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Resistance See other Resistance Articles Title: U.S. Institutions, Press Ask: Is President Bush Nuts? by Jeffrey Steinberg An Establishment consensus is rapidly emerging over the ever-more obvious lunacy of President George W. Bush, and the strategic implications of allowing a man with long-term and severe psychiatric disorders to remain in the Presidency during a period of systemic financial disintegration, which is driving some leading synarchist bankers to push for World War III—using mad George as their patsy. Indicative of the emerging Anglo-American consensus that Bush is too far gone to serve much longer, is British Prime Minister Tony Blair's own "Damascus Road" break with G.W., since his last visit to Washington in the late Spring. While vacationing in the Caribbean in early August, Blair, according to British sources, allowed Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott to tell a group of Labour MPs that Bush's handling of the Middle East crisis was "crap." Prescott's comment was quickly leaked to all of the leading British dailies, triggering a public debate, and reports that Blair had encouraged his deputy to signal London's break with George Bush's and Dick Cheney's Washington. In a series of high-visibility television news broadcasts and opinion pieces appearing in the U.S. over the past two weeks, a clear message has been conveyed: The President is mentally incompetent to serve out the remaining months of his term of office, and the sociopathic Vice President Cheney is going to have to go, as part of a clean sweep of the White House. Precisely how this clean-out is going to occur is by no means settled. But the verdict has been delivered, loud and clear, and a lively public debate has been stoked, through the medium of some popular news/entertainment programs, including MSNBC's "Scarborough Country," Comedy Central's "The Daily Show"—and even the formerly slavishly pro-Bush Washington Post. The most dramatic sign of the Establishment's conclusion that Bush is too lunatic to continue in office came on Aug. 15, when former Republican Congressman-turned-right-wing-TV news analyst Joe Scarborough aired a ten-minute segment of his "Scarborough Country," posing the question: "Is Bush an Idiot?" Throughout the segment, the words "Is Bush an Idiot?" ran across the bottom of the screen. The segment provoked a firestorm of media commentaries, including two subsequent "Scarborough Country" segments, an equal number of satirical assaults on President Bush's mental midgetry by Comedy Central's Jon Stewart, and a detailed news account in the Aug. 20 Sunday Washington Post of the conservative revolt against the Idiot-in-Chief. Equally distressing for the White House is a series of op-ed pieces by previously loyal conservative pundits, including George Will and National Review editor Rich Lowry, all declaring that Bush's Iraq misadventure has been a dismal failure. A senior U.S. intelligence figure described the situation in Washington as "chaos—the worst chaos I have ever seen." He confirmed earlier reports that former President George H.W. Bush is apoplectic over his son's descent into messianic madness, and that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is so isolated from the White House, that she is not even consulting with the President as she attempts to find a replacement Deputy Secretary of State, to fill the vacancy left by Robert Zoellick's sudden departure in June. When Rice attempted to appoint top aide Nick Burns as Zoellick's replacement, she was blocked by Vice President Cheney, and George W. Bush did not weigh in to support her. It is no secret that Cheney, the leading synarchist bankers' asset in the Administration, is pressing for a resumption of Israel's military actions against Lebanon, and an expansion of the Israeli aggression into Syria—this, despite the fact that Israel's mid-July invasion of Lebanon failed to destroy or even militarily weaken Hezbollah. The renewed Israeli military operations would be, for Cheney, a prelude to a full-scale U.S. bombing campaign against Iran, perhaps before the November U.S. mid-term elections. Sources have confirmed that the Joint Chiefs of Staff have unanimously informed the President that, under no circumstances would they support military action against Iran. "There is no military option against Iran," the Chiefs informed the President, according to several well-placed military and intelligence sources, who spoke to EIR on condition of anonymity. Yet, a number of senior policy analysts freely admitted that they could not say with any degree of certainty that the unanimous view of the JCS will carry any weight at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Between Cheney's commitment to regime change in Tehran before January 2009, and Bush's psychotic refusal to entertain any "bad news" assessments, the U.S. could race, flight-forward, into a pre-emptive war against Iran, in much the same way that Israel raced blindly into its greatest military fiasco ever, in Lebanon. Sane voices in the Israeli military had warned, repeatedly, that a military strike against Hezbollah's asymmetric war-fighting capability would end in dismal failure. Those voices were ignored—largely due to pressure on the Olmert government from the Cheney circles in Washington. World War III It is this prospect, of a mad-hatter President and his Vice Presidential accomplice bringing the United States to the brink of self-destruction, that has triggered the institutional revolt. The Scarborough, Stewart, and related assaults on the President's lunacy are merely manifestations of a much deeper, behind-the-scenes process of debate, among senior Establishment figures, over how to deal with a dysfunctional White House, during a period of the greatest combined political and financial crisis in the nation's history. While sense perception might suggest that the television assaults on the President's mental state have triggered the institutional debate, the exact opposite is true. The American public, already sickened by the Administration's bungling, treachery, tyranny, and worse, is being brought into the top-down deliberations. The simple fact is: Nothing short of a top-to-bottom house cleaning in the Executive branch, starting with Cheney and Bush, is going to save the nation and the world from a New Dark Age of global asymmetric warfare, financial disintegration, and the collapse of the sovereign nation-state system itself. If Bush and Cheney do launch a war against Iran, the outcome will be even more disastrous for the United States than the recent Israeli misadventure in Lebanon was for the Jewish state. If George W. Bush were looking for a shortcut to infamy, he could not choose a faster route than a bombing campaign against Iran. Perhaps the President will find a few strands of sanity, tied to his deep fear of failure, and will pull back from the brink. For the U.S. institutions to risk the fate of the nation on such a slender reed would be madness in its own right.
Poster Comment: Remember, folks, you heard it here on 4um first, from yours truly. Bush and Cheney are finished and it's simply a matter of how they will be removed from office.
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Excellent article, but I would take the prediction of a coup with a grain of salt. Bush will serve out his term, and our only real hope is that he can be reined in as he becomes increasingly desperate...
the law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal bread.
I maintained after the last election that Bush/Cheney would be targeted for impeachment and removal by the behind scenes power structures of the Beltway. I miscalculated the time frame. But DC faces a very real crisis of legitmacy that may call for the blood of a President as payment. You can't launch a war based on obvious lies (that implicates everyone in the Beltway) that has turned into a total disaster, that has ruined the rep of the US on the international scene and threatens sea changes in long established power relationships unfavorable to the United States and just walk away from it. A good portion of the country is waking up to the two party fraud as the "oppossition" to Bush thus far has been feeble to say the least. The Beltway is going to lose control if they don't offer up a sacrifice (like they did with Nixon). If Bush and Cheney are to go- don't expect it to be over their war crimes or any of their worst offenses. Those involve way to many people in the Beltway. Expect it to be over some petty and minor and quite routine law breaking that our media will turn into a great "constitutional question". And if it happens, it will happen fast. The whole silent sit on hands Beltway controlled media will, on cue, start attacking the President's spokesmen like attack dogs. It will be orchestrated and it will be fast. No time for a drawn out Watergate. From first headline "revealing" the scandal to resignation (they will resign- not be impeached and removed) it will be no more than six months.
In your guts, you know he's nuts.
"I woke up in the CRAZY HOUSE."
For a long time, Doug Thompson of Capitol Hill Blue was a good source of information on Bush's fragile, disordered mental state---apparently he had an excellent disaffected source on the WH staff. Then sometime earlier this year, IIRC, Doug was "turned"---some article out of the blue denouncing the 9/11 truth movement, I think---and there's been nothing out of him since.
The fat lady hasn't sung yet on PlameGate. But check the source on this article: Larouche! He makes more predictions than Nostradamus.
And he has at least as good a track record, if not better. Go to the EIR website and see for yourself. There is an article I saw about this exact subject. I did not look at it so I'll leave it to you to report back. ;0)
"Never has so much military and economic and diplomatic power been used so ineffectively, and if after all of this time, and all of this sacrifice, and all of this support, there is still no end in sight, then I say the time has come for the American people to turn to new leadership not tied to the mistakes and policies of the past." Richard M. Nixon
There are enough scandals in the pressure cooker right now so it is only a question of which one will cause the pot to blow. It could well be some new scandal which erupts without notice since these slimeballs have more skeletons in their closets than you can shake a stick at. One of them could slip out and cause havoc in short order. It will be interesting to say the least. Can we stand Denny Hastert as the temporary occupant of the Oval Office, or will Cheney go first allowing Bush to appoint someone just as Ford and Rockefeller were with Agnew's and Nixon's departure? Old Denny has some dirt which mars the lustre of his shiny armor so he may not make the perfect stop gap either.
"Never has so much military and economic and diplomatic power been used so ineffectively, and if after all of this time, and all of this sacrifice, and all of this support, there is still no end in sight, then I say the time has come for the American people to turn to new leadership not tied to the mistakes and policies of the past." Richard M. Nixon
Not only is Shrub insane, I believe he is completely possessed by Evil.
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