It's time to simply admit the obvious: The president of the United States is crazy as a loon, and the Congress and the media are functioning as co-dependents as he runs the country off a cliff.
Bush says in his latest press conference that he is "certain" that Iran is providing "technically sophisticated" roadside bomb weapons to Iraqi insurgent forces to help them to kill Americans.
He probably is "certain." But nobody else of consequence in the government is, and the evidence to support his claim is simply not there.
Shaped charges are not sophisticated. They can be made in a garage. The technology was invented in 1888 by a Navy engineer. It was widely used in World War I and II, as well as in Vietnam, and was even provided to by the British to the IRA in a botched sting operation that led to its being disseminated around the world to every conceivable resistance and terror organization. Instructions on how to do make these weapons are available on the web. A highschool student could do it in shop if the teacher wasn't looking.
On top of that, the people who are primarily responsible for killing Americans in Iraq are Sunnis, who are certainly not the beneficiaries of Iranian government assistance, since Sunnis are killing Shias, who are the ones that Iran is close to.
None of this matters to Bush.
Why? Because he's crazy. Reality and Bush are wholly different worlds, people.
When you have a person who's off his nut in a position of authority, whether it is in your house, in your office, driving a car or running your country, you need to do something to prevent them from causing harm. It won't do to say, "It's too much trouble to confront him," or "He'll get angry if I challenge him."
This seems to be the attitude in Congress and the media. The Democrats, who could put the president in a richly deserved straight jacket, are afraid to take that step. The media are afraid the president and his crazy backers would howl if they pointed out how nutty he has become.
So they all let him rant on, as though he were making sense.
The problem is that this president is also the commander in chief. He has ordered three heavily armed (and nuclear-equipped) carrier battle groups to the Persian Gulf and is talking about "dealing" with Iran. We all know what that means. He wants to attack Iran and expand his disastrous war in the Middle East to put us at war with another 70 million people.
Experts are saying we can expect this to happen in mid March or April! They say this even though there are no facts that could justify such a criminal act.
But facts don't matter to this megalomaniac.
Co-dependency is a condition where people associated with a sick person enable that person to ruin not only their own lives, but the lives of others, because of an inability to confront the sick person. It happens in families, and it is happening today to the American nation.
Co-dependency destroys families, and it has the potential now to destroy the lives of thousands of Americans, tens or hundreds of thousands of innocent Iranians, and perhaps America itself.
There is only one proper response to having a lunatic in the White House, and that is to get him out of there, and to prevent him from doing harm to himself and others. What ought to happen is Bush's medical team should have him declared incompetent. Since that is unlikely to happen, we're left with two other alternatives. One would be for the military leadership of the nation to recognize Bush's orders-should he order an attack on Iran-to be contrary to International Law, and to disobey him. That seems unlikely, though it is to be profoundly hoped for.
Dave Lindorff, a columnist for Counterpunch, is author of several recent books ("This Can't Be Happening! Resisting the Disintegration of American Democracy" and "Killing Time: An Investigation into the Death Penalty Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal"). His (more...)
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If I behaved this way at work I would be removed from my office and taken out the door. Who is his doctor? Let's see a report on his mental health. Remember the movie "Overboard" when the husband is acting a bit crazy and his doctor puts him in a straight jacket and then he is taken off the boat? ...........
We cannot have a leader who is endangering us all.
We must also stop funding the military. The military is being funded while our national fund is being robbed.
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Aimee (0 articles, 2 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 100 comments) on Thursday, Feb 15, 2007 at 6:06:39 AM
Bush has not gone crazy. He has been crazy pretty much all of his life. He is a sociopath/psychopath and has been since early childhood. He stuck firecrackers down the throats of frogs and blew them up as a kid. As president of his fraternity at Yale he stuck red hot wire coat hangers up the butts of pledges. A sociopath has no conscience; therefore nothing is beyond his scope of evil, nothing too horrible to contemplate.
The president is required to have a physical every year. Shouldn't the most powerful man in the world also have a mental exam every year? He is too dangerous to remain as president for two more years. The democrats should be focusing on only one thing, getting him and Cheney out of office as quickly as possible.
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Bob Trowbridge (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 70 comments [1 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Thursday, Feb 15, 2007 at 11:01:09 PM
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