THE EMPEROR
HAS NO BRAINS
By
David Brownlow
November 15, 2005
NewsWithViews.com
We
are no longer able to hide from the obvious fact that something
is very, very wrong with our President. His inability to admit,
learn from, or even comprehend his mistakes has become
pathologic. This anomaly is now seriously affecting his capacity
to lead our nation.
As
we observe President Bush sink further into an advanced stage of
delusion and denial, we need to understand that we are dealing
with a mentally unstable – and therefore an extremely
dangerous - man. Our continued failure to deal with this
situation has left our nation in a position of grave and
imminent danger.
Too
much is at stake to let our personal feelings or partisan
politics get in the way of doing what needs to be done. It is
time to remove President Bush from office. Members of the
U.S. Congress should do their duty by beginning the impeachment
proceedings immediately.
That
analysis may sound harsh, but just look at how bad things have
gotten. The President’s recent speeches are riddled with
statements that could only have been made by a man who is
rapidly losing his grip on reality. Case in point: During a
Veterans Day speech at Tobyhanna Army Depot in Pennsylvania, the
President demonstrated he has absolutely no idea why our men and
women are still dying in Iraq. Bush
said:
"As
our troops fight a ruthless enemy determined to destroy our way
of life, they deserve to know that their elected leaders who
voted to send them to war continue to stand behind them."
Now
seriously, does anyone on this earth other than George Bush
really believe the Iraqi people are a “ruthless enemy
determined to destroy our way of life?” If the President
actually believes that, in light of all the evidence to the
contrary, then his mental condition is worse than we thought.
The
Iraqi people are not our enemies. (Or at least they weren’t
before we turned most of their country into a Depleted Uranium
nuclear wasteland) Even their former dictator, who was a genuine
moron, was smart enough to know that threatening to attack us
would be suicide. Then there is the Iraqi army, which our guys
tore through in a couple days, barely even slowing down on the
way to Baghdad. And we are to believe the President when he says
the Iraqis are a “ruthless enemy determined to destroy our
way of life?” What a completely ludicrous thought!
For
the President of the United States to believe something so
absurdly wrong means he is living in a kind of alternate
reality. That is not a very comforting thought considering he is
already talking the same kind of pre-Iraqi war “imminent
threat” propaganda when referring to Iran and Syria. Somebody
needs to stop that man before he decides to invade some other
hapless country.
The
President went on in the same speech to say:
"While
it's perfectly legitimate to criticize my decision or the
conduct of the war, it is deeply irresponsible to rewrite the
history of how that war began."
The
“history of how the war began” is no longer in dispute, and
to claim otherwise is “deeply irresponsible,” if not
completely nuts. In the months leading up to the invasion, our
leaders went on a campaign of fearmongering using evidence (much
of it received from Iranian CIA double agents) that we now know
to be false. High-level Bush administration officials, as well
as the President himself, repeated over and over again the
outrageous notion that Iraq posed an imminent threat to America.
This propaganda campaign quite literally scared our nation into
going off to war.
We
have proven that every accusation made against
Iraq was wrong. Iraq never posed a threat to America and had
nothing to do with 9/11. They did not even have a functioning
army! Everything we were told about the imminent Iraqi threat
was based on completely false information - and it had been from
day one.
That
is the history of the war. It is well-documented and cannot be
denied. No one needs to “rewrite” anything.
It
is quite alarming that the President is still trying to deny the
truth of how we got ourselves into the Iraqi quagmire. Clearly,
there was a lot of false information disseminated by his
administration before and after the invasion. But, does this
mean the President is lying to us? Maybe, as many of his
defenders are saying, the President actually believes what he
has been saying.
OK.
So let’s give President Bush the benefit of the doubt when he
says he believed that the pre-war WMD and imminent danger
stories were true, and that he had no intention of misleading
this nation into war. Let’s take him at his word now when he
says he still believes the war is justified – even to the
point of authorizing secret CIA torture camps. Let us not
dispute that he believes the history of the war is the honorable
one he portrays. Let’s believe him when he says he is
convinced that staying in Iraq is central to the war on terror.
The
fact is however, it would be better for our country if Bush
had lied. If the President actually believes everything that
has come across his teleprompter lately, then this is far worse
than simply having another lying President. Liars we can deal
with.
Crazy
Presidents we cannot.
We
are faced with a situation where there are few ways to explain
away George Bush’s increasingly odd behavior. He seems to have
gone off into a fantasyland at exactly the moment in history
when we need a man at the helm who can understand what a
terrible blunder we made by invading Iraq.
We
need a leader who is willing to admit that we have no business
invading a county that never posed a threat to us. We need a
leader who is prepared to make it right by apologizing to the
Iraqi people (and the world) for the illegal invasion, and
offering to pay the Iraqis for all the things we broke and all
the people we killed. We need a leader who understands that the
only way to support our troops is to bring them home from
Iraq – immediately!
It
has become clear that George Bush is incapable of doing what it
takes to lead this nation, and we need to pull the plug. It
is time to impeach President George W. Bush. And while the
Congress is putting together the details of Bush’s exit
package, they need to clean out the rest of the rats nest by
giving Dick Cheney his walking papers as well.
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David Brownlow, a regular columnist
for NewsWithViews.com,
is the Executive Director of Life Support, an Oregon based
"No Abortion, No Excuses" anti-abortion organization
that is focused on eliminating all government funded
child-killing. David, an engineer, former Constitution Party
candidate, and 25 year political activist, resides in Damascus,
Oregon with his wife Suzanne and their four children.
