Psychopathology of Bushism

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  Will Americans Wake Up In Time?
Comment by Larry Ross
January 2 , 2007

.... Parry's article below reports that the Bush regime is planning to go ahead with its expansion of the Iraq  war, and by nuclear bombing Iran. This parallels many other articles on this site which say the same thing. All predict very, very serious consequences in many areas.
Parry also predicts there will be "some provocation that can be blamed on Syria and Iran , thus justifying the expanded war."
My own prediction is that the "provocation" referred to by Parry, will be a vitally important False Flag operation. It would be very carefully planned by the Bush Administration to stage some kind of an attack, perhaps a terrorist attack on the US, like 9/11, for which the Bush Regime has planned to blame Iran. ...

  Bush Could Usher in a Very Dangerous New Year
by Robert Parry,
December 26, 2006

Intelligence sources say President Bush -- along with Israel's Ehud Olmert and the UK's Tony Blair -- are weighing the possibility of Israeli-led attacks on Syria and Iran in early 2007, with the United States providing logistical back-up.

   
   
  Another Astute US Author Predicts US War On Iran
Comment by Larry Ross
December 28, 2006

While brilliant and very worthwhile, Marjorie Cohn also neglects to mention the techniques and circumstances the Bush regime may use to start a war with Iran with US public support.  
The result of this kind of failure by many US journalists is a people that will be fooled by a US 'False Flag' against Iran. They will then support a war on Iran because of what they have been fooled into thinking that Iran has done. It is a story of how rational intelligent thinking people can discount and/or dismiss the idea of official chicanery, even though various US Governments and their agencies have a long history of committing various nefarious schemes against other countries and governments.

  "What's Going On?" A Vietnam-Era Song Rings True Today
by Marjorie Cohn, AlterNet
December 28, 2006

In 1971, singer Marvin Gaye raised hackles when he tried to make sense of the madness of the Vietnam War by asking, "What's Going On?" ....
The song, told from the perspective of a returning Vietnam veteran, was inspired by Gaye's brother who had recently returned from that disastrous war.

...."The deaths of American soldiers now verges on the criminal."

   
   
  Salvador Option Designed to Save US
Comment by Larry Ross
December 25, 2006

There was no civil war in Iraq before.  But by using what is known as "The Salvador Option" (described below by James Brook) the US rapidly turned their illegal war on Iraq  into the civil war it is today.
The technique, used many times by the US before, particularly in South America , involves employing death squads to masquerade as the militia of the dominant faction, or as police under the direction of that faction, and murder assigned targets on the victim side.

  Talking surge
by James Brooks
December 20, 2006

‘Everyone in town is talking “surge” now,’ a Pentagon adviser explained to NPR listeners the other day, and you could almost feel the country buckle up its mind for another bloody disaster ahead. One big “final” push to defeat the popular resistance of the Iraqi people. Just to see if we can do it, before we leave. It probably won’t work, but it’s worth a try.’

   
   
  Brilliant Analysis of War Misses Key Factor
Comment by Larry Ross
December 23, 2006

David Corn's brilliant analysis of the Iraq war and Bush's reactions are scary as he says. Bush plans to sweep aside all expert advice and escalate the war with more troops (he invented a new term for escalating the war. He calls it a 'surge' tactic). He will also likely intensify US bombing of Iraq. However Corn does not mention that Bush may also use a ‘False Flag' attack on the US and blame Iran, then use that as his justification to both escalate the Iraq war, use nuclear weapons on Iran, and introduce fascist-type legislation in the US. This possibility has been mentioned extensively in other writings on this site.

  Bush, Asleep In The Bunker
by David Corn
December 20, 2006

This is scary. The president of the United States of America has created a hellish disaster that has resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians and thousands of American soldiers, and he's resting well. The vice president believes that the man responsible for three of the greatest military blunders in U.S. history (attacking Iraq without devising a strategy for securing the country after the invasion; dissolving the Iraqi army, creating armed and trained recruits for the incipient insurgency; and mounting an extensive de-Baathification campaign that destroyed the governing infrastructure of the nation) did his job well.

   
   
  Left Behind Game Justifies Killing for Christ
Comment by Larry Ross
December 23, 2006

This video game equates killing unbelievers with Christian morality and teachings. The game implies that it is virtuous, Christian, ethical and spiritual to vaporize in a puff of smoke anyone who does not share the destructive religious delusions of far right Fundamentalist Christians. Fundamentalists claim they are reaching out in a spirit of love to the unbelievers, so that unbelievers have a chance to convert to the one true faith, rather than be 'left behind' in the great rapture of true believers to Heaven.

  'Christian' Game Leaves Behind A Pile of Corpses
by Matt Taibbi
December 20, 2006

Left Behind: Eternal Forces allows you to command the tribulation force, uncover the truth about worldwide disappearances, and save as many people as possible from the antichrist.

   
   
  Americans Conditioned For War
Comment by Larry Ross
December 22, 2006

Americans have had four years of unjustified, illegal war for no legitimate reason or excuse. Constantly they have been bombarded by a litany of lies, war propaganda, and pro-war commentators, and democratic politicians repeating these lies.
War is the new neocon -generated reality for many Americans.

  Military Escalation: Bush Can't Kick the Habit
by Robert Scheer
December 21, 2006

The Bush Administration is hooked on the drug of military might, with Gates calling for sending more troops to a war we can't win. Here we go again: A new secretary of defense and yet another call for ending the war in Iraq by escalating it. What are they smoking in the Bush White House?

   
   
  Bush Empire Built on Aggression
Comment by Larry Ross
December 20, 2006

Even before he was elected in 2000, Bush and his neocons were planning wars of aggression based on lies.
However, as Bush and his collaborators are the most powerful regime in the world, it's unlikely he will ever be prosecuted by the World Court, or impeached for crimes against the US Constitution by a US court. Bush has openly sneered at international law and discarded or ignored all international treaties that interfere with his illegal wars and nuclear armaments objectives.

  War of Aggression
from Wikipedia

The crime of a war of aggression is listed in Article 5.1 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (RSICC) as one of the four most serious crimes of concern to the international community, and that it falls within the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC). It was addressed earlier by the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg following World War II , which called the waging of aggressive war "essentially an evil thing...to initiate a war of aggression...is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole."

   
   
  Bush's Grandiose Religious Delusions
Comment by Larry Ross
December 15, 2006

On a hunch I Googled "Bush religious delusions" and struck a gold mine of over a million articles. I hope others in addition to myself have the time and interest to brose and research this material. More specialist searching may reveal even more. It looks very promising. There may be valuable theories to explain Bush's messianic and destructive behaviour as he leads the world toward the brink. Good hunting.

   
   
  Comment

by Larry Ross

December 14, 2006

George Monbiot describes "total sensory deprivation" a US technique of torture that often makes prisoners like Jose Padilla lose their minds. Jose Padilla, a US  citizen detained as an "enemy combatant" and suspected of planning to detonate a dirty bomb, was imprisoned for 3 years without any charge being laid against him. He was subjected to "total sensory deprivation”. Now...."his mind is no longer there" Monbiot wrote.
...Remember, with pre-emptive nuclear war millions can be killed in hours. The world, if it continues, will be irreparably damaged for all the time that remains.

  Routine and systematic torture is at the heart of America's "war on terror"
by George Monbiot
December 12, 2006

In the fight against cruelty, barbarism and extremism, America has embraced the very evils it claims to confront.
After thousands of years of practice, you might have imagined that every possible means of inflicting pain had already been devised. But you should never underestimate the human capacity for invention. United States interrogators, we now discover, have found a new way of destroying a human being.

   
   
  Hitler's Lesson Ignored Again?
Comment by Larry Ross
December 14, 2006

I repeat this quote from Adolph Hitler because it seems so relevant to the tactics today of the Bush Administration. The reactions of people are much the same. It's as if nothing was learned since the Hitlerian techniques were successfully used on the German people. Why?  They may be fooled again, particularly if Bush and co unleash a 'False Flag' op, followed up with a well-planned campaign of lies, blame, pro-war propaganda and war on the accused, for the phoney alleged "False Flag" terrorist attack on the US. 

   
   
  Listing Fascist Trends in the USA
Comment by Larry Ross
December 14, 2006

Chris Floyd has written one of the great papers of our age. In a few pages he expresses the steps in the decline of US Constitutional Law; the US rise of fascist-type legislation; and why we should not expect much improvement from the new 'democratically-controlled' Senate and Congress.
I'll add a few thoughts to Floyd's brilliant analysis.

  Presidential Tyranny Untamed by Election Defeat
by Chris Floyd
December 12, 2006

.... We have seen the proof of this in our time. When law - understood here as agreed-upon principles of justice and commonweal - is treated as a filthy rag or a "quaint" relic or a cynical sham by those in power, the result is an ever-growing suppuration of greed, lies, brutality and violence.

   
   
  Criteria For Bush Insanity
Comment by Larry Ross
December 4, 2006

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.

  Is President Bush Sane?
by Paul Craig Roberts
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.

   
   
  Torture Becoming A Part of the American Way
Comment by Larry Ross
November 15, 2006

A few weeks ago Congress passed laws which legalised the U.S. use of torture on so-called terrorism suspects At first there was some debate and resistance to Bush's torture bill. But the Senate and Congress quickly caved in and gave Bush what he wanted. Now torture is legal. For the time being it is mainly kept secret and done by U.S.-sponsored dictatorships, or client regimes in other countries. Main stream U.S. media carefully avoid the subject so a lot of Americans don't know how much about it. The following article shows how torture is becoming incorporated into American life. It is a reflection of the psychopathology of George Bush. As long as Bush remains in office, we can expect a growth in this foul and degrading practice.

  'Torture Taxis' Make Regular Stops in Las Vegas
By George Knapp
November 10, 2006

Is torture an acceptable tactic to use in the war against terror?
The Bush Administration recently acknowledged that some forms of coercion are being used by American agents against suspected terrorists. But human rights advocates say the U.S. is actively supporting the use of more extreme techniques. And the people who are involved are making regular visits to Las Vegas.

   
   
  The Rise of Right Wing Religion in the U.S.
Comment by Larry Ross
November 14, 2006

This review of 'WITH GOD ON OUR SIDE was on an Amazon list of books and films offered for sale. It was one of the 3 million articles available from a Google search of 'MORGAN REYNOLDS'. Morgan worked most of his life in Washington and occupied many government positions. He is also professor emeritus of Texas University. He has researched and written extensively on 9/11 questions. I think most people would judge it very worthwhile if they Googled 'MORGAN REYNOLDS' and read some of his work. The power and ascendancy of the Fundamentalist Right, documented in the book reviewed below, will be of interest to those wishing to preserve our religious freedoms.

  FAHRENHEIT 9/11 to the "Christian" Right
Reviewed by mr. snrub
January 19, 2006

WITH GOD ON OUR SIDE is as invaluable a documentary as FAHRENHEIT 9/11 or BUSH FAMILY FORTUNES: THE BEST DEMOCRACY MONEY CAN BUY

   
   
  Preparations For War On Iran
Comment by Larry Ross
November 12, 2006

....The U.S. Democrats who have just won in Congress and the Senate are unlikely to stop this war as they are deeply involved in approving the Iraq war, and either repeating or not questioning Bush lies to justify it. They are doing the same thing about the new U.S. enemy - Iran . They have also approved Bush's new nuclear doctrines, his patriot laws, his preparations for the Iran war and given him virtually unlimited power. The Democrats have proved themselves to be a weak, lily-livered and wishy-washy opposition party unwilling and unable to speak the truth about the Bush Administration and the illegal wars. There are a few exceptional and honest Democratic politicians who oppose U.S. war policies, but not enough to make much difference.

  Unleashing Armageddon in the Middle East
By Dr. Elias Akleh
November 11, 2006

In mid 1970s the American Power Elite drew a “Grand Plan” to control and to monopolize global oil and nuclear energy resources, for he who controls energy resources determines the fate of nations. The base of this “Grand Plan” is the invasion of energy rich countries to directly control their resources, and to create subservient governments that would exploit their own people as cheap labor to harvest energy for the United States.
The collapse of the Soviet Union had created a window of opportunity for the United States to ensure and to affirm its global superiority through expansion and controlling energy resources without any real opposition. The attacks of 911 were necessary requirements for the Bush administration to wage a “global war against terror” that would serve as a cover up for American hegemony. President Bush borrowed Mussolini's fascist motto of “If you are not with me, you are against me” and turned it into “You are either with us or with the terrorist” to terrorize weaker nations into accepting American expansions.

   
   
  History of US-Korea Relations on Nuclear Issues
Comment by Larry Ross
November 6, 2006

. . .Today North Korea is presented by the media and official US and allied statements, as a great threat to global security. The media don't mention the US policies which threatened North Korea , North Korea 's previous attempts to make a secure peace which were rejected by the US , all or which finally caused it to go nuclear.   The majority of Americans support Bush's classifications and definitions of North Korea as a nuclear threat.  Because the US media are basically performing a war propaganda role for the Bush Administration, rather than the truth of the situation, the US public has been prepared and conditioned for war. The majority accepts and supports possible US military action against North Korea . To a lesser degree this also applies to the media and publics in US-allied nations.

  Bush's Tough-Talkin' Korean Bungle
By Robert Parry
November 5, 2006

. . . In his first weeks in office, Bush cast aside the Clinton administration's delicate negotiations that had hemmed in North Korea's nuclear ambitions. The new president then brushed aside worries of Secretary of State Colin Powell and South Korean President Kim Dae Jung about dangerous consequences from a confrontation.

   
   
  Nuclear Doctrines Threaten Humanity
Comment by Larry Ross
November 1, 2006

This is one of the most important papers we have ever re-printed, by a world authority on U.S. nuclear war policies, and U.S. plans to wage nuclear war on Iran . Michel Chossudovsky details the various nuclear war doctrines that are an integral part of Pentagon military options. No longer do the U.S. military consider nuclear weapons 'a weapon of last resort', likely to lead to escalation and an end to humanity.
Today they literally, have learned to 'love the bomb' and have radically changed past perceptions so that nuclear weapons have become just one of a number of military options military commanders may use in various battle situations. They allow the U.S. to suddenly launch a preemptive nuclear strike against a chosen enemy. The enemy may be non-nuclear or nuclear. Also, they claim the right to introduce nuclear weapons use into conventional military conflicts.

 

Is the Bush Administration Planning a Nuclear Holocaust?

by Michel Chossudovsky
February 22, 2006

Will the US launch "Mini-nukes" against Iran in Retaliation for Tehran's "Non-compliance"?
At no point since the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945, has humanity been closer to the unthinkable, a nuclear holocaust which could potentially spread, in terms of radioactive fallout,  over a large part of the Middle East.
All the safeguards of the Cold War era, which categorized the nuclear bomb as "a weapon of last resort" have been scrapped. "Offensive" military actions using nuclear warheads are now described as acts of "self-defense".

   
   
  U.S. Nuclear Attack on Iran Could Be Close
Comment by Larry Ross
October 23, 2006

Google's 9 million articles provide greater evidence that a U.S. attack on Iran, perhaps launched before the U.S. elections on  Nov 7 in order to boost Bush and Republican popularity, is close.     Try the Google search yourself on "Nuclear Attack On Iran"

   
   
  U.S. Global Domination Of Space
Comment by Larry Ross
October 21, 2006

It is likely Bush regime lunatics will soon start what may expand to be Humanity's final war - a war on Iran . They will likely stage a "False Flag" attack on the U.S. and blame Iran . People have been conditioned to hate and fear Iran and believe lies that support and deepen that hate. Proofs to the contrary are simply dismissed as pro-Iranian or pro-terrorist propaganda.

 

Bush Signs New Policy Edict Calling For U.S. Control of Space:

Foreign Press Foundation, Europe
October 20, 2006

The World is Not Enough, So Now U.S. Intends To Usurp Space
After US President George W. Bush signed away more basic human rights through his draconian Military Commissions Act Of 2006, he moved on this week to signing another unbelievable law: this time claiming outer space for the US, to be enforced by a new military service, the "U.S. Space Forces." And once again, his notion of US "diplomacy" is to order other nations to support this hegemonic US policy, or else.

   
   
  GROWING GLOBAL MADNESS FUELED BY AN INSANE US CABAL:
by Dr Richard Franklin
October 19, 2006

NEOCONS BACK IN THE SADDLE AGAIN
I've often altered a famous line of Ralph Waldo Emerson, rendering it as, "Mad men are in the saddle and ride mankind." In that Emersonian context,
Canadian Professor Michel Chossudovsky, who is one of the world's premier journalists on geostrategic military matters, has written a carefully-researched article that will make your hair stand on end.
Dr. Chossudovsky tells us, "The world is at the crossroads of the most serious crisis in modern history." At first glance, that resonates like the muckraking headline on a copy of the National Enquirer, but this article is neither tabloid sensationalism nor a fabrication. It's an exposition of numerous hard realities that the world is now facing.

   
   
  Sent by Evan Augustine Peterson III - October 21, 2006
 

The Day After Pat's Birthday: A Plea To Speak Up For Democracy

By Kevin Tillman
October 19, 2006

It will be Pat's birthday on November 6, and the mid-term elections are one day later. That gets me thinking about a conversation I had with Pat before we joined the military. He spoke about the risks that come with signing the pap ers. How once we were committed, we would be at the mercy of the American leadership and the American people. How we could be thrown in a direction not of our volition. How fighting as a soldier would leave us without a voice … until we get out. Much has happened since we handed over our voice:

 

Is War with Iran the October Surprise?

By Captain Eric H. May
October 17, 2006

Polls as Prologue
According to current polls, if the mid-term elections were held today, President George W. Bush and his Republican Party would lose badly . He would then face an opposition Congress in 2007, one bound and determined to reassert its oversight duties. Investigations, an inevitability, could easily lead to his impeachment , and in that event the two-thirds of the United States who don't trust him could ask troubling questions about his presidency, all the way back to the still-murky events of 9/11.

   
   
  Ideology of Genocide
Comment by Larry Ross
October 14, 2006

The planned mass killing of Iraqis by the Bush regime will probably get much worse and spread much further than Iraq's 650,000 victims, currently calculated by the John Hopkins survey. To facilitate and legalize the coming genocides, the Bush regime created new nuclear doctrines allowing the President to wage pre-emptive nuclear war and introduce nuclear weapons use into conventional conflicts. These were made law by the U.S. Senate. To gain public acceptance they were treated as an unimportant, normal development by the mass media in the U.S. and in other countries, such as New Zealand.

 

CAN WE CALL IT GENOCIDE NOW? - "YOU'RE EITHER WITH US OR YOU'RE DEAD"

by Paul Craig Roberts
October 11, 2006

When does "collateral damage" so dwarf combatant deaths that war becomes genocide?

 

BUSH'S NUCLEAR APOCALYPSE

by Chris Hedges
October 11, 2006

The aircraft carrier Eisenhower, accompanied by the guided-missile cruiser USS Anzio, the guided-missile destroyer USS Ramage, the guided-missile destroyer USS Mason, and the fast-attack submarine USS Newport News, is--as I write--making its way to the Straits of Hormuz off Iran. These ships will be in place to strike Iran by the end of the month. It may be a bluff. It may be a feint. It may be a simple show of American power. But I doubt it.

   
   
  U.S. Attack on Iran
Comment by Larry Ross
October 11, 2006

. . . For example they could;
1.  accept an offer of enriched uranium from another source, to allay the false and groundless suspicions the U.S. has engendered in the world community.
2. They could offer to allow more inspections of Iran by the international community, in order to show that everything Iran had said was true.
3. Another even more dramatic policy step would be for Iran to announce it will officially recognise the reality of Israel's continued existence and will work with all nations to make a peaceful, secure middle east etc.

 

Does Bush Think War with Iran Is Preordained?

By Chris Hedges, Truthdig
October 10, 2006

The aircraft carrier Eisenhower, accompanied by the guided-missile cruiser USS Anzio, guided-missile destroyer USS Ramage, guided-missile destroyer USS Mason and the fast-attack submarine USS Newport News, is, as I write, making its way to the Straits of Hormuz off Iran. The ships will be in place to strike Iran by the end of the month. It may be a bluff. It may be a feint. It may be a simple show of American power. But I doubt it.

   
   
  Ambling towards Disaster; Bush's North Korea Policy
By Mike Whitney
October 9, 2006

It took 6 years of relentless threats, sanctions and belligerence, but Bush finally succeeded in pushing Kim Jong-Il to build North Korea's first nuclear bomb. Now, Kim can just add a few finishing touches to his ballistic-missile delivery system, the Taepo-dong ICBM, and he'll be able to wipe out the 9 western states with a flip of the switch.

   
   
  Bush's Nuclear Apocalypse
By Chris Hedges
October 9, 2006

The aircraft carrier Eisenhower, accompanied by the guided-missile cruiser USS Anzio, guided-missile destroyer USS Ramage, guided-missile destroyer USS Mason and the fast-attack submarine USS Newport News, is, as I write, making its way to the Straits of Hormuz off Iran. The ships will be in place to strike Iran by the end of the month. It may be a bluff. It may be a feint. It may be a simple show of American power. But I doubt it.

   
   
  Nuclear Blackmail
By Eric S. Margolis
October 8, 2006

North Korea has repeatedly agreed to junk its nuclear weapons provided the US does three things:
1. deal directly with Pyongyang, which Washington refuses to do;
2. provide security guarantees that the US will not attack North Korea;
3. provide economic aid. The Bush Administration's hard-line neoconservatives refuse to 'validate' North Korea's totalitarian regime through direct talks. Neocons are determined to overthrow Kim Jong-il.t

   
   
  U.S. Nuclear Attack on Iran
Comment by Larry Ross
October 8, 2006

Ex-U.S. Senator Gary   Hart claims Bush will launch "a preemptive war against Iran" this month before the November Congressional elections in the US.
The present predictions are that the Democrats would win enough seats to take control of the House, thus upsetting the Republican majority and perhaps preventing the more extreme war plans of the Bush Administration. The Bush neoconservative regime is determined to prevent that and reverse public opinion so that the Republicans will retain control. 
Will the Bush Administration rely only on lies and false propaganda, as Gary Hart's article implies, to justify preemptive war against Iran?
Or will Bush stage a 'False Flag' so-called 'terrorist attack' on the U.S. and blame Iran , in order to justify the use of nuclear weapons?

  Bush - Divine Guidance?
Comment by Larry Ross
October 7, 2006

Here is an article which gives more in-depth information about one of the themes in my NZ Tour talk - the influence of religious beliefs on Bush's foreign policy decisions. Also, "The October Surprise " may include a "False Flag" operation to gain public support for war with Iran and give a boost to Bush's and Republican Party popularity, for the Nov U.S.  elections, as detailed in my talk. It's very much like Adolph Hitler having the Reichstag burned down 3 days before the 1933 German elections, in order to get popular approval and Hindenberg's agreement to sign papers doing away with civil rights and allowing the installation of Hitler's dictatorship. At the moment, NZ might follow the U.S. lead, due lack of public education about this possibility.
(Note: Google "False Flag" for more information on the extent of various Governments use of FF)

 

The October Surprise

By Gary Hart, HuffingtonPost
October 3, 2006

It should come as no surprise if the Bush Administration undertakes a preemptive war against Iran sometime before the November election.
Were these more normal times, this would be a stunning possibility, quickly dismissed by thoughtful people as dangerous, unprovoked, and out of keeping with our national character. But we do not live in normal times.
And we do not have a government much concerned with our national character. If anything, our current Administration is out to remake our national character into something it has never been.

   
   
  Roberts Issues Red Alert On Bush Nuclear Bombing Iran
Comment by Larry Ross
September 26, 2006

Here is a dire warning from one of the best commentators on US policy, that Bush will nuclear bomb Iran. Read it and draw your own conclusions. If you agree the situation is extremely dangerous, then please forward it as widely as possible.

 

Why Bush Will Nuke Iran

By Paul Craig Roberts
September 26, 2006

The neoconservative Bush administration will attack Iran with tactical nuclear weapons, because it is the only way the neocons believe they can rescue their goal of US (and Israeli) hegemony in the Middle East.
The US has lost the war in Iraq and in Afghanistan. Generals in both war theaters are stating their need for more troops. But there are no troops to send.
See also
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12569.htm

   
   
  Understanding the Death of U.S. Liberalism
Comment by Larry Ross
September 22, 2006

For a long time I've wondered why, in the home of freedom and democracy, there is not more outraged liberal reaction to the phoney and contrived "wars on terror".
After reading Tony Judt's article, I now understand. It will not be surprising if Bush succeeds in converting America into a fascist state in all but name. That is because there does not appear to be much intelligent opposition to Bushism. Tony mentions so many prominent liberals who have quickly converted to defending and justifying Bush war madness against the newly coined but non-existent 'Islamo-fascism'.

 

Bush's Useful Idiots

Tony Judt on the Strange Death of Liberal America
September 21, 2006

Why have American liberals acquiesced in President Bush's catastrophic foreign policy? Why have they so little to say about Iraq, about Lebanon, or about reports of a planned attack on Iran? Why has the administration's sustained attack on civil liberties and international law aroused so little opposition or anger from those who used to care most about these things? Why, in short, has the liberal intelligentsia of the United States in recent years kept its head safely below the parapet?

   
   
  Machiavelli In Whitehouse
Comment by Larry Ross
September 21, 2006

Blumenthal's article is an excellent review of the details of present and past U.S. presidencies He details the disasters of the Bush regime, his many deceptions and the black future if Bush continues.. He knows the right words and symbols that sell the American people - then turns them on their head and does the opposite.

 

The Disastrous Rule of a Mayberry Machiavelli

By Sidney Blumenthal
September 20, 2006

Bush ran as a moderate, tacked right and governed ineffectually -- before 9/11. Since then he has become the most radical American president in history, and arguably the worst.
The following is an excerpt from How Bush Rules: Chronicles of a Radical Regime (Princeton University Press, 2006).
No one predicted just how radical a president George W. Bush would be. Neither his opponents, nor the reporters covering him, nor his closest campaign aides suggested that he would be the most willfully radical president in American history.

A History of the Bush Administration in One Sentence
by William Rivers Pitt
March 3, 2005
The first dictator of a democratic country. BE VERY AFRAID
   
   
  U.S. Torture and False Imprisonment Is A Policy
Comment by Larry Ross
September 21, 2006

One can assume that the Bush regime is aware that his Iraqi Command says that 18,770 Iraqis have been released since June 2004. US officers told the International Red Cross that 70 to 90 percent of the Iraqi detentions were "mistakes".
Also, it is well established that torture does not produce reliable information. So in addition to moral, ethical and legal considerations, there is no practical advantage in torturing one's victims. Also Bush's torture policies makes enemies and turns the U.S. into an international pariah.
So what's the point of his torture policies.?

 

Bush's Cruel and Degrading Presidency

By Mike Whitney
September 19, 2006

Washington is a moral swamp. When the chief executive can stand at the presidential podium and make an unabashed appeal for torture, then the American dream is dead.
Bush hates America and only God knows why? He's been buoyed-along his entire life on a raft of wealth and privilege; distancing himself from his endless failures, one after the other…flop, flop, flop. Still, Bush wants more; another pound of flesh to inflate his battered, alcohol-saturated ego. He wants to snuff out anything that even vaguely resembles honor or decency or dignity so he can permeate the world with his own fiendish image beaming from TVs across the globe.

   
   
  Bush's Messianic Mission To Make War On Iran
Comment by Larry Ross
September 21, 2006

According to Seymour Hersh, Bush has a messianic mission - making war on Iran. The pretext, as we learned from Bush's war on Iraq, is that his neocon administration creates it's own pretexts for war, by stringing together a fabric of lies, and demonizing the leader of the target nation.
Even if Iran had or was planning to make nuclear weapons, that does not give Bush & Co the right to wage pre-emptive war against it. Does the U.S. make war on Israel, because Israel has an arsenal of 200-500 nuclear weapons?. It does not, nor does it make war or threaten sanctions against any of the other nuclear weapon states -Russia, China, Britain, France, Pakistan, North Korea, India. So why would Bush risk starting a major war in the Middle East - even a nuclear war -  that could escalate and end the world?.

 

Hersh: U.S. mulls nuclear option for Iran

Wolf Blitzer from CNN
April 10 , 2006

HERSH: The word I hear is "messianic." He thinks, as I wrote, that he's the only one now who will have the courage to do it. He's politically free. I don't think he's overwhelmingly concerned about the '06 elections, congressional elections. I think he really thinks he has a chance, and this is going to be his mission.

   
   
  "The Bigger the Lie, the More People Will Believe It" - Adolph Hitler
Comment by Larry Ross
September 6, 2006

Bush is not fighting a global war on terrorism in Iraq or anywhere else. There was no terrorism in Iraq until Bush provoked the resistance to invasion and American barbarism. He calls such resistance "terrorism" for his own political purposes. His wars and policies and statements make far more resistance to American aggression or "terrorism" as he likes to call it, than it defeats. His so-called "war on terrorism" in Iraq is not a war - particularly after he quickly defeated the puny forces of Saddam Hussein. It has always been an illegal invasion and massacre of civilians, based on many whopping big lies. His tactics don't kill terrorists, it makes them.

 

Bush's Terror Tales

by Rami G. Khouri
September 1, 2006

There is something sad about a grown man playing children's make-believe war games in a tree-house in grandpa's back yard?which is how George W. Bush came across Thursday night in his  speech on the importance of winning the war in Iraq in the global battle against terrorism. Rarely does a leader of a great country like the United States malign history, his people's intelligence and the dignity of over a billion Muslims in one speech. But Bush did that Thursday night and will probably keep doing it for a while.

   
   
  The Road to Guantánamo
This Film Showing in NZ in July & August, 2006

The true story of four British Muslim boys who went to Pakistan for a wedding in September 2001 and ended up as tortured prisoners of the US Army is re-enacted as a modern horror story in Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross' electrifying exposé.

 

 

  Brilliant Analysis Misses Some Key Points?
Comment by Larry Ross
August 4, 2006

Bush may be a man of very limited abilities who honestly makes huge mistakes. Paul Waldman brilliantly points these out below.
But also, lest people forget, Bush is a serial war criminal, who is robbing the U.S. Treasury, destroying America's tarnished record, and endangering the world's population by threatening to use nuclear weapons to build an Empire.

  Things Get Ugly When Bush 'Trusts His Gut'
By Paul Waldman
August 3, 2006

When President Bush was caught on tape saying to Tony Blair, “See the irony is what they need to do is get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this shit and it's over,” more than a few progressives said to themselves, “Well that’s a trenchant analysis of the situation, Sherlock.” And more than a few conservatives said, “Damn straight”?or as Michelle Malkin put it, “Sometimes, profanity is called for.”

   
   
  Working for Armageddon
Comment by Larry Ross
August 3, 2006

Extreme Christian Fundamentalists and Christian Zionists are working, wishing, and praying for Armageddon as indicated in Sarah Posner's article below. They are making an impact on U.S. policy and calling for a U.S.- Israeli war on Iran to speed the process of warmaking, and ultimately, the Biblically prophesied Armageddon. The true believers are not worried but look forward to Armageddon, as they believe they will be 'raptured' directly to heaven while the unbelieving rest of humanity suffer the fires of hell for eternity.
The tendency of most normal rational people and the majority of Christians is to laugh and dismiss such obvious insanity.
However Bush admits to being a 'born again' fundamentalist Christian who consults with, and gets messages from God.

  Lobbying for Armageddon
by Sarah Posner
August 3, 2006

In a perfect world, a reporter at last week's press conference with George Bush and Tony Blair would have asked Bush, in the presence of his principal European ally, if he believes the European Union is the Antichrist.
Although it sounds like the kind of Pat Robertson lunacy that makes even the wingnuts run for the nearest exit, it's a question Bush should be forced to answer. Bush and other leading Republicans have lined up behind a growing movement of Christian Zionists for whom a European Antichrist figures prominently in an end-times scenario.

   
   
  D.U. Weapons Dust: With us Forever
by Larry Ross
August 3, 2006

D.U. weapons radiation, being spread by the US and UK in Iraq, and now in Lebanon, has a half-life of 4.5 billion years.
Wind currents will carry it around the world. The more DU weapons are used the more people will become radiated, diseased and die - not just in the countries where it is directly used - but eventually it will contaminate and kill everywhere.. The Pentagon assures everyone it is safe. They are fully aware that they are lying. Without doubt this is one of George Bush's most terrible war crimes. .

  The Global Threat of DU
by Dr Robert Anderson
August 2, 2006

Adding to the horrors of the current offensive into Lebanon, with Afghanistan close to anarchy and Iraq drifting into civil war, Bush is now rushing depleted uranium (DU) bombs to Israel. This supports their colossal act of homicide and will increase further global contamination by radioactive DU particles.

   
   
 

Top Republican Claims Bushcons Organised 9/11 Attack

Comment by Larry Ross
July 17, 2006

Morgan Reynolds joins a growing group of well-known Americans who have exposed the truth that the 9/11 attack was an inside job. The attack's purpose was to persuade Americans that this was a new "Pearl Harbour" attack on the U.S.A. Then the Bush Administration with media cooperation used that attack to fool Americans into supporting a "war on terrorism" and specific wars on Afghanistan, Iraq and in the future, other targets. The object, as indicated in the neocon PNAC papers, was to start up a "long war" in the Middle East - to conquer the territory - and control the world's oil resources.

  Media hide the truth: 9/11 was inside job
by Kevin Barrett
May 14, 2006

Last Saturday, former Bush administration official Morgan Reynolds drew an enthusiastic capacity crowd to the Wisconsin Historical Society auditorium. It is probably the first time in Historical Society history that a political talk has drawn a full house on a Saturday afternoon at the beginning of final exams.
Reynolds, the former director of the Criminal Justice Center at the National Center for Policy Analysis, and the ex-top economist for George W. Bush's Labor Department, charged the Bush administration with gross malfeasance, and proposed the prosecution of top administration officials.

  Conspiracy and Closed Minds on 9/11
by Morgan Reynolds
March 13, 2006

While more Americans doubt the 9/11 story every week, evidence abounds that many have a mental block against rational examination of the evidence about 9/11. The possibility that it was an inside job is a non-starter for them. Programmed “cut outs” insure that 9/11 doubts are consigned to the “conspiracy” closet.
Last June I was explaining the fuss over my 9/11 article to a family member who shall remain anonymous and he interrupted and said, “I don't want to talk about it.” Millions join him in that sentiment. By implication they might as well say: “I'd rather cling to the official 9/11 myth” = “If mass murderers run free, I'm fine with that” = “If 9/11 was an inside job, then I'm ruled by monsters and I might have to do something about it, I'd rather watch Paris Hilton.”
Where does this passive attitude come from? Causes are many but American indoctrination has two sides that figure prominently in the explanation:

   
   
  Bush Commands: "Disappear" To Global Warming
Comment by Larry Ross
July 13, 2006

Christian Fundamentalists like George Bush, believe that global warming does not matter, as God is coming soon to rule earth for 1,000 years, have the Biblical Armageddon battle and earth as we know it, will no longer exist. So who cares about global warming?

   
   
  Many are Whispering: Is Bush Insane?
Comment by Larry Ross
July 8, 2006

...t's not just the Americans that are in trouble. If he brings on a nuclear war Bush can achieve a nuclear Armageddon. That is "God's will". He says so in the Bible according to millions of Fundamentalist Christian Americans who are looking forward to the 'End Times'. George Bush is their hero. And their numbers are growing every day. Craziness and the 'culture of paranoid nuttiness' are contagious. ...

  Is Bush Insane? It Can Get Worse
posted by windspike
March 3, 2005

But Bush administration policy toward the Middle East is being run by men, yes, only men who were routinely referred to in high circles in Washington during the 1980s as "the crazies." I can attest to that personally, but one need not take my word for it. According to James Naughtie, author of The Accidental American: Tony Blair and the Presidency , former Secretary of State Colin Powell added an old soldier's adjective to the "crazies" sobriquet in referring to the same officials. Powell, who was military aide to Defense Secretary Casper Weinberger in the early 80s, was overheard calling them "the f -ing crazies" during a phone call with British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw before the war in Iraq. At the time, Powell was reportedly deeply concerned over their determination to attack with or without UN approval. Small wonder that they got rid of Powell after the election, as soon as they had no more use for him.

   
   
 

How Bush Breaks the Ten Commandments

by Brooke Allen and Patrick Doyle
July 3, 2006

The Bush presidency is the most overtly religious in living memory, probably in all of American history. The President has stated his belief that he has been called by God and acts as if Americans are God's new chosen people, successors to the ancient Israelites.
Some evangelical Christians claim to base their moral code on Mosaic law, and last year the Supreme Court even allowed a six-foot granite monument engraved with the Ten Commandments to be displayed on the grounds of the Texas State Capitol, advancing the historically debatable proposition that our national legal system is based on biblical sources. But just how good has the Bush Administration's record been when it comes to following the Ten Commandments?

   
   
  Nuclear Attack On Iran
Comment by Larry Ross
June 18, 2006

Paul Craig Roberts has excellent credentials for warning us about the evil intentions of the Bush Administration. A Google search showed 14,200,000 entries under "Paul Craig Roberts". He is a prolific and well-known U.S. journalist whose warnings cannot be dismissed as "IMPROBABLE", "UNLIKELY" "CRAZY" "THEY WOULD NEVER DO THAT" etc.
.... Education is vital on these issues as the mass media has so far suppressed the most important facts. Often I think the media is trying to keep New Zealanders in a cocoon of ignorance about what is really happening, and why, in the wider world.

  Nuking Iran
by Paul Craig Roberts
June 12, 2006

...Bolton told the Financial Times (June 9) that the Bush Regime has no intention of reaching an agreement with Iran. Time is running out for diplomacy,...
There is no evidence that Iran has a nuclear weapons program. Every physicist knows that the enrichment requirement for weapons is many times greater than for nuclear energy and that Iran can barely achieve the latter. Despite the facts, Bolton told the Financial Times: "They've [Iran] got both feet on the accelerator, which is why we have a sense of urgency. Each day that goes by gives Iran more time to continue to perfect its efforts for mass production."

   
   
  Bush Spreads Democratic Genocide
Comment by Larry Ross
June 1, 2006

As well as the Haditha dead victims of U.S. 'Democracy' some 250,000 innocent men, women and children in Iraq have experienced the direct fruits of U.S. democracy from the barrels of U.S. guns, the U.S. bombs dropped on them, and the destruction of their homes.. This is the 'democracy-in-action' that Bush is determined to continue at any cost, as his West Point speech indicates.

  Spreading Democracy in Haditha
By Mike Whitney
May 30, 2006

As details of the atrocities in Haditha continue to surface in the media, it is clear that George Bush is either completely divorced from reality or simply incapable of grasping the catastrophe he has created. In fact, he is as culpable in the deaths of the “24 unarmed Iraqis” as if he had put the gun to their heads' and shot them one by one.

   
   
  The Unstoppable March of American Fascism - Road Map to Extinction
posted May 28, 2006

Will the American public see the looming abyss before it's too late

 

George Orwell, Novelist or Prophet?

by Steve Osborn
March 10, 2006

GEORGE Orwell wrote his book, 1984, in the 1940's. The year, 1984, was a long way off then, but what he foresaw as a possibility seemed much closer. We approached it during the McCarthy years in the fifties, but sanity reasserted itself.
When Nixon came to power, it looked like Orwell's fears might come to pass, but Nixon and his cronies overreached themselves and we were saved again. Reagan and Bush I came fairly close also. They refined a lot of the techniques, but the time was not right. It is beginning to look like the Regime of Bush II might turn Orwell from a novelist into a prophet.

   
   
  Bush Madness Explained
Comment by Larry Ross
May 23, 2006

"Bush has been taken over... by a saviour complex..."the person playing the archetypal role of saviour will reflect this unconsciousness and become inflated, blown up out of all proportion by the power of the archetype. He will then, of necessity, be compelled to act out his hubris in a way that is destructive for all who are under his dominion."

  Bush Is Certifiable
by Paul Levy
May 18, 2006

George W. Bush is suffering from a peculiar but not that uncommon form of madness in which a pathological part of his psyche has co-opted all of the healthy parts into its service.
Speaking about such a pathological condition, Jung commented that “…an unknown ‘something' has taken possession of a smaller or greater portion of the psyche and asserts its hateful and harmful existence undeterred by all our insight, reason, and energy, thereby proclaiming the power of the unconscious over the conscious mind, the sovereign power of possession.”
Bush has been taken over by an unconscious complex of the collective unconscious. We speak of a mother complex, or a father complex, but Bush has what we could call a savior complex. Jung said, “The savior complex is an archetypal image of the collective unconscious, and it quite naturally becomes activated in an epoch so full of trouble and disorientation as ours.” The archetypal figure of savior is literally dreamed up into incarnation by the field to be both a compensation for and an expression of the disorientation and dissociation in the field.

  This Way Lies Madness
by Steve Osborn
March 22, 2006

The latest information I have had from the followers of der Bush is that he has demanded and received permission to use nuclear "bunker busters" in Iran in a preemptive strike. As a nuclear veteran (Operation Redwing, Bikini, 1956) I can affirm that this is absolute madness. The "bunker buster" is a cute sounding name for a nuclear horror. Air bursts are horrible enough, doing incredible destruction through heat, shock and high initial radiation. The fallout from an air burst is registered around the world. A surface or subsurface burst is even deadlier and more long lasting.

   
   
  Ignoring the U.S. Constitution and Installing Fascism In America
Comment by Larry Ross
May 17, 2006

Paul Craig Roberts has excellent credentials to warn about "the Bush regime's illegal and unconstitutional exercise of power". It is so true that "The neo conservative Bush regime has adroitly used 9/11 to create fear of terrorism among Americans that blinds Americans to the Bush regime's assault on our constitutional system" It is a "must read" article and Paul Craig Roberts is one of the best most accurate writers on this and related subjects.

  The Real Assault on America
By Paul Craig Roberts
May 16, 2006

The neoconservative Bush regime has adroitly used 9/11 to create fear of terrorism among Americans that blinds Americans to the Bush regime's assault on our constitutional system. Americans have meekly acquiesced to the Bush regime's brutal assaults on civil liberties, human rights, the separation of powers, and statutory law, because Americans have been brainwashed to believe that the "war on terror" takes precedence and cannot be waged under the rules established by the Founding Fathers.
By elevating its "war on terror" above the US Constitution, the neoconservative Bush regime has made itself a far greater threat to Americans than are foreign terrorists. Two constitutional scholars, Timothy Lynch and Gene Healy, document the Bush regime's forceful assault on the US Constitution in "Power Surge: The Constitutional Record of George W. Bush" released May 3 by the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C.

   
   
  Madman Decides When to Use Nuclear Weapons
Comment by Larry Ross
May 16, 2006

....A future historian, if there is one, will find it astonishing that a so-called intelligent and sophisticated culture, pandered to every whim of this moronic and mentally disturbed man.
They even go to war for him and are now preparing to turn the planet into a nuclear inferno for a person who liked to blow up frogs with fire crackers when he was a boy. It's a crazy situation.....

 

The book: BUSH ON THE COUCH

by Justin Frank

Is our president psychologically fit to run the country? The answer to that is no, says Dr. Justin Frank, a Washington-based psychoanalyst and professor of psychiatry. He says he wrote his book after becoming alarmed about various character traits he noticed in President Bush.    Listen to an interview with Justin Frank - very conservative but still VERY scary.

 

George W. Bush's Disorderly Conduct

Jane Smiley
May 16, 2006

"Frequent temper tantrums, Excessive arguing with adults, Active defiance and refusal to comply with adult requests and rules, Deliberate attempts to annoy or upset people, Blaming others for his or her mistakes or misbehavior, Often being touchy or easily annoyed by others, Frequent anger and resentment, Mean and hateful talking when upset and Seeking revenge."

   
   
  The Brink of Armageddon
Comment by Larry Ross
May 16, 2006

1,800 physicists have warned that we face human extinction if Bush's continues with his new nuclear doctrines, and proceeds with his strategy to use nuclear weapons against Iran or in other conflict. Many other well-informed experts have warned humanity with the same message. There are many reasons that nuclear weapons use would trigger rapid escalation to global nuclear war, and destruction of all life.

  Physicists Say No To Nuking Iran
Alexandra Walker
April 24, 2006

"It is gravely irresponsible for the U.S. as the greatest superpower to consider courses of action that could eventually lead to the widespread destruction of life on the planet. We urge the administration to announce publicly that it is taking the nuclear option off the table in the case of all non-nuclear adversaries, present or future, and we urge the American people to make their voices heard on this matter."

   
   
  "Completely Nuts" or Part of the Plan
Comment by Larry Ross
May 11, 2006

.... The Neocons want chaos and are promoting civil war in Iraq because they intend to occupy their new permanent military bases there for the foreseeable future.....

  Progress Report: The Nuclear Option
by Evan Augustine Peterson III, J.D.
April 11, 2006

Just in case you've gotten the impression that the Bush administration isn't seriously considering a military strike against Iran using both conventional and nuclear weapons, see the Amercan Progress Action Fund's 4-10-06 Progress Report, "The Nuclear Option."
On the brighter side, there are limits to the U.S. military's loyalty to Mr. Bush, and high-ranking American military officers have stated that they are adamantly opposed to the use of bunker-buster tactical nuclear weapons (i.e., so-called "mini-nukes"). Moreover, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has publicly stated that the idea of a nuclear strike against Iran is "completely nuts."

   
   
  The Horrifying Reality of the U.S. in Iraq
Comment by Larry Ross
May 11, 2006

Dahr Jamail's article is real news about the American genocide in Iraq. It may shock and horrify you. You may wonder what Bush and his neocons hope to achieve by their systematic, murder, torture, and imprisonments of  innocent Iraqis. This horrifying mass murder is sold by Bush's, Tony Blair's and John Howard's propaganda machines, including the mass media in the U.S., U.K. and Australia as "bringing democracy to the middle east" and that the only opponents are "terrorists etc" The media will never mention the horrific reality revealed by this fearless, on-the-spot reporter.
Would you like to help stop these outrages? There really is no end to what a seriously concerned person can do.

  All of Us Participate in a New Iraq
By Dahr Jamail
May 10, 2006

    "Dear Mr. Dahr, I am wondering why? Americans and coalition forces were supported by pro-Iranian Militias, like the Badr Organization! The support and help of Iraqi Shiites at first helped to somewhat stabilize and maintain the occupation. Death squads trained by the coalition forces are working day and night under cover of the Ministry of Interior, attacking innocent people: both Sunnis and Shiites!!!! In spite of knowing very well who is doing what, we still see no improvement in the security situation. On the contrary, the situation is getting worse.

   
   
  Another Iraqi Comment on Jamail's article and Bush's War On Iran
Comment by Larry Ross
May 11, 2006

Here is another good comment on Dahr Jamail's article and the expected U.S. war on Iran. He raises the question as to why the Europeans seem to be playing Bush's game and why IAEA's El Baradei is not warning about Bush's intentions to use nuclear weapons. The international community seems to be fiddling and game playing while Bush is planning a major war, even nuclear war. Why?

  All of Us Participate in a New Iraq
May 10, 2006

"It is only when more people in the US begin to fathom the totality of the destruction in Iraq," writes Dahr Jamail, "that one may expect to hear the public outcry and uprising necessary to end the occupation and bring to justice the war criminals responsible for these conditions. Until that happens, make no mistake: all of us participate in a new Iraq, our hands dyed in the blood of innocents."

   
   
  Bush Bases Foreign Policy on Delusions
Comment by Larry Ross
May 12 , 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 leaders' 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.

  Bush claimed God told him to invade Iraq, Afghanistan: BBC
October 7, 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.

   
   
  Roberts Predicts Bush Terrorist Attack on U.S. to Justify War on Iran
Comment by Larry Ross
May 8, 2006

Paul Craig Roberts is an insider with many contacts in government. He served as former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under the Reagan Administration and as associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He writes extensively on the Bush Administration. The writings of this man cannot be dismissed as the ravings of a  lunatic.

  Prominent Conservative Leader:
Government in Hands of Psychopaths

by Alex Jones & Paul Joseph Watson

November 15 2005

May stage terror attacks
Former associate editor of the Wall Street Journal and former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury Dr. Paul Craig Roberts expressed his dire warning that the US government has fallen into the hands of psychopaths and that the Neo-Cons in the Bush administration may be set to stage another terror attack in the US as part of a black operation to demolish growing dissent and coerce the public to rally behind the government once again.

   
   
  Bush Believes His Delusions
Comment by Larry Ross
April 28, 2006

Every arrogant ruler has a set of delusions, sometimes religious, to justify wars and other criminal behaviour.
Bush is no exception as indicated in our section on "Dangers Of Christian Fundamentalism". Bush believes he is chosen by God to do this work. Who cares about public criticism when you have God on your side and whispering in your ear? Bush and millions of unthinking loyal supporters believe this rubbish. Millions of other Americans fear to oppose it, other's don't care or are too busy, so the Bush war machine rolls on toward a nuclear Armageddon. Even the Democratic Party goes along and repeats Bush lies. Hillary Clinton accepts Bush lies, and never attempts to expose them. That's why she remains the leading Democratic contender for President.
The system is very, very, blindly corrupt and heading for self-destruction. The trouble is that the American Sampson will pull the whole temple down in a nuclear cataclysm that may destroy the world.

  The passion of George W. Bush
By Sidney Blumenthal
April 27, 2006

The president doesn't care that he is reviled. He is a martyr, and someday all will see his glory.
Meanwhile, he's got Karl doing his dirty work.

   
   
  1 Million Dead Iranians
Comment by Larry Ross
April 22, 2006

Chris Floyd has written a very powerful, well-documented 2 page article on the hell that Bush and his cohorts intend to unleash on Iran and the number of people he decides must die - 1,000,000. How many more will be wounded, maimed, blinded, burned, radiated, slowly dieing of their untreated wounds.
The madmen have been ruling America since 2,000. Iraq showed what they could do - they started a war based on lies. Not only did they get away with it, the Bushcons cheated their way into power again in 2004. Now they are ready, and with a few words and decisions, can inflict mass genocide in Iran. Bush has the power to destroy the world many times over. It's very possible this will happen if the nuclear slaughter in Iran triggers an expanding holocaust.

  1 Million Dead Iranians
by Chris Floyd
April 21, 2006

Twelve hours. One circuit of the sun from horizon to horizon, one course of the moon from dusk to dawn. What was once a natural measurement for the daily round of human life is now a doom-laden interval between the voicing of an autocrat's brutal whim and the infliction of mass annihilation halfway around the world.

   
   
  Bush Popularity Drops
Comment by Larry Ross
April 21, 2006

This article shows how much the popularity of Bush and his Administration has dropped and how it has alienated the American population. Numerous factors cause this - Bush's very poor domestic performance, his spying on Americans, his arrogance, poor judgement, his dictatorial attitude, and more than anything else, his illegal war on Iraq. Obviously most Americans would disapprove of his war plans for Iran, especially if he nuclear bombs Iran. He and his advisors know this very, very well. Yet they are still  preparing to launch another illegal war on a much bigger and better prepared target - Iran, when their military resources are overstretched. Another crazy neocon mystery? I don't think so.

  In the Rubble
by Tom Engelhardt,
April 16, 2006

You can count on one thing. All over Washington, Republicans are at least as capable as I am of watching and interpreting the polling version of the smash-up of the Bush administration. With each new poll, the numbers creep lower yet. Presidential approval in the latest Washington Post-ABC News poll dropped another 3% in the last month and now sits at 38%, while disapproval of the President continues to strengthen -- 47% of Americans now "strongly disapprove" of the President's handling of the presidency, only 20% "strongly approve." (62%, by the way, disapprove of the President's handling of the war in Iraq.)

   
   
  Bush Likely to Use Nuclear Weapons
Comment by Larry Ross
April 20, 2006

.... Nuclear weapons are believed by the public to be unthinkable except as a last resort, because the use of them would probably escalate out of control and become a global holocaust.

  The Nuclear-Weapons Gambit
by Paul Rogers
April 13, 2006

The world avoided nuclear catastrophe during the cold war, but the era's real history has an ominous lesson for the period of "war on terror".

   
   
  U.S. Physicists Tell Bush "Don't Use Nuclear Weapons Against Iran"
Comment by Larry Ross
April 20, 2006

Top U.S. physicists say " U.S. plans to reportedly use nuclear weapons against Iran were "gravely irresponsible" and warning that such action would have "disastrous consequence for the security of the United States and the world". Last fall 1,800 U.S. physicists repudiated new U.S. nuclear policies that include pre-emptive use of nuclear weapons against others. They said the Hiroshima bomb killed 100,000 people. Today the world's nuclear arsenals have 200,000 times the explosive force of the Hiroshima bomb - enough to kill the world's entire population many times over.

  Prominent U.S. Physicists Send Letter to President Bush,
by Kim McDonald
April 17, 2006

Call Nuclear Weapons Against Iran ‘Gravely Irresponsible’ Thirteen of the nation’s most prominent physicists have written a letter to President Bush, calling U.S. plans to reportedly use nuclear weapons against Iran “gravely irresponsible” and warning that such action would have “disastrous consequences for the security of the United States and the world.”

   
   
  Bush Justifies Nuclear Weapons Use
Comment by Larry Ross
April 19, 2006

This article shows that people are being conditioned to accept the potential use of nuclear weapons and to trust President Bush to make the right decisions in this regard, and that there is nothing immoral or peculiar about this, or any use of nuclear weapons that the President decides is right, and that it is permissible and just, to use them. The possibility that huge numbers of Iran men, women and children might be killed and maimed and that the U.S. has no right or reason to commit such crimes, and that events could spiral into global nuclear war, are not questions that were considered by the article.

 

Bush won't rule out nuclear strike on Iran

By Edmund Blair
April 18, 2006

President Bush refused on Tuesday to rule out nuclear strikes against Iran if diplomacy fails to curb the Islamic Republic's atomic ambitions.
Iran, which says its nuclear program is purely peaceful, told world powers it would pursue atomic technology, whatever they decide at a meeting in Moscow later in the day.

   
   
  Genocide in Fallujah
Comment by Larry Ross
April 17, 2006

It's a never-ending mystery why so many Americans allowed themselves to be conned into supporting this barbarous war.
A deeper mystery is why they continued to support the war even after they learned that Bush and his associates had told a series of lies to get their support.
Having his lies and excuses exposed about the reasons for war, did not result in Bush withdrawing from this illegal war and paying reparations to the Iraqis. Indeed, as the situation worsens, Bush steps up his assault and prepares to make war on Iran.

  Dead Cities
by Chris Floyd
April 14, 2006

Of all the war crimes that have flowed from the originating crime of President George W. Bush's unprovoked invasion of Iraq, perhaps the most flagrant was the destruction of Fallujah in November 2004. Now, as ignominious defeat looms for Bush's Babylonian folly, some of the key players in fomenting the war are urging that the "Fallujah Option" be applied to an even bigger target: Baghdad.
What these influential warmongers openly call for is the "pacification" of Baghdad: a brutal firestorm by U.S. forces, ravaging both Sunni insurgents and Shiite militias in a "horrific" operation that will inevitably lead to "skyrocketing body counts," as warhawk Reuel Marc Gerecht cheerfully wrote last week in the ever-bloodthirsty editorial pages of The Wall Street Journal.

   
   
  Bush & Blair Plan to Create Justification for Their Illegal War on Iraq
Comment by Larry Ross
April 3, 2006

The Whitehouse memo shows Bush and Blair had lots of testimony based on UN inspection that there were no WMD or a nuclear weapons in Iraq. But they decided to make war based on the lie that there were WMD in Iraq, even though that would not be a valid excuse for war in any case. Some of the other lies invented to justify the war were that Saddam had links to al-Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden, and that Saddam was connected to the attack on 9/11, and that Saddam was a threat to the US, UK. None of this was true and Bush and Blair had no evidence for their lies.
Nevertheless both lied to their publics and governments in order to get support for their war.
Now they are planning to do it again to justify a war with Iran.

  Bush, Blair had ‘no evidence’ of Iraq WMDs
reporter: Tony Jones
March 31, 2006

It's extremely rare, to get this kind of an insight of an extremely private, we should say secret meeting between two leaders preparing for a coming war. Tell us what you think are the main insights to be gained from the so-called White House memo?

   
   
  The Only Hope For the World
By Doug Soderstrom, Ph.D.
April 1, 2006

The world has gotten itself into a real jam. I mean a humdinger of a jam! As in John Paul Sartre's existential drama, No Exit, which so nicely portrays the inescapability of self-chosen evil, the inevitability of a self-made Hell, there seems to be no way out for the world; no way for the inhabitants of planet Earth to escape what appears to be the inevitability of a hell of its own making... World War III!

   
   
  Born Again President Prepares to Kill Millions for No Reason
Comment by Larry Ross
March 31, 2006

Nobel Laureates and other prominent figures petitioned the U.S. Congress not to nuclear bomb Iran "regardless of whether Iran is in any way involved in an attack on the U.S." This plan is very much like the Pentagon's "Operation Northwoods" to blame and then bomb and invade Cuba in 1962, after a faked attack on the U.S. using U.S. covert action.
Petitioners were appalled at the Bush-Pentagon plan, which was justified with their Nuclear Posture Review, Dec 2001, and Doctrine for Joint Nuclear Operations, March 15, 2005 to "use nuclear weapons as a tool in warfare like any other".

  Will The U.S. Nuke Iran?
From IHC

In an August 2005 issue of The American Conservative, former CIA officer Philip Girarldi raised the alarm over in-process Pentagon contingency plans drafted in preparation for another terrorist attack in the United States. The response includes a plan for a massive air assault on Iran with the use of both conventional and tactical nuclear weapons regardless of whether Iran is any way involved in such an attack against the U.S.
One month after the publication of Giraldli's warnings, physicists from around the world, including numerous Nobel laureates and prominent figures, signed a petition expressing their dismay at seeing the architects of Bush administration policy embrace the use of nuclear weapons as a tool in warfare like any other. The new US policy to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear countries has been officially formulated in two US government documents Nuclear Posture Review delivered to Congress in December 2001 and Doctrine for Joint Nuclear Operations dated March 15, 2005.

   
   
  Bush Determined to Invade Iraq in 2003, Regardless of No U.N. Resolution and No WMD
by Larry Ross
March 29, 2006

The following secret memo of Bush/Blair meetings in January 2003, published in shows Bush determined to invade Iraq, even if they failed to get a second UN resolution and UN inspectors did not find any WMD.
Bush discussed with Blair "various ways to provoke a confrontation" with Iraq to justify invasion such as:
" flying U2 reconnaissance aircraft with fighter cover over Iraq, painted in U.N. colours...If Saddam fired on them, he would be in breach" and that would give the U.S. a pretext to attack.

  Bush Was Set on Path to War, British Memo Says
by DON VAN NATTA Jr.
March 27, 2006

But behind closed doors, the president was certain that war was inevitable. During a private two-hour meeting in the Oval Office on Jan. 31, 2003, he made clear to Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain that he was determined to invade Iraq without the second resolution, or even if international arms inspectors failed to find unconventional weapons, said a confidential memo about the meeting written by Mr. Blair's top foreign policy adviser and reviewed by The New York Times.

   
   
  Deranged, Disconnected, and Dangerous
by Paul Craig Roberts
March 21, 2006

On March 17 William Rivers Pitt wrote that Bush is "deranged, disconnected, and dangerous." In his March 20 Cleveland speech, Bush proved Pitt right.
Bush gave a delusional speech that shows he is detached from reality. "We’re going to help the Iraqis build a strong democracy that will be an inspiration throughout the Middle East, a democracy that’ll be a partner in the global war against the terrorists."
Has no one told Bush that the Iraqis cannot even agree to form a government?
The day before Bush’s delusional Cleveland speech, Iyad Allawi, the former prime minister of one of our make-believe Iraqi governments, said that in Iraq the casualty rate from the sectarian strife is so high that "if this is not civil war, then God knows what civil war is."

   
   
  U.S. Formula For Endless Wars
Comment by Larry Ross
March 19, 2006

The new 49 page Security blueprint sounds like a formula to initiate pre-emptive war whenever and on whoever the U.S. decides - and Iran is next on their list.
The U.S. even tells Russia and China they must increase whatever the U.S. says is "freedom" and warns that the U.S. is "hedging" if they don't meet U.S. specifications.
This formula for endless war, and possibly nuclear war soon for Iran, could become a quick ending of the human race.

  US restates strike-first policy, warns Iran
by AFP
March 16, 2006

Making no apologies for the war in Iraq, the United States reaffirmed its strike-first policy of pre-emption and warned that Iran may pose the biggest threat to US national security.
"We may face no greater challenge from a single country than from Iran," the White House said in a 49-page blueprint called "The National Security Strategy of the United States of America."
The report drew up a balance sheet of what it called US President George W. Bush's foreign policy successes and remaining "challenges" like bloody violence in Iraq and tense standoffs over nuclear programs in Iran and North Korea.

   
   
  Killing the Truth
Comment by Larry Ross
March 19, 2006
Journalists are being killed by US/UK forces for reporting the truth in Iraq about the massacre men, women and children and that most of the so-called "sectarian killing" is really done by forces under the direction of the U.S. military.
The object is to foment a real civil war between Sunnis and Shiites.
That would provide justification for the U.S. to stay in Iraq and support the "threatened democracy". It would weaken what the U.S. calls a government in Iraq and make it more dependant on keeping U.S. forces in Iraq. The U.S. has always intended to stay in Iraq and that is why they have build many permanent military bases there.
  Why Journalists Are Being Murdered In Iraq
by Finian Cunningham
March 16, 2006
THE saying goes that the first casualty of war is the truth. Included in this category in Iraq it seems are the people who endeavour to tell the truth, the journalists.
To date, some 65 journalists have been killed in Iraq since the US/UK invasion in March 2003, according to the internationally respected Committee to Protect Journalists. Iraq, says the CPJ, has become the deadliest recent conflict for journalists to work in.
   
   
  Bush Iraq War Strategy
Comment by Larry Ross
March 16, 2006
That Bush has stepped up his air raids in Iraq, doesn't care who he kills and maims and that Iraqis testify that this increases the level of Iraqi hate and resistance indicates Bush's real strategy.
Bush wants chaos and civil war in Iraq - as much as he can generate - before he attacks his next target which is Iran.
The more violence and civil war in Iraq, and the weaker the new Iraqi government is, the more Americans can claim to be needed, must stay and "help build the new democracy" and build more permanent military bases. Also, more violence means easier pickings for those systematically stripping Iraq of its assets, and more ' evidence' that Iran can be blamed for the increasing resistance. The more war, the more Bush's cronies in the U.S. military/industrial complex prosper.
  U.S. military airstrikes significantly increased in Iraq
by Tom Lasseter
March, 14, 2006

American forces have dramatically increased airstrikes in Iraq during the past five months, a change of tactics that may foreshadow how the United States plans to battle a still-strong insurgency while reducing the number of U.S. ground troops serving here.

   
   
  Vitally Important Information on Bush's Plan for Nuclear War On Iran
Comment by Larry Ross
March 16, 2006

This long - 17 page essay, with many back up links to give more extensive information on key points, is once of the most thorough articles we have republished on the new nuclear doctrines and how they will be applied to wage a pre-emptive nuclear war on Iran.
It is vitally important that everyone read it and forward it to as many people as possible.
Michel Chossudovsky is very erudite, well-informed and convincing. It is so very important that the article be read, perhaps several times, and then acted on - as time remaining before Bush launches his assault is short.

"We have discovered the most terrible bomb in the history of the world. It may be the fire destruction prophesied in the Euphrates Valley Era, after Noah and his fabulous Ark.... This weapon is to be used against Japan ... [We] will use it so that military objectives and soldiers and sailors are the target and not women and children. Even if the Japs are savages, ruthless, merciless and fanatic, we as the leader of the world for the common welfare cannot drop that terrible bomb on the old capital or the new. ... The target will be a purely military one... It seems to be the most terrible thing ever discovered, but it can be made the most useful."    (President Harry S. Truman, Diary, July 25, 1945)

  The Dangers of a Middle East Nuclear War (Part1)
by Michel Chossudovsky
February 17, 2006

New Pentagon Doctrine: Mini-Nukes are "Safe for the Surrounding Civilian Population"

  Is the Bush Administration Planning a Nuclear Holocaust?
by Michel Chossudovsky
February 22, 2006

Will the US launch "Mini-nukes" against Iran in Retaliation for Tehran's "Non-compliance"?

   
   
  Nuclear Bunker Buster Bombs againt Iran: This Way Lies Madness
by Stephen M. Osborn
March 14, 2006

The latest information I have had from the followers of Bush is that he has demanded and received permission to use nuclear “bunker busters” in Iran in a preemptive strike. As a nuclear veteran (Operation Redwing, Bikini, 1956) I can affirm that this is absolute madness. The “bunker buster” is a cute sounding name for a nuclear horror. Air bursts are horrible enough, doing incredible destruction through heat, shock and high initial radiation. The fallout from an air burst is registered around the world. A surface or subsurface burst is even deadlier and more long lasting.

   
   
  Empire Built On Lies
Comment by Larry Ross
March 5, 2006

Here is yet more evidence that Bush stole the 2000 and 2004 elections, knew about and was involved in the 9/11 attack that was used as an excuse to justify his illegal Iraq war. He now presides over a growing criminal empire of deception and lies that gets stronger every day. The results of his escalating crimes will be felt years into the future, unless his wars trigger off a holocaust that destroys us all first.
The media has covered up for him, and his crimes, at every turn and does everything it can to divert public attention from the truth about 9/11 and the Iraq war. The Democrats have been too beholden to the military/industrial complex to challenge Bush lies and illegal actions. Most people who participated in these crimes against their fellow Americans are too afraid to talk, deeply and profitably involved themselves, or psychopaths and neocons who believe in what they are doing.

  Scholars for 9/11 Truth
Posted by Marty Martin
February 5, 2006
The Bush administration’s justification for our preemptive invasion of Iraq and the continuing costly war is largely based on the official version of events of September 11, 2001.
Imagine the political implications if voters were to discover that fundamental portions of the official story were fabrications.
So far, the mainstream media and public have been unwilling to question the official version, but this may be changing.
A group of scholars, calling themselves Scholars for 9/11 Truth are now educating the public about fatal flaws in the administration’s story.
I encourage you to take a fresh look at the evidence, and support an independent assessment of those events.
     
   
  Prisons Ready For Dissenters
Comment by Larry Ross
March 4, 2006
Please read the following article as it is likely to happen if the Bush regime, or it's nominated successor, continues in office.
As Kurt predicts," the Straussian neocons sincerely intend to populate the new U.S. prisons" most probably with war dissenters.     
If those who value their liberty don't use it, they may lose it.
  Bush Neocons: Going After Fifth Columnists
by Kurt Nimmo
February 22 2006
David Horowitz, on the paycheck of the reactionary Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation and CIA collaborator Richard Scaife’s foundation, ranted and raved back at the outset of the Iraqi invasion in early 2003, issuing shrill warnings about a “Fifth Column … preparing to move into action to attempt to defeat America in its war against Saddam.” According to Horowitz, the incipient “peace movement is not about peace” but is instead “a fifth column communist movement” determined “to destroy America and give victory to our totalitarian enemies.” Horowitz predicted a violent communist revolution in the streets of America—possibly a flashback to earlier times when Horowitz was an antiwar radical responsible for orchestrating an often violent “peace” movement with his high profile Ramparts Magazine (until he decided working for the Straussian neocons was more profitable)—a hateful bedlam that did not occur because the 2003 antiwar movement primarily consisted of average Americans, not “communists” or “America-haters,” as Horowitz would have it in his paranoid fantasies.
     
   
  Permanent Bases Point Toward Permanent War
by Evan Augustine Peterson III, J.D.
February 17,2006

"To initiate a war of aggression is, therefore, not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime, differing from other war crimes only in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole."
- Judgment of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, relating to "Count Two, the Crime of Aggression," as brought against Herman Goering, Joachim von Ribbentrop, and 14 other defendants.
In Mr. Bush's "State 0f The Union" address, he claimed that "US forces will be drawn down as Iraqi forces stand up."
[1] However, this claim is flatly contradicted by the Pentagon's ongoing multibillion-dollar expenditures for the construction of 106 permanent bases - including six hi-tech "super-bases" - inside Iraq. [2]

  WWIII or Bust: Implications of a US Attack on Iran
by Heather Wokusch
February 18, 2006
"This notion that the United States is getting ready to attack Iran is simply ridiculous... Having said that, all options are on the table."   -- George W. Bush, February 2005
Witnessing the Bush administration’s drive for an attack on Iran is like being a passenger in a car with a raving drunk at the wheel. Reports of impending doom surfaced a year ago, but now it’s official: under orders from Vice President Cheney’s office, the Pentagon has developed “last resort” aerial-assault plans using long-distance B2 bombers and submarine-launched ballistic missiles with both conventional and nuclear weapons.
     
   
  Why, Where and When Will Bush Use Nuclear Weapons?
Comment by Larry Ross
January 24, 2006
These concerned people should not be be easily dismissed using the usual escape mechanisms we tend to use for unpleasant or unthinkable subjects and problems.
On reflection most people would agree, that this is the greatest problem of all time - that any nuclear weapon state can directly, indirectly or inadvertently, initiate a nuclear holocaust and destroy humanity and our world forever.
     
   
  What America Has Become Under Bush
by Tom Engelhardt
January 17, 2006
Tomgram: Ariel Dorfman on How Bush Makes Fiction of us All
".....Let us suppose that the United States suffers another terrorist attack of even more devastating consequences than the last one, as assault where maybe, who knows, thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of men, women and children die..."
  But What if it Really Happened?
Comment by Larry Ross
January 17, 2006
Remember that the Iraq war was carefully planned well before the 9/11 attack.
The Internet is full of authoritative articles that the Bush Administration is planning a war against Iran - even a nuclear war. As with Iraq, the reasons are oil and power. Will there be a new, larger terrorist attack on the U.S. that Bush can use to justify a larger war against Iran?
Will Americans believe it? Unfortunately, if there is a larger terrorist attack on the U.S., a majority will believe anything their President and media tell them. The crime may be so big, that Bush's past lies will be forgotten or set aside. Americans will support another war, just as they supported the Iraq war.
     
   
  The Holy Crusade
Comment by Larry Ross
January 14, 2006
There are over 14,000,000 results on Google searching under "How Dangerous Is George Bush?"
This is an excellent demonstration showing that so many people know he is extremely dangerous and state why.

In a nutshell, it is because Bush claims it is America's duty to rid the world of terrorist evil. He defines his motives as good and God-approved. Those against him are evil and with the terrorists. Any crime is permissible in Bush's holy war on anything he proclaims as terrorism. In-betweens are not tolerated.
  Dangerous Religion    George W. Bush's theology of empire.
by Jim Wallis
September - October 2003
Religion is the most dangerous energy source known to humankind. The moment a person (or government or religion or organization) is convinced that God is either ordering or sanctioning a cause or project, anything goes. The history, worldwide, of religion-fueled hate, killing, and oppression is staggering. —Eugene Peterson (from the introduction to the book of Amos in the Bible paraphrase The Message)
     
   
  Little Terrorism Found in US?
Comment by Larry Ross
January 11, 2006
From all the people seized and imprisoned by the Bush Administration, there have been remarkably few convictions or uncovering of serious terrorist activity.
I think it's purpose is to inspire fear among Americans that they too might be secretly imprisoned, or spied on, if they are of middle eastern origin, or critical of the Bush Administration. It is all part of the Bush Administration's plan to move American democracy toward a more fascist military state, while claiming this is necessary to protect American democracy against terrorism. The media lap it up, repeat it, and most busy people believe what their paper tells them.
  TERRORISM PROSECUTIONS, 2005: HOW MUCH PROGRESS?
by William Fisher
December 8, 2005
Amidst charges that President Bush and U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) are inflating the number of criminal prosecutions for terrorism, five cases shed light on the administration’s mixed record of convictions during 2005.
In a Florida case, officials at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) falsified documents in an effort to cover repeated missteps and then retaliated against an agent who first complained about the problems.
     
   
  Emerging Fascism in 'Coalition of the Willing'
Comment by Larry Ross
January 6, 2006
One of Pilger's best - crammed with useful facts and insights. Fascism is growing world-wide, in both existing dictatorial countries and in coalition-of-the-willing countries.
If Bush fails to make his 1984 society out of U.S. democracy, a lot of the credit should go to John Pilger for his tireless efforts to educate people about the growing dangers of the Bush/Neocon regime.
 

The Quiet Death Of Freedom

by John Pilger
January 5, 2006
On Christmas Eve, I dropped in on Brian Haw, whose hunched, pacing figure was just visible through the freezing fog. For four and a half years, Brian has camped in Parliament Square with a graphic display of photographs that show the terror and suffering imposed on Iraqi children by British policies. The effectiveness of his action was demonstrated last April when the Blair government banned any expression of opposition within a kilometre of Parliament. The High Court subsequently ruled that, because his presence preceded the ban, Brian was an exception.
     
   
  Bush War Machine Becomes More Vicious
Comment by Larry Ross
January 6, 2006
... Any baby, child, man or woman killed or maimed by Bush Administration mass bombings is automatically called a "terrorist".
In spite of the poor, overstretched state of the US military in Iraq, Bushites are actively planning a war on Iran. Iran is much bigger and better prepared than Iraq. As stated in other articles, if the US experiences significant resistance,
they are likely to use nuclear weapons.
  The New Iraq War Strategy: More Bombings, More Civilian Deaths,
by Michael Schwartz
January 3, 2006
Less Likelihood of Success
...The first of these key themes is the one that was most prominently commented upon. Hersh broke the story – which is now all over the mainstream press – that the U.S. is going to try a new military strategy in Iraq: more intensive air power and less intensive foot patrols. This will involve fewer U.S. offensive operations (like those in western Anbar that involved evacuating whole cities), increased use of Iraqi armed forces in high-resistance areas, and a massive increase in the use of aerial attacks. In the short time since Hersh wrote the article, this new policy has been aggressively enacted.
     
   
  Bush Diagnosed as Crazy
Comment by Larry Ross
January 1, 2006

Over 3 years ago, when this article was written, Bush was diagnosed as a dry alcoholic, with probably permanent damage to his brain cells and thinking processes due to at least 20 years of hard drinking.
All the symptoms of crazy, twisted thinking and refusal to consider constructive criticism of what he wants to do, are evidence of serious mental problems. With his spoilt but distant upbringing, he believes he is entitled to do as he pleases. This is reinforced by his born-again Christian Fundamentalism. He believes he was chosen by God to lead the United States; that he gets advice from God; and that what he does is both inspired and sanctioned by God. He does not accept criticisms of this doctrine.

  On the Eve of War--Is George Bush Crazy?
Editor\Publisher; A.V. Krebs
March 17, 2003
SPEAKING TRUTH TO GWB'S MOMENT OF LIES TO THE WORLD
As the United States stands this day virtually upon the precipice of determining the fate of not only our nation, but the entire world for generations to come silence in the face of George W. Bush's dogs of war is morally and politically unacceptable. At the risk, therefore, of alienating many of the readers of THE AGRIBUSINESS EXAMINER this issue is one journalist's effort to speak truth to absolute power, a power we can see each and every day is corrupting absolutely!!!
  PSYCHOPATHOLOGY OF THE PRESIDENT
Counter Punch
October 2, 2002
Pattern Recognition: "Is The 'President' Nuts?" asks Carol Wolman, M.D. "Many people, inside and especially outside this country, believe that the American president is nuts, and is taking the world on a suicidal path."
     
   

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