Criteria For Bush Insanity

Paul Craig Roberts presents some of the reasons why Bush should be judged insane. He makes a convincing case.

But there are other reasons as described under Psychopathology of Bushism on this site.
(1) Religious delusions, (2) Drunk with power and Hubris, (3) Grandiose notions of his own infallibility, (4) A belief in his God-given right to govern and to decide the fate of the rest of the world, (5) Like the Pope, Bush believes he is now infallible.

However, criminally insane leaders have often fooled their people and led them into suicidal and homicidal actions. Hitler is only one example, bringing on World War II and the killing of 50 million people. The German people believed and loved him for it, and followed him and made war for him. But he is often described as an evil, insane dictator. Many other leaders throughout history have led their people into war, killing millions and millions of people. Often they are recorded by history as great heroes and leaders of their people - not insane tyrants.

Bush's insanity increases his sense of certainty and resolve, that he is doing the right thing and that God tells him it is the right thing to do.

Roberts did not discuss a beleaguered leader's magic bullet - that can transform a failed President to a national hero - with poll ratings jumping from 30% to over 60% as he makes new wars popular and a necessity to save the nation from treacherous Iranian terrorists.

The method is called staging a 'False Flag' operation, used since about 1600, to incriminate a chosen enemy. The method is to stage what appears to be a terrorist incident against your own country and people, then blame the chosen enemy to justify making war on them.

This would facilitate everything Bush and his neocons plan to do in the Middle East , restore his popularity, allow new unlimited plundering of the US Treasury, and allow new fascist-type laws that will suppress dissent, and new steps to imprison American opponents and those that would tell the truth.

The mass media will act as cheerleaders and justifiers of each step, as well as suppress dissent and doubt of the 'official' story. Even dissenters and peace people will believe the deception - if they haven't been educated about the 'False Flag' tactic. Many will choose to believe that their leader could not possibly do such a treacherous thing, and will reject any explanation other than what Bush and his neocons supply to their mass media.

Polls show the majority of Americans have been conditioned to accept the official lies that Iran is a threat to the US, just as they accepted Bush's lies that Saddam's Iraq was a threat. They were in favour of military action against Iraq in 2003, and now are already in favour of US military action against Iran.

If the 'False Flag' operation blaming Iran is as much an atrocity as 9/11, or worse, the American people will probably approve the US use of nuclear weapons against Iran by over 50%.

I believe that this method is about the only way Bush could regain popularity and increased domestic momentum and approval for his war and domination insanities in the Middle East . That it could lead to a nuclear world war III and the end of humanity is not an issue that the US media and chosen right-wing pundits will discuss. Bush's "Hubris" has trickled down, seeped into, and infected the American body politic. Thinking seriously about what they are doing and planning to do to others and the logical consequences, "only helps the terrorists" they claim. So the neocons and US media helps make sure that most Americans don't know the truth about the Bush regime, its plans, and the possible, if not probable, consequences.

All the new US pre-emptive nuclear war doctrines and laws have been invented to allow Bush to attack whoever he wants, when he wants, with nuclear weapons. Just as other new laws, allow the Bush regime to kidnap so-called "terrorist suspects" from anywhere in the world, 'rendition' them into secret prisons and torture them, without charges being laid, and without any legal counsel. It is all legal under new fascist-type US laws passed by the US Congress and Senate. They are just as guilty as the Bush regime. There are no 'checks and balances' left in the US .

If people wish to prevent a nuclear holocaust, preserve what's left of democracy and prevent Fascism from taking over with endless new 'wars on terror', then they can take many useful and constructive actions. Research into 'False Flag' operations on this website and the wealth of excellent articles on this subject found through a search on Google. Educate yourself and others. Speak out. Forward this article to others. Help groups in the US who are working very hard to get the truth out and save humanity and our planet. Give financial help to people and organizations working and campaigning for truth, sanity and preservation of our species.

Is President Bush Sane?

By Paul Craig Roberts, ICH, December 2, 2006

Tens of millions of Americans want President George W. Bush to be impeached for the lies and deceit he used to launch an illegal war and for violating his oath of office to uphold the US Constitution. Millions of other Americans want Bush turned over to the war crimes tribunal at the Hague . The true fate that awaits Bush is psychiatric incarceration.

The president of the United States is so deep into denial that he is no longer among the sane.

Delusion still rules Bush three weeks after the American people repudiated him and his catastrophic war in elections that delivered both House and Senate to the Democrats in the hope that control over Congress would give the opposition party the strength to oppose the mad occupant of the White House.

On November 28 Bush insisted that US troops would not be withdrawn from Iraq until he had completed his mission of building a stable Iraqi democracy capable of spreading democratic change in the Middle East.

Bush made this astonishing statement the day after NBC News, a major television network, declared Iraq to be in the midst of a civil war, a judgment with which former Secretary of State Colin Powell concurs.

The same day that Bush reaffirmed his commitment to building a stable Iraqi democracy, a secret US Marine Corps intelligence report was leaked. According to the Washington Post, the report concludes: “the social and political situation has deteriorated to a point that US and Iraqi troops are no longer capable of militarily defeating the insurgency in al-Anbar province.”

The Marine Corps intelligence report says that Al Qaeda is the “dominant organization of influence” in Anbar province, and is more important than local authorities, the Iraqi government and US troops “in its ability to control the day-to-day life of the average Sunni.”

Bush's astonishing determination to deny Iraq reality was made the same day that the US-installed Iraqi prime minister al-Maliki and US puppet King Abdullah II of Jordan abruptly cancelled a meeting with Bush after Bush was already in route to Jordon on Air Force One. Bush could not meet with Maliki in Iraq, because violence in Baghdad is out of control. For security reasons, the US Secret Service would not allow President Bush to go to Iraq, where he is “building a stable democracy.”

Bush made his astonishing statement in the face of news leaks of the Iraq Study Group's call for a withdrawal of all US combat forces from Iraq. The Iraq Study Group is led by Bush family operative James A. Baker, a former White House chief of staff, former Secretary of the Treasury, and former Secretary of State. Baker was tasked by father Bush to save the son. Apparently, son Bush hasn't enough sanity to allow himself to be saved.

Bush's denial of Iraqi reality was made even as one of the most influential Iraqi Shiite leaders, Moqtada al-Sadr, is building an anti-US parliamentary alliance to demand the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq.

Maliki himself appears on the verge of desertion by his American sponsors. The White House has reportedly “lost confidence” in Maliki's “ability to control violence.” Fox “News” disinformation agency immediately began blaming Maliki for the defeat the US has suffered in Iraq. NY governor Pataki told Fox “News” that “Maliki is not doing his job.” Pataki claimed that US troops were doing “a great job.”

A number of other politicians and talking heads joined in the scapegoating of Maliki. No one explained how Maliki can be expected to save Iraq when US troops cannot provide enough security for the Iraqi government to go outside the heavily fortified “green zone” that occupies a small area of Baghdad. If the US Marines cannot control Anbar province, what chance is there for Maliki? What can Maliki do if the security provided by US troops is so bad that the President of the US cannot even visit the country?

The only people in Iraq who are safe belong to Al Qaeda and the Sunni insurgents or are Shiite militia leaders such as al-Sadr.

An American group, the Center for Constitutional Rights, has filed war crimes charges in Germany against former US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. A number of former US attorneys believe President Bush and Vice President Cheney deserve the same.

Bush has destroyed the entire social, political, and economic fabric of Iraq. Saddam Hussein sat on the lid of Pandora's Box of sectarian antagonisms, but Bush has opened the lid. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians have been killed as “collateral damage” in Bush's war to bring “stable democracy” to Iraq. Tens of thousands of Iraqi children have been orphaned and maimed. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have fled their country. The Middle East is aflame with hatred of America, and the ground is shaking under the feet of American puppet governments in the Middle East. US casualties (killed and wounded) number 25,000.

And Bush has not had enough!

What better proof of Bush's insanity could there be?