Psychoanalysis Of a Madman

Ray McGovern in other members of the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity with the assistance of Dr. Justin Frank have just released a report entitled, "Dangers of a Cornered George Bush." It is a must-read and frankly when of the most unsettling I have come across in recent time. Here is a synopsis,

n this special memorandum, the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) collaborated with psychiatrist Justin Frank, author of Bush on the Couch, to assess the potential dangers and possible countermeasures available to constrain Bush:

Echoing many of my posts on this blog, this article shed slight of the very real danger that Bush will attack Iran. Dr. Frank adds in his analysis,

George W. Bush is without conscience, and it would require a lengthy series of clinical sessions to find out what happened to it. By identifying himself as all good and on the side of right, he has been able to vanquish any guilt, any sense of doing wrong.
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George W. Bush seems also to be without shame. He expresses no regret or embarrassment about his failure to help Katrina victims, or to tell the truth. He says whatever he thinks people want to hear, whether it be “stay the course” or “I’ve never been about ‘stay the course.’” He does whatever he wants.

He lies—not just to us, but to himself as well. What makes lying so easy for Bush is his contempt—for language, for law, and for anybody who dares question him.

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His certitude that he is right gives him carte blanche for destructive behavior. He has always had a sadistic streak: from blowing up frogs, to shooting his siblings with a b-b-gun, to branding fraternity pledges with white-hot coat hangers.

His comfort with cruelty is one reason he can be so jocular with reporters when talking about American casualties in Iraq. Instead of seeing a president in anguish, we watch him publicly joking about the absence of “weapons of mass destruction” in Iraq, in the vain search for which so many young Americans died.

And looks at the following contingencies,

Scenario A: Destructive Attack on the Green Zone
Scenario B: Israeli Attack on Nuclear Targets in Iran.
But What if Impeachment Begins?
Scenario C: Congress Cuts War Funding This Fall

I cannot recommend this article enough, it is a must read. Continue reading here.