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December 03, 2006

Roberts Says Bush is Insane

Paul Craig Roberts has repeatedly spoken against President Bush and the War in Iraq, but this time he's gone further than ever before. He has come right out and said that he believes President Bush belongs in a mental institution because of his denial of reality.

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.

The president of the United States is so deep into denial that he is no longer among the sane.

Psychology 101 will tell you that denial is actually a defense mechanism employed in an effort to maintain one's self-image and allow one to go on with daily life. Most people engage in denial at some point (read the site and you'll see what I mean), and it's usually not a problem that threatens their sanity. When does denial become pathological? When it prevents someone "from being able to cope with a real threat and obscure[s] his/her ability to perceive reality." Sounds like what we're seeing.

Bush has always struck me as someone in denial, rather than as an evil person. I have always felt somehow that he was being manipulated by people whose true intentions were not even revealed to the President - that he truly believed he would be doing something good for Iraq, his oil friends and the United States all at the same time. That is not to say his actions have not resulted in grave evil - they certainly have.

Now it seems to me the President is emotionally incapable of facing the reality that his dreams of creating a wonderful Democracy in Iraq and going down in history as a great President simply will not come true and, in fact, he has ruined the country and caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent people. Any of us would be hard-pressed to face up to such a reality (though most of us would not have put ourselves in such a position in the first place). So he must hold on to his fantasy if he is to continue to function on any level without cracking. Unfortunately, his denial of reality has grave consequences for the entire world.

If he is indeed insane, however, should he be taken out of office and replaced by Dick Cheney? Would we rather the most powerful man in the world be clinically insane or an evil Darth Vader?

Posted by Becky at December 3, 2006 12:05 PM