Straitjacket Bush
The president’s warmongering remarks on the Iranian threat suggest he is psychotic. Really.
Forget impeachment.
Liberals, put it behind you. George W. Bush and Dick Cheney shouldn’t be treated like criminals who deserve punishment. They should be treated like psychotics who need treatment.
Because they’ve clearly gone mad. Exhibit A: We’re in the middle of a disastrous war in Iraq, the military and political situation in Afghanistan is steadily worsening, and the administration’s interrogation and detention tactics have inflamed anti-Americanism and fueled extremist movements around the globe. Sane people, confronting such a situation, do their best to tamp down tensions, rebuild shattered alliances, find common ground with hostile parties and give our military a little breathing space. But crazy people? They look around and decide it’s a great time to start another war.
That would be with Iran, and you’d have to be deaf not to hear the war drums. Last week, Bush remarked that “if you’re interested in avoiding World War III . . . you ought to be interested in preventing [Iran] from having the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon.” On Sunday, Cheney warned of “the Iranian regime’s efforts to destabilize the Middle East and to gain hegemonic power . . . [we] cannot stand by as a terror-supporting state fulfills its most aggressive ambitions.” On Tuesday, Bush insisted on the need “to defend Europe against the emerging Iranian threat.”
Huh? Iran is now a major threat to Europe? The Iranians are going to launch a nuclear missile (that they don’t yet possess) against Europe (for reasons unknown because, as far as we know, they’re not mad at anyone in Europe)? This is lunacy in action.
Writing in Newsweek on Oct. 20, Fareed Zakaria, a solid centrist and former editor of Foreign Affairs, put it best. Citing Bush’s invocation of “the specter of World War III if Iran gained even the knowledge needed to make a nuclear weapon,” Zakaria concluded that “the American discussion about Iran has lost all connection to reality. . . . Iran has an economy the size of Finland’s. . . . It has not invaded a country since the late 18th century. The United States has a GDP that is 68 times larger and defense expenditures that are 110 times greater. Israel and every Arab country (except Syria and Iraq) are . . . allied against Iran. And yet we are to believe that Tehran is about to overturn the international system and replace it with an Islamo-fascist order? What planet are we on?”
Planet Cheney.
Zakaria may be misinterpreting the president’s remark about World War III though. He saw it as a dangerously loopy Bush prediction about the future behavior of a nuclear Iran — the idea being, presumably, that possessing “the knowledge” to make a nuclear weapon would so empower Iran’s repressive leaders that they’ll giddily rush out and start World War III.
But you could read Bush’s remark as a madman’s threat rather than a madman’s prediction — as a warning to recalcitrant states, from Germany to Russia, that don’t seem to share his crazed obsession with Iran. The message: Fall into line with administration policy toward Iran or you can count on the U.S.A. to try to start World War III on its own. And when it comes to sparking global conflagration, a U.S. attack on Iran might be just the thing. Yee haw!
You’d better believe these guys would do it too. Why not? They have nothing to lose — they’re out of office in 15 months anyway. Après Bush-Cheney, le déluge! (Have fun, Hillary.)
But all this creates a conundrum. What’s a constitutional democracy to do when the president and vice president lose their marbles?
The U.S. is full of ordinary people with serious forms of mental illness — delusional people with violent fantasies who think they’re the president, or who think they get instructions from the CIA through their dental fillings.
The problem with Bush is that he is the president — and he gives instructions to the CIA and military, without having to go through his dental fillings.
Impeachment’s not the solution to psychosis, no matter how flagrant. But despite their impressive foresight in other areas, the framers unaccountably neglected to include an involuntary civil commitment procedure in the Constitution.
Still, don’t lose hope. By enlisting the aid of mental health professionals and the court system, Congress can act to remedy that constitutional oversight. The goal: Get Bush and Cheney committed to an appropriate inpatient facility, where they can get the treatment they so desperately need. In Washington, the appropriate statutory law is already in place: If a “court or jury finds that [a] person is mentally ill and . . . is likely to injure himself or other persons if allowed to remain at liberty, the court may order his hospitalization.”
I’ll even serve on the jury. When it comes to averting World War III, it’s really the least I can do.
Copyright 2007 Los Angeles Times
Welcome to 2002, L.A. Times. Better late than never, though this commentary is too cute by half. I doubt the founders could have envisioned an executive holding power beyond the point that the possibility of his being criminally insane was a credible discussion.
Where they really went wrong is not seeing television on the horizon. Probably would’ve scrapped the whole democracy thing then and there if they had.
Heirs of a cold war
Thats what weve become
Inheriting troubles Im mentally numb
Crazy, I just cannot bear
Im living with something that just isnt fair
Mental wounds not healing
Who and whats to blame
Im going off the rails on a crazy train
-Black Sabbath
If only it were simply psychosis. There’s enough in it for the Dems and their backers to go along with it too.
How is it that psychosis became a good rallying point, a focal point of leadership?
We’re clearly missing pieces of the puzzle here. It may be that the country is run by Bilderbergs/Trialaterals/etc. and the only personality type who’ll do their bidding without question are inherently sociopathic sorts.
We should be so fortunate to lay the blame on only a handful of individuals. I’m afraid its much more rampant than that, a sort of psychosis that spreads not along biological vectors, but along memetic. An idea virus.
The reference to Crazy Train is appropriate but it’s on Ozzy Osbourne’s first solo album Blizzard of Ozz,not by Black Sabbath.
However, many Sabbath tunes can equally apply to the Bush/Cheney lunacy - War Pigs, Electric Funeral, Children of the Grave etc.
In fact the similarities are a little too close for comfort.
A very interesting concept.
Unfortunately, the medical profession has been restricted since Reagan to giving us reports on presidential colonoscopy, inspecting the presidential after, and has totally ignored the other end of the presidential corpus.
A polyp free diagnosis leaves america feeling it will live “happily ever after.” Or you can expect to see news headlines reassuring us to the tune of “Presidential Anus Not Misbehaving.”
Rosa Brooks is right though all tongue in cheeks aside, madness is the only way to describe US policy at this time and the leaders who, drunk with influence and power, are steering this country into one head on collision after another.
No doubt about it, Ozzy is the sane one. Obviously, the Bilderbergers live in another dimension, our current leaders are just following orders. I hope they enjoy bunker life but might suggest they collect some of us proles to raise crops for them after the apocalypse. Orwell was off by 23 years.
“There is nothing puzzling … about America’s gratuitously aggressive foreign policy or about the oligarchs’ successful efforts to drag the Republic into five wars. What an aggressive foreign policy accomplishes by slow degrees, a state of war accomplishes in a trice. Overnight [war] kills reform, overnight it transforms insurgents into traitors and the Republic into an imperiled realm. Overnight it strangles free politics, distracts and overawes the citizenry. Overnight it blasts public hope.”
Walter Karp
What if al qaeda has a suitcase nuke? And what if they planted it at the next Bilderberger meeting?
“Bush on the Couch”…Justin Frank, M. D. ..read it! Very scary!
The World changed in 1947 when President Truman sent a bomber to fly around the world. He was the first human in history who could destroy any spot on Earth and kill anyone and everyone there.
That power has multiplied, ‘exploded’ exponentially.
George Bush has the power to stop human history. To erase our future.
The people we voted for, who were given our power in order to save us have failed, deliberately. They are too busy trying to get the best parking space in Hell to save the world.
Share your love with your children. Now, today.
Tomorrow may not come.
“[we] cannot stand by as a terror-supporting state fulfills its most aggressive ambitions.” - Dick Cheney
Uh, maybe the US should look in the mirror. We’re the only ones out there actually acting as a terror-supporting state fulfilling the most aggressive and psychotic ambitions of its leaders.
the sad part?
the psychosis was shared.
the ovations..
remember?
bush was not alone.
I am not an expert on the subject of Psychology, but watching recent News Clips of the President speaking, there is some “Body Language” issues for sure. If you saw Hitler near the end speaking in public as his mental health was declining. Not saying there are similarities but??
Listen, this is the end of the Bush adminstration spaghetti fling: to see what sticks.
Will it be: Bomb Iran, Invade Cuba, or Buy Mexico for 7 Billion Dollars?
Which has enough hot starch to stick to the wall?
Ah sarcasm. When reality begins to resemble satire… sarcasm is the refuge of the sane.
Sadly as you read her article …you had to keep asking yourself whether she was kidding or not. Even now a part of keeps saying…you know she does have a real point.
Funny how that ain’t that funny! She really was kidding right?
On the other hand…
“But all this creates a conundrum. What’s a constitutional democracy to do when the president and vice president lose their marbles?”
Colin Powell needs to gather together a Special Forces ODA, storm the White House, arrest the entire Executive Branch, and Cheney, whisk them off to an undisclosed location awaiting arraignment on charges of illegal invasion and occupation, violating FISA, lying to the American people, massive theft, etc, and then turn over the reigns of power to Pelosi.
Chaos will ensue. Hopefully. But the Cheneybush Operation Armageddon will be stopped cold - and, hey, we’re smart, we’ll clean up the mess after we and the world breath a giant sign of relief…
“Impeachment’s not the solution to psychosis, no matter how flagrant. But despite their impressive foresight in other areas, the framers unaccountably neglected to include an involuntary civil commitment procedure in the Constitution.”
No, Impeachment is the solution, but first we have to have an honest opposition party to attempt it. The Founders designed a constitutional republic that was essentially self-policing. It is a system dependent on a Congress with people in it who are not crooks (Ron Paul being the only one among hundreds), people of honor who take their oath of office seriously (a joke–two words: Nancy Pelosi), and a free and independent Press (hello, Rupert Murdoch and Rush Limbaugh).
We’re essentially screwed.
frank1569: “Colin Powell needs to gather together a Special Forces ODA, storm the White House, arrest the entire Executive Branch, and Cheney, whisk them off to an undisclosed location awaiting arraignment on charges of illegal invasion and occupation, violating FISA, lying to the American people, massive theft, etc, and then turn over the reigns (sic) of power to Pelosi.”
Is this humor? Powell is a proven liar who helped start the current war. Pelosi is a petty crook–and she’s one of them.
Jeeez.. and I thought I was the only one who thought George ‘W’ was a nut! Yet folks, he still walks free. Amazing
When you have a president that believes he was chosen by GOD, like Moses, to carry out the scenario described in Revelation, and a Vice that believes he is destined to become dictator of the world, it will take more than a joke like Colin Powell to change anything. May as let it play out, we don`t want Pelosi running the country either. Just carry your Bible around for the Bush plan, and carry your assault rifle for Cheney`s plan.
I’ve been suggesting the straitjacket now for quit some time.
Make no mistake. The USA has been an out-of-control world menace since 1945. Nagasaki was even more heinous than Hiroshima, because it had no moral reason whatsoever justifying it. Pure evil hiding as “saving lives”, techno-curiosity, etc.
Since then, an unremitting heavy-handed approach to “improving” others… always with the veiled threats….we have been the abusing father…….thank the neocons for their unremitting greed and we finally realize just who we really are, all of us.
This simple fact is behind much of our people’s inaction in the face of the present insanity. We have been traumatized by the events of the past 60 years, and now exhibit numerous signs of alienation from most kinds of the experiences humans have always required to function rationally. Mass communications have possibly been instrumental in staving off some of the anomie and desperation but we are a sad folk, willfully ignorant of our responsibilities as citizens….and suicidal, speaking of the culture’s inability to orient itself in positive ways.
When the “spiritual revival” forseen in the 60’s (post-christian, nature-loving, based in daily appreciation for all of life, rational, relaxed and optimistic) actually occurs we wil be ready for the next step. Hang on folks. We might just make it.
For anyone who thinks Rosa’s topic joke — psychiatrist Justin Frank, has written a book analyzing Herr Bush in the same way the CIA creates in depth psychological profiles of other world leaders.
Fascinating and plenty scary. An understatement: this is not a healthy guy.
Besides Frank’s book - “Bush on the Couch,” his blogs can be found on Huffington Post.
Here are a two brief ones:
‘The February 8, 2007 New York Times editorial on Lisa Nowak goes far in recommending that NASA officials reevaluate their psychological screening procedures for astronauts. It notes, however, that after initial screening, “there are no formal psychological evaluations during their years of service thereafter.”
Lisa Nowak had no passengers in her 900-mile mad dash to Florida to have it out with her rival. George W. Bush has the entire nation on board as he speeds once again into Baghdad, seemingly without brakes or controls. Most of his passengers are too frightened to tell him to stop. Republican Senators are enjoying the ride and don’t want the rest of us to spoil it for them by talking about how dangerous a driver Bush is.
The one job for which psychological screening should be required is that of President of the United States. It has never been so clear before, as it is with this President, that regular psychiatric evaluation is necessary - in this case to determine Bush’s capacity to think and his ability to perceive reality. Even his ultra-conservative supporters have begun to question whether or not Bush is delusional, most pointedly Joe Scarborough on MSNBC. Bush loyalists like Pat Buchanan have expressed similar sentiments.
It’s time to pull George W. Bush over, end his destructive journey and test him to assess whether he is mentally fit to continue to serve out his term. I am willing to bet, based on my medical experience treating psychotic patients, that he would be found to be unfit for office.’
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‘George W. Bush is an untreated alcoholic. There can be no medical or psychiatric doubt about that. But it is not only President Bush who shows typical characteristics of what AA calls the “dry drunk” syndrome; his inner circle, which includes many in the media, behaves like the typical family of a dysfunctional drinker.
Such families live in constant fear - often masked by denial and bravado - that their alcoholic father will start drinking again if he is under too much stress. And one major stress that untreated alcoholics cannot deal with is criticism. They become defensive immediately, before attacking or hiding. And their family moves into high-gear protection mode.
Whenever things get tough for the Bush administration they use the same strategy - blame Bill Clinton. This is the strategy that will emerge in response to the classified National Intelligence Estimate report that found that the Bush-led Iraq war has invigorated Islamic radicalism and worsened the global terrorist threat. I’m waiting for bumper stickers to appear saying “Blame Bill”.
This behavior of blaming anyone but dad is so typical and predictable that it shouldn’t be surprising to those who are members of such families, or those who have alcoholic friends. What concerns me is that the media is once again shielding Bush.
In response to the intelligence report, Senator Ted Kennedy said, “How many more independent reports, how many more deaths, how much deeper into civil war will Iraq need to fall for the White House to wake up and change its strategy in Iraq?”
I think the damning report matters not, and the White House will keep its same two-fold strategy: continue to occupy Iraq by force, since Bush’s “beliefs” trump his own government’s intelligence; and repeatedly blame Bill Clinton for whatever bad news comes its way.’
‘One of George W. Bush’s deepest unconscious wishes has finally come true - he publicly brought down his own family, particularly his father. He had been building up to this point throughout his public and private life - most famously when he told Bob Woodward that he never consulted his father about invading Iraq, and that he preferred a “higher Father.” To make matters worse he wouldn’t let his father speak at the 2004 Republican Convention and soon thereafter consigned him to tour the world with the man who had defeated him in 1992 - Bill Clinton.”
This time, W didn’t have to do anything. He has already destroyed his father’s legacy of international cooperation. He continues practice what Bush 41 once derisively labeled “voodoo economics”, driving America into irrevocable debt. As usual, W was nowhere to be found when his father broke down while attempting to celebrate brother Jeb’s career - Jeb, who may be the real man of the family.
When Bush 41 started talking about Jeb’s 1994 gubernatorial loss in Florida he wept openly, sputtering that Jeb didn’t whine or complain about losing; that how a person handles victory and defeat is the true measure of a man. He choked up on the word “defeat,” a word he must feel applies to his entire dynasty.
For it is not simply that W is a failure, which he is. He is also a success - he breaks things more thoroughly than any president in history. And now W has branded his entire family as failures, Jeb’s defeat becoming the prototype for future family humiliations. While Bush 41 defends his firstborn, he reveres his third-born. And in his heart of hearts he knows that the firstborn has murdered not only our sons and daughters, but his family’s hope for a lasting legacy.’
Realizing their leaders are ‘nuts’ may be the best thing that has happened to Americans since the beginning of this Administration; don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.
More importantly, remember that whatever happens now, it is the responsibility of your leaders; not you; not your patriotic troops; not those in positions of responsibility who may not have been ‘read-in’ and on all the facts; only the White House, it’s early appointees; and the GOP leadership that gave them the green light.
All other Americans will be responsible to rebuild America and the world these leaders leave behind.
When I read your comments I am inspired and encouraged by your honesty your strength and your determination.
Like the Phoenix, America will rise from the ashes; stronger, smarter and more determined than ever to make the right choices for herself and for her world.
For psychology buffs and anyone else: two
more from Justin Frank, MD
What to Do With an Unreachable President?
Posted April 28, 2006 | 12:35 PM (EST)
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There is no point in being a psychoanalyst when you have a patient who is unreachable. There is no point in being a Senator when you have a president who is unreachable. So, how do we reach President Bush? How can we stop him? Who can stop him? Protests are all well and good, but have no effect on this man. We need to do something new and different, like blocking his access to MONEY. Setting limits is the name of the game.
“It is true that we have no assurance that the president would follow any statute that we enact,” Senator Specter said to the press on Thursday, April 27. What are the implications of such a statement? To me it means that Specter understands that Bush has no respect for the law or lawmakers, and no understanding of the Senate. It is clear that he was never disciplined as a child, that he got away with everything, from wetting his bed until he was 11 to setting fires until he was 14 (two things told to me in private after the book came out and that I never before mentioned in public), to shooting at his siblings with a bee bee gun, to drinking himself into oblivion, to being arrested for DWI, and on and on. He was always rescued by his father, by friends of his father, by his money, by his personal charm (when sober). Now he expects the next president to rescue him from Iraq.
We have a drunk as president, a drunk with a history of being able to do whatever he wants to — with the possible exception of privatizing Social Security (though he is poised to bankrupt it in stead by draining the Treasury). The only way to stop him is with an intervention, just as it is done with alcoholics.
Bush kids around like a fraternity boy with the press corps about Tony Snow while he is simultaneously destroying the future of our nation. The Senate, a deliberative body, has done more drooling than deliberating of late. And it’s time to stop. Congressman Conyers is taking action, as he knows full well that our nation that is at stake — the lives of our fighting men and women, our civil liberties, and our children’s future.
The most important lesson I learned in my psychiatric training was that there is no substitute for “setting limits” — limits on delinquent patients are the pre-requisite for any kind of contact or communication. Without limits, destructive and anti-social behavior thrives. The time is well past for such limits on Bush, and terrible damage has already been done. But with more than two years left to continue on his destructive course, there is still SOME time. People like Senator Byrd now are talking about impeachment. But Bush is too fast for us — he will nuke Iran before any hearings on his high crimes and misdemeanors can take place.
The April march, as it were, is all good and well. But protests don’t mean what they did in the 1960s. They just don’t. It is past time for action, and the action that is necessary IS to take away Bush’s Senate credit card. Specter is right. You can get Bush to say anything, but you can never get him to do what he is supposed to do if he doesn’t want to. It’s really that simple. He needs his access to money taken away. Only then will any discourse with this White House be even remotely possible. The House and Senate, even the media, must push through the shock and awe visited upon them by this delinquent and destructive president.
We are in a new world, as no President has ever so willingly and willfully disregarded the Constitution. Never has anybody taken such advantage of God-fearing Christians in order to prosecute a war. Never before has anybody unilaterally disregarded so many treaties — first global warming and now the Salt Treaty. Bush is cooking up a nuclear test on June 2 in Nevada and nobody in the House or Senate is saying anything. The Democrats are fighting about windmills in Cape Cod while the “down-winders” in Nevada are bracing for new bouts of cancer.
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The Deepest Terror
Posted January 22, 2006 | 07:55 PM (EST)
President Bush wasn’t told about the recent bin Laden tape until after his prepared speech Thursday morning in Virginia. Why? And once informed, he didn’t put us on higher alert. Why? Well, it’s not bin Laden who scares our president. The people who strike fear into the heart of George W. Bush are not terrorists - they are Americans like you and me. He needs to wiretap Americans more than he wants to capture bin Laden or respond to his threats of future domestic attacks.
It has become clear that we Americans have always been the ultimate terrorists as far as he’s concerned - externalized versions of his profound and ever-threatening internal reign of terror. Bush hides in Crawford and in front of pre-selected audiences; he jokes; he dismisses; he exercises; he only holds brief White House meetings; he surrounds himself with layers of yes-men; he ignores the pain of others (read Katrina victims) who remind him of his own denied terror. He used to drink in order to narcotize his persecutors, now he prays in stead.
In the last analysis none of these techniques he uses to rid himself of terror is fully successful. For Bush, that is not possible - no matter how hard he tries. His most consistent effort to repel his inner terror has been to externalize it. He gets the rest of us to feel his fears - the opposite of President Clinton who often said, “I feel your pain.” I maintain that Bush wants to make us afraid, not just to maintain political power, but to keep the bogeymen as far away as possible. Of secondary benefit is becoming the voice of reassurance - Bush urges us to go shopping, to continue to travel as before. No longer the bounty hunter out to get bin Ladin dead or alive, Bush tells us that he rarely even thinks about him.
When bin Laden’s new tape hit the world on Thursday morning, the audience at Bush’s speech in Virginia knew about it before he did. After all, they probably watched CNN before entering his bubble. Interestingly, that particular bubble was rigged to look like a boxing ring where he was the only fighter, surrounded by cheering throngs (who in fact mostly sat with arms folded in front of them).
Why wasn’t he informed of the new tape right away? I think it is because the Secret Service and the CIA and the State Department and all the president’s men and women knew that he would be enraged. After all, he is the one who should control the terror. He is the one who is supposed to make us afraid, not bin Laden. Whenever he has been afraid in the past he’s fled - that shameful flight he took on 9/11 became the new signal for his aides never to tell him about a disaster. Remember Bush was allowed to continue bicycling while the White House - including his wife - was being evacuated when a plane mistakenly flew over restricted air space. By then it was clear to his staff that Bush’s fundamental personal goal was to manage his own anxiety. It’s too simple to say that he prefers domestic spying to searching for bin Laden; he prefers domestic spying because he has no psychological choice.
And how did we, the people whom he is sworn to protect, become his deepest fear? Bush took over the White House under questionable circumstances. While he got the go-ahead from the Supreme Court to become President, he got a secondary message that he could continue to live outside and above the law - that the court would protect him. But protect him from what? From the American majority that voted for Vice President Gore? After a while, his fears spread even to his own constituents. By the end of 2004, Bush proclaimed that he had plenty of political “capitol to spend.” But underneath that jovial veneer lurked that same plaguing guilt.
Show me a man without guilt and my first reaction is to wonder what happened to it. This is because the unconscious can never be fully free of guilt, even if one has gotten away with murder - remember Lady MacBeth’s “Out out damn spot.” For Bush, that damned spot is us, the American people from whom he cannot escape. He feels both compelled and entitled to know what we are thinking and talking about. The American people have finally replaced his political opponents, Saddam Hussein, and even Osama bin Laden, to become his ultimate bogeyman. At the end of the day the question is bogeyman, bogeyman - who is the bogeyman? And in the meantime, while the President is guarding against imaginary enemies, who is going to lead America against the real enemies that face us?
This is just what Bush/Cheney & Co. did before the Iraq War—They went to the UN and said “Give us a war, or we’ll give you a war anyway.” THE WORLD HAS GOT TO STAND UP THIS TIME and SAY NO….
Insanity defense for Bush et al???
No way.
Might as well have an “evil defense.” It wasn’t his fault; his evilness made him do it.
We need some prosecuter somewhere to sprout a set of cahones and file criminal charges against Bush and all the other SOB’s (Supporters Of Bushism).
And don’t say “It can’t legally be done.”
Here’s a quote from an excellent article on criminal prosecution of a sitting president by
John. H. Kim.
Couldn’t have said it better, myself.
Liberty & Justice,
SJ
www.spartacusjones.com
Nothing in the international law, U.S. Constitution, federal statues or court cases provides
a blanket immunity for an incumbent President or other federal officials from criminal
prosecutions. History and public policy also argue against such an immunity. As the U.S.
Supreme Court pointed out long ago, “no man in this country is so high that he is above
the law….All the officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest, are creatures
of the law, and are bound to obey it.”
It is high time for the American people to uphold
and defend this fundamental principle of equal justice for all, which is one of the most
important American values now ingrained in the
th
Amendment of the Constitution
(“equal protection of the laws”).
The crimes Bush and his gang committed are far more serious than what Nixon or
Clinton did. And yet, both Nixon and Clinton were impeached by the Congress at least.
Unfortunately, in the case of Bush, it seems there is little prospect that he will be
impeached by the Republican-dominated Congress. However, the serious nature of
Bush’s crimes demands a serious prosecution and punishment, not just an impeachment,
if justice is to prevail. Since it is doubtable that the current officials in the Department of
Justice will dare, on their own initiatives, to investigate and prosecute Bush, Cheney,
Rumsfeld, and other high officials involved in the high crimes, it is now up to the “We
the People” to accept the challenge of writing the necessary criminal charges and present
the complaint to the Justice Department, taking it to the court if necessary.
— John H. Kim
APA American Psychological Association
screems 4reform + investigation.
They should be more specific
about mendacious collaboration
as torture advisers. Nasty role
a desecration to the mind.
How can we trust the zillions of therapist
to muzzled us desperate crowd surprised?
with emotion thinking killers
psychotropics designed by ..the ‘pentagon’?
‘the populace’ should expect more
from those we need to trust most.
“apply it to the forhead”
sort of extreme.
Bush has always been psychotic! He talks to God, remember? His nutty political party believed him(? !) and put him in office, for just that reason! Republican are delusional; and so is their president! Where I come from, anybody who talks to God ought to be sipping a thorazine cocktail, and weaving baskets! Instead they gave him control of a super-power! Who’s crazier, Bush or his party?
Surprise, surprise, Bush and Cheney are psychopaths. With Iran, though, I smell a rat; it’s not all Bush and Cheney, Israel is involved too. Israel is and has been playing on Bush’s and the religious right’s rapture fantasies–hey, if you were in Bush’s shoes, wouldn’t you long for the rapture too? For Cheney it’s not the same; Darth Vader has his own agenda. Notice all the secrecy lately about Israel’s incursions into Syria? Something may be brewing underground that we’re not privy to yet, and might very well involve and attack on Iran. Megalomaniacs everywhere run the world, nothing new there.
Hey frank1569, you are so close to the answer. if this was an Easter egg hunt you would be Smoking! Not Colin Powel, he would choose to go down with the ship. Unlike the others Powell would drink his stein of hemlock though, if he had to. Cheney and his little monkey can be forced out with style and sophictication, not a shot fired, barely a word whispered. And, they could be brought before an US court for a long lists of charges. There are people in the government who have the knowledge, authority, and skill to make it happen. Imagine the two nitwits motorcades taking a detour on the way back to the White House, under orders from, ummm a few flag officers? Hit them in the face with the law. They’ll all wake up and we can stop our crying.
My understanding is there are laws in effect whereby all Bushco have to do is start another war, declare a state of emergency and rule happily ever after.
I hope I am wrong. I must be, because why would nobody ever mention this ultimate danger? If I am not, would this possibility not be the supreme cause for impeachment?
If psychosis explains the Bush/Cheney gleeful anticipation of attacking Iran and WWIII, what explains the fact that all Republican presidential candidates (with the exception of Ron Paul)also support it?
Even more remarkable than this collective delusion, is that no one from the media has ever asked any one of these WWIII cheerleaders what the impact might be on the price of a barrel of oil. Or how America might respond to a government that doubled the price paid at the gas pump.