I Cogitate

Is George Bush Clinically Insane?

Bill Gallagher
Niagara Falls Reporter
November 6, 2006

DETROIT -- His shrill voice pains sensitive ears. In the red states of the South and West, he ramps up his Texas twang as he brags on his war and hurls insults and lies about those who don't share his views. President George W. Bush says he's "pleased with the progress in Iraq," Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is doing a "fantastic job," and those who support Democrats "want the terrorists to win."

Bush goes well beyond gutter rhetoric and the politics of desperation. He is a delusional madman and a disgrace to our national heritage. When young people hear the president of the United States talking as he does, it's no wonder their perception of politics and public life is so low...

...The Busheviks made the ugly congressional campaign a referendum on the "war on terrorism" and the importance of "victory" in Iraq. They smeared all those who question their war strategy, and pretended that only they have the resolve to make us "safe."

A New York Times editorial nailed it: "In Mr. Bush's world, there are only two kinds of Americans: those who are against terrorism, and those who somehow are right with it. Some Americans want to win in Iraq and some don't. There are Americans who support the troops and Americans who don't support the troops. And at the root of it all is the hideously damaging fantasy that there is a gulf between Americans who love their country and those who question his leadership..."

...The remark (that Rumsfeld and Cheney are doing great jobs) prompted conservative columnist Andrew Sullivan to raise the question of Bush's mental fitness. Sullivan told CNN Bush is so delusional, "this is not an election anymore, it's an intervention..."

...Bush, the great born-again Christian who consulted Jesus with his war plans, is presiding over the death of Christianity in Iraq. Christian refugees are fleeing to Syria and Lebanon in vast numbers. Their churches are being burned, and their priests are being murdered. Iraq's one million Christians -- who have survived on that land for 2,000 years -- are in mortal peril. Bush's war has made that happen...

...Churches are burned, and bishops are fleeing. Christian refugees are living in misery.

I asked Yasso (Father Jacob Yasso, the pastor of Detroit's Sacred Heart Church and a former Baghdad resident) the obvious question, "Was it better under Saddam?"

Quickly and emphatically, he replied, "Much better, yes."

This is what Rumsfeld's "fantastic job" has done. George W. Bush and the Republicans who support the fiasco in Iraq must be held accountable.

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