Bush Bases Foreign Policy on Delusions

Comment by Larry Ross, May 11, 2006

The mental hospitals have many patients who believe they are in direct contact with God - that God is telling them things and instructing them to take certain actions. When they act out these heavenly delusions and take the action that they think God has instructed them to take, often it involves violence against others. The law then sees these people as a danger to themselves, family and community and has them placed in a hospital for treatment.

When a world leader like George Bush has such delusions, that involve attacking other states without any provocation or excuse, the world is seriously threatened. When the leader's delusion is physically expressed as invasions of Afghanistan, Iraq and perhaps Iran to come, the delusions are widely believed to be based on facts, and therefore justified.

In the White House today, to be nutty is to be normal.

Madness is king and " if you are not with us, you are against us" Bush's enormous propaganda machine, backed by mass media giants, churns out endless reams of propaganda justifying Bush's delusions as perfectly normal and that our great leader is once again showing us his great wisdom in saving us by starting  yet another  " war against terror."

As the mass media dominates the dissemination of information in the U.S., and the Americans are notoriously poorly informed in any case, it's no wonder that the polls show a majority as believing Bush's lies and delusions, and are willing for the U.S. to take military action to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.

The fact that UN inspections show that Iran has no nuclear weapons and is not making any, and the CIA predicts it would takes many years for Iran to make nuclear weapons even if it wanted to, are facts that the American mass media prefer not to report.

So the great majority of Americans just do not know the facts. Instead they accept as fact, the lies, and de;delusions of a fundamentalist ex-alcoholic who cheated his way into the American Presidency in the phoney 2000 and 2004 'elections'.

Like all the court flunkeys and courtiers in the children's story: "The Emperor's New Clothes" none would ever say that the Emperor has no clothes on. Today none of the courtiers will dare to say that "Bush is mad - we should stop him before he destroys the world. Only high level Republican critics and insiders will dare to suggest that something is wrong and a bit fishy about Bush's war policies. But usually the mass media are not interested in them, and if their statements are printed at all, they are usually minimized and buried in small print on back pages.  Then if readers do see them, they can dismiss them as unimportant, as they have been conditioned to do.

Bush believes he is on a divine mission, and so do millions of American Christian Fundamentalists who back his every move and are committed. Whereas the great majority of U.S. liberals are not committed. A good example is the National Democratic Party. Remember them? Long ago they once were in opposition to the Republic Party, but no longer.

The Zionists back him because Israel wants a U.S.-led war against Iran, now that Iraq is defeated. The corporate arms industry back him because it profits from every bomb that is dropped; every bullet that is fired; and many new arms contracts. The military follow Bush because every war means more power and promotions and job security for them.

A large number are just too apathetic to care what's happening, many others fear to express any anti-Bush sentiments.

All these groups think only of short term benefits, not long-term consequences and the very distinct possibility of a general war that becomes nuclear, expands and consumes the world as it quickly morphs into global nuclear war.

Added to the solid mass media support, and millions of dollars worth of lying war propaganda, it's no wonder that religious delusions triumph,  are believed as truth, and are passively followed by the great majority of Americans, shuffling toward a nuclear Armageddon.

 

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George Bush believes he is on a mission from God,
according to the politician Nabil Shaath.
Photograph: Charles Dharapak/AP 

Bush claimed God told him to invade Iraq, Afghanistan: BBC

The series was screened in Britain on October 2005

 

LONDON (AFP) - US President George W. Bush allegedly said God told him to invade Iraq and Afghanistan , a new BBC documentary will reveal, according to details released here.

Bush made the claim when he met Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas and then foreign minister Nabil Shaath in June 2003, the ministers told the documentary series to be broadcast in Britain later this month.

The US leader also told them he had been ordered by God to create a Palestinian state, the ministers said Friday.

Shaath, now the Palestinian information minister, said: " President Bush said to all of us: 'I'm driven with a mission from God.

'God would tell me, 'George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan'.'

"And I did, and then God would tell me, 'George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq...' And I did.

"'And now, again, I feel God's words coming to me, 'Go get the Palestinians their state and get the Israelis their security, and get peace in the Middle East.' And by God I'm gonna do it'," said Shaath.

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See Also :

George Bush: 'God told me to end the tyranny in Iraq'
President told Palestinians God also talked to him about Middle East peace

Ewen MacAskill, October 7, 2005

George Bush has claimed he was on a mission from God when he launched the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, according to a senior Palestinian politician in an interview to be broadcast by the BBC later this month.

Mr Bush revealed the extent of his religious fervour when he met a Palestinian delegation during the Israeli-Palestinian summit at the Egpytian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, four months after the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.

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