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I'll have to check on that book, Blanche, thanks. There's no doubt our
dear Dubya has a few issues. Many of the pundits and analysts were openly critical of his devil-may-care attitude at last Monday's press conference, given the seriousness of all the questions, the world's problems. David Gurgen, an analyst that has worked for several administrations of both parties, said it was rather disturbing.
posted by
saul_relative
on August 25, 2006 at 12:09 AM
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Have you heard of or seen the book, "Bush On The Couch", Saul?
I heard the author interviewed on a talk show (Tom Hartman's, I thnk). The author is a psychiatrist, who pretty much claimed what MG, my boyfriend, and I have thought for years, that not only is the president a "white-knuckle" drunk, but has more than a few other disorders. His sister died when he was 7, and no one in their family ever talked about it again, is just one example of how deep the denial runs in the Bush household.
The father complex is probably an encylopedic volume in itself. Just the Newsweek article that I read last week that described GW as peddling a bike on his Crawford ranch around his staffers, enjoining them to join the "100 degree" club by jogging in 100 F heat, while circling them on his bike (due to bad knees), and completely unconcerned by the British terrorist plot, gives me chills. Sociopathology at its finest.
posted by
Blanche.
on August 24, 2006 at 2:37 PM
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It doesn't affect him, Blanche. He does not care. And you're right. He
is a nut. A religious nut with a superiority complex, a low IQ, and control of the most powerful military on the planet. Scary, actually.
posted by
saul_relative
on August 24, 2006 at 2:30 PM
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Saul, I like Colin Powell's pithy assessment: "You break it, you own it".
about Iraq. I'm not sure what shape it was in before the bombing began, due to 10 years of embargoes, but after 3 years of airstrikes, and the civil war, there can't be much left.
As far as lacking personal responsibility or gravits as a president, Bush has not assigned any government agency to even estimate the civilian casualties. I can't imagine that Harry Truman would have done the same in say, Hiroshima. There ought to be at least some token measure of awareness of the number of lives lost, but our Fearless Leader seems more preoccupied with bicycle races in Crawford. He's a nut.
posted by
Blanche.
on August 24, 2006 at 1:36 PM
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Because, this time, Dubya wanted an America, Jr. To do that, you have to
abolish everything having to do with the preexisting regime, according to the Bush Administration. When you allow the breakdown of the infrastructure without adequate plans for replacement, without a police force or army to maintain order (remember, they were abolished), then you have major problems for planned resuscitation. What we did in Iraq, basicly was kill it, drain the body of its fluids and its organs, weakly attempted to patch it all back together, replaced its "brain" with one to our liking, and expected it to live. Instead, it's barely breathing, but the little jolts of "rebuilding efforts", the "unified government", and the replacement organs aren't enough to keep the body from convulsing.
posted by
saul_relative
on August 24, 2006 at 1:32 PM
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I don't understand why we felt obligated to "help rebuild" (i.e. occupy) the country, anyway.
What would have been wrong with simply going in there once a decade, and just sorta "cleaning house"? Assuming, of course, we disapproved of whichever tyrant had filled the leadership vacuum we had previously created.
"I forgot what else I was going to say."
posted by
Mademoiselle
on August 24, 2006 at 12:31 PM
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