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I’ve been pushing the likes of Dan Froomkin to explore Bush’s psychological fragmentation. However, even he doesn’t seem to what to go there. I think that he like most journalists fear the publication of even the suggestion that Bush is psychologically on thin ice. Why, the notion that President might be insane would generate fear among our allies and enemies. People around the world need to believe that the government is run by people who are at the very least sane. They can stupid and incompetent – as the members of this Administration have clearly demonstrated. But, insane – to frightening to contemplate.

However, one person seems to at least suggested that Bush’s psychological condition has reached insanity – Gary Hart. In a recent speech, he suggested that an attack on Iran is in the making and will take place before the November election. Only the insane would contemplate such an attack, particularly given the circumstances and the condition of the US military. If they do launch an attack, then you can be sure that Bush is insane, certifiable.

The Republican Congress has treated Bush like a spoiled child – indulging his every whim. This has to change. Even Republicans are starting to come around to the understanding that their no oversight policy of the Bush Administration has lead to unimaginable disasters both internationally and domestically. This cannot be allowed to continue.

The thinking American public has its own Freedom Agenda and the countdown is equal to the number of days this nimrod has left in office.

The same thing here, even if it is publicly released it will be redacted in the same manner as the 9/11 report.

Obviously, I hope the NIE story gets traction. I just don’t know how much of a smoking gun this video is.

According to The Borgen Project’s website, “A comprehensive U.S. strategy to counter terrorism should include economic policies that encourage development, more open societies, and opportunities for people to improve the lives of their families and to enhance prospects for their children’s future.”

See http://www.borgenproject.org

Remember Plamegate! It’s the metastory, stupid! In that case: Bush lied us into Iraq.

In this case: THE WAR ON TERROR IS BEING BUNGLED BY THE REPUBLICANS AND WE ARE LESS SAFE.

I’m still waiting for a proper answer to the hornet’s nest question….

An airhead is someone who lives in a fog and conflates a lot of different ideas. Bush is an airhead.

Big Papa – I see the problem as even bigger than the one you present.

They did not want to know anything different.

That begs a horrible question.

What is the motivation for intentionally ignoring key intelligence and going to war anyway?

There is no motivation that is reasonable enough to legitamize this type of behaviour.

This goes beyond the sub-par IQ issue. It goes straight to dereliction and negligence in their responsibility to the soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan as well (troops in Afghanistan have to deal with resources poached from them to support the guys in Iraq).

Whatever happened to the “conspiracy” that all this was a cover for Bush leading some old forseen holy war against the Muslims? Those guys seem to have fallen off most of the blog sites. It could be he’s just lining his pocket as well as his coffers.

God had nothing to do with this.

The difference is that when Andrea Yates claimed God told her to sacrifice her kids – the citizens of the U.S. – specifically Texas – had to decide between jail or an insane asylum to treat an apparently very aggressive case of post partum depression.

I think the citizens of the U.S. are slowly starting to come around to see G.W. Bush for what he really is.

#46

Thanks for the kind words.

Evidence of good intelligence is all over the place.

This is a Feb. 2003 report from Judith Miller to PBS (before her troubles began later in 2003 or 2004)

“JIM LEHRER: Judy Miller, welcome.

JUDITH MILLER: Hi. How are you, Jim?

JIM LEHRER: Just fine. What’s the most important thing to come out of the meeting?

JUDITH MILLER: I think what we’ve really seen is the Iraqi opposition finally coming into its own. These people understand that this is the endgame, that this is their moment, that they have to make a cogent, coherent statement, they have to have people believe them, and they have to walk a very fine line between asserting their independence, not being America’s pawns, and yet still not angering the country to which they’re going to owe the liberation of their country.

JIM LEHRER: Have they pretty much accepted the fact that the United States is going to run the country for a while, at least after the removal of Saddam Hussein? Are they accepting that?
JUDITH MILLER: You know, they really haven’t accepted it. And I think the message that has come out of here is that, “You don’t want to do that, America. You don’t want to become the colonial occupiers. You need, from the very beginning, some Iraqi faces to tell other Iraqis who’ve just been liberated that this is not an occupation.”

And they’ve delivered that message very strongly to Zalmay Khalilzad, who is President Bush’s representative who traveled here at great difficulty to kind of reassure the opposition. Now they are telling him privately, not publicly, that America can’t go it alone, that the Iraqi opposition has to be there from the beginning.”

Many of the Republicans, conservatives, right wingers, whatevers try to reduce this to a “Saddam was bad, how can you say removing Saddam was wrong” argument.

This, of course, is a bit of straw-man argument. As you just read, even the guys who wanted Saddam gone where very mindful as to how it should be done.

“Special Representative” to G.W. Bush, Zalmay Khalilzad, was told this in no uncertain terms.

So Bush didn’t read the intelligence reports and he didn’t listen to his “Special Representative,” either.