baghdad is out of control. For security reasons, the US Secret Service would not allow President Bush to go to Iraq, where he is "building a stable democracy."

Bush made his astonishing statement in the face of news leaks of the Iraq Study Group’s call for a withdrawal of all US combat forces from Iraq. The Iraq Study Group is led by Bush family operative James A. Baker, a former White House chief of staff, former Secretary of the Treasury, and former Secretary of State. Baker was tasked by father Bush to save the son. Apparently, son Bush hasn’t enough sanity to allow himself to be saved.

Bush’s denial of Iraqi reality was made even as one of the most influential Iraqi Shi'ite leaders, Moqtada al-Sadr, is building an anti-US parliamentary alliance to demand the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq.

Maliki himself appears on the verge of desertion by his American sponsors. The White House has reportedly "lost confidence" in Maliki’s "ability to control violence." Fox "News" disinformation agency immediately began blaming Maliki for the defeat the US has suffered in Iraq. NY Governor Pataki told Fox "News" that "Maliki is not doing his job." Pataki claimed that US troops were doing "a great job."

A number of other politicians and talking heads joined in the scapegoating of Maliki. No one explained how Maliki can be expected to save Iraq when US troops cannot provide enough security for the Iraqi government to go outside the heavily fortified "green zone" that occupies a small area of Baghdad. If the US Marines cannot control Anbar province, what chance is there for Maliki? What can Maliki do if the security provided by US troops is so bad that the president of the US cannot even visit the country?

The only people in Iraq who are safe belong to al-Qaeda and the Sunni insurgents or are Shi'ite militia leaders such as al-Sadr.

An American group, the Center for Constitutional Rights, has filed war crimes charges in Germany against former US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. A number of former US attorneys believe President Bush and Vice President Cheney deserve the same.

Bush has destroyed the entire social, political, and economic fabric of Iraq. Saddam Hussein sat on the lid of Pandora’s Box of sectarian antagonisms, but Bush has opened the lid. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians have been killed as "collateral damage" in Bush’s war to bring "stable democracy" to Iraq. Tens of thousands of Iraqi children have been orphaned and maimed. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have fled their country. The Middle East is aflame with hatred of America, and the ground is shaking under the feet of American puppet governments in the Middle East. US casualties (killed and wounded) number 25,000.

And Bush has not had enough!

What better proof of Bush’s insanity could there be?

[stilltrucking]

Not helpful
counter productive
intellectual masturbation

not politic

is the united states insane?

can a whole country go insane?



is the world insane?

a friend once told me that when everyone looks crazy to you it is a pretty good sign you are cracking up.



what is his point?

i think i must be crazy cause i don't get it.

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pardon me Norman but you know I am crazy

We all know that Bush is a cheer leader a huckster, and a christian

we all are guilty of double think

I think

How can you make a sale unless you double think

I been thinking about that 1947 movie called The Huckster. That is what we have now, maybe it is always been that way, hucksters, I got to rationalize so much in my job, what to leave in what to leave out. Lies of omission and commission. I need a new job.

Bush is many things but I don't think he is any crazier than the millions of christian zionists in his base

Maybe it takes one to know one.
Double think, I watched Stephen Hadley on TV today, so reasonable sounding,

I don't think it is a time to go carrying around pictures of Chairman Mao

we all want to save the world

we all want a revolution

I suppose Roberts is preaching to his choir stiring up his base.

you will not win hearts and minds by calling bush a war criminal, even if it is the truth.

[stilltrucking]

They say that one of the signs of insanity is when someone cannot interpret language correctly. If you asked him what it means to strike while the iron is hot, he will say something like you heat it in a fire and then you have to brand the cattle before it gets cold. Subtlety is lost on me; I probably miss the point of the article.

[Zlatko Waterman]

Roberts is belaboring the obvious, but five years after the insane decision to back ( i.e. elect) the author of 152 executions as governor, including several of the mentally retarded, and hundreds of thousands dead from whimsy and total lack of an ability to consider the consequences in Iraq, the audience for tv and other propaganda pipes can't figure out the obvious.

The Republican defeat on Nov, 7th was not so much an expression of disgust for the war, or the launching of the attack in the first place, as it was for the immorality of the Republicans and their scandals, according to a good deal of post-election research.

Some interesting drivel ( and nice dissent) here:

http://www.aolelectionsblog.com/2006/11 ... om-defeat/

The title of the article I posted belongs to Roberts, not to me.

The answer is obvious to me: Unfortunately, he's "sane" in the world's definition.

He's just morally and intellectually helpless and impotent ( what many refer to today with the pop cliche, "clueless"), which is not the same as saying he's innocent, which he isn't.

Thanks for the comments, ST.

--Z

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The Republican defeat on Nov, 7th was not so much an expression of disgust for the war, or the launching of the attack in the first place, as it was for the immorality of the Republicans and their scandals, according to a good deal of post-election research.

"My fear is that the Democrats will wake up on November 8 and think they did it,"
...
"This year is shaping up as a repudiation of Republicans, not an endorsement of some Democratic platform," he explained. "

Les Francis,...




Thanks for the reply. Sorry for the rant.

[stilltrucking]

The answer is obvious to me: Unfortunately, he's "sane" in the world's definition.

He's just morally and intellectually helpless and impotent ( what many refer to today with the pop cliche, "clueless"), which is not the same as saying he's innocent, which he isn't.

I wish I had said that.

I am as subtle as a lynch mob.

"what is wrong with this country"

All I got to do is watch The Trinity Network. God Pornography.

"Assent---and you are sane--- Demur---you're straightaway dangerous--- And handled with a Chain"

http://www.tbn.org/

I think Bush is a true believer. Which is the insanity of the norm.

The insanity of the herd.

[stilltrucking]

Thinking about why I was thinking about norms. I quess it was this pit from doreen's 2005 thanksgiving poem. Probably nothing to do with all this but it stuck in my mind.

and yet
there are norms
opposed by eccentric whims,

doreen peri

I have seen people changed by their belief in Christ. Bush made such a campaign issue out of his religious conversion. Maybe he will be like the guy who wrote Amazing Grace. It may take another thirty years for his conviction to strike home. After all slave trading was the norm.

sorry I am getting way off track but insanity is such a hobby of mine.