Food for thought...
courtesy of: http://www.interventionmag.com/cms/modules...article&sid=772
Some disturbing new accounts of President Bush’s deteriorating mental state are starting to leak out. According to Doug Thompson, Capitol Hill Blue (6/4/04), the word from inside the White House is:
• “… the President goes from quoting the Bible in one breath to obscene tantrums against the media, Democrats and others that he classifies as “enemies of the state.”
• “It reminds me of the Nixon days. Everybody is an enemy; everybody is out to get him. That’s the mood over there.”
• “We seem to spend more time trying to destroy John Kerry than al Qaeda and our enemies list just keeps growing and growing.”
• “…you don’t have to wear a turban or speak Farsi to be an enemy of the United States. All you have to do is disagree with the President.”
Note: This information came from sources in the White House who did not want their careers destroyed by the Bush Attack Machine—so they remain anonymous. Their revelations, though, ring true to many Bush watchers—especially psychiatrists and professionals familiar with substance abuse.
• “George W. Bush manifests all the classic patterns of what alcoholics in recovery call 'the dry drunk'. His behavior is consistent with barely noticeable but meaningful brain damage brought on by years of heavy drinking and possible cocaine use.”-- Professor Katherine van Wormer, author of Addiction Treatment, quoted in Counterpunch, 10/11/02
• “[Bush] hated his father for putting his whole life in the shade and for emotionally blackmailing him. He hated his mother for physically and mentally badgering him to fulfil her wishes. …his unconscious hatred for them was channelled into a fanatical moral crusade to rid the world of evil”-- Oliver James, psychologist, The Guardian, 9/2/03
• “Bush has lost his grip on reality. He is paranoid. He's obsessed with Saddam Hussein and Iraq.”-- David Thompson, The News Insider, 3/14/03
• “The poor guy is obviously dyslexic, and dyslexic to the point of near-illiteracy.”-- Reporter Christopher Hitchens who has taught dyslexic students, Nation, 10/8/00 (Bush denies this possibility, even though his brother, Neil, is dyslexic.)
• “George W. Bush seems to possess the traits characteristic of addictive persons who still have the thought patterns that accompany substance abuse.”-- Carol Wolman, M.D., psychiatrist, quoted in Counterpunch. 10/2/02
It seems everybody has an opinion about Bush; ranging from he’s a complete idiot to he is a diabolical genius, playing the fool as he conquers the world. Bush is one thing for sure—he is a fanatic.
• “A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.”-- Winston Churchill
• “When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do sir?”-- J. Maynard Keynes (1883-1946), British economist
• “I'm not going to change, see? I'm not trying to accommodate. I won't change my philosophy or my point of view.”-- Bush to Tim Russert on “Meet the Press”, quoted by William Saletan, Slate, 2/8/04
• “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.”-- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), Welsh philosopher and reformer
• “I know what I believe. I will continue to articulate what I believe and what I believe -- I believe what I believe is right.”--George W. Bush, defending his beliefs, 7/22/01, quoted in "The Complete Bushisms"
• “The true fanatic is a theocrat, someone who sees himself as acting on behalf of some superpersonal force: the Race, the Party, History, the proletariat, the Poor, and so on. These absolve him from evil, hence he may safely do anything in their service.”-- Lloyd Billingsley, "Religion's Rebel Son: Fanaticism in Our Time", Multnomah Publishers (1986)
• “If Bush stands with God, those who actively oppose his war must be down below with Satan… Such a spiritual man would never send others to their death for crass motives like power and oil. Surely, he must have higher ethical principles in view.”-- Ira Chernus, CommonDreams.org, 3/10/03
Whatever Bush’s problems are, they have become our problem. Our government was established with checks and balances, so one insane man could not do great harm to our country; but the system has broken down. Congress failed in its duty to stop Bush, and we now find ourselves bogged down in two wars, deeply in debt, with Big Brother looking over our shoulder.
Congress needs to find out if there is any truth in the recent reports of Bush’s bizarre behavior. We need to know if the world’s most powerful man is “losing it”. As someone once said, “We cannot wait for the final proof that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.”
Mick Youther is retired and living in a bunker in an undisclosed location until Bu$hCo is gone. You can email your comments to Mick@interventionmag.com