IMPEACH BUSH - for His Own Good - He Is Morally Bankrupt & Criminally Insane (Baltimore Chronicle)

[kpete]

Bush Needs To Be Impeached for His Own Good
by PAUL LEVY

Bush is acting out the ignorant belief that “might makes right,” which is the universal mistake that has led to the fall of all major empires throughout history.

We are in a ridiculous situation. Our president is morally bankrupt and criminally insane. This is indisputable; all we have to do to see it is open our eyes and look at what he is doing. Bush defiantly continues to break innumerable domestic and international laws of basic ethical human behavior. Bush is literally embodying and acting out on the world stage what it is to be criminally insane. His pathology is symbolically expressed in his act of not only refusing to participate in the establishment of the International Criminal Court (ICC), but threatening the use of military force in the event that any American national is tried before it.

And yet, Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats have no intention of impeaching Bush. What is wrong with this picture? What does this tell us about Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats? If they don’t hold the Bush administration accountable for their endless crimes against humanity, Pelosi and the Democrats are complicit in the madness and criminality that is being perpetrated by the Bush administration. It is the Democrats’ (not to mention the Republicans’, as well as all patriotic Americans’) ethical and constitutional duty to impeach the occupant of the Oval Office if he is morally and criminally insane. End of argument. We ourselves are also complicit if we don’t demand that Bush and his gang of thugs be removed from office.

Bush clearly has no intention of listening to the will of the American people. He has no intention of listening to the advice of the Iraq Study Group. He has no intention of listening to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He has no intention of voluntarily leaving Iraq. He is in total denial that the War in Iraq, as countless experts have pointed out, is already lost. He is only interested in hearing voices that support his self-serving delusions. Unwilling to face up to and admit his disastrous foreign policy misadventures in Iraq, by wanting to send in more troops he is simply increasing his folly and worsening a catastrophic situation. To quote ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern and retired Army colonel W. Patrick Lang, “Those who believe still more troops will bring "victory" are living in a dangerous dream world and need to wake up.” It is as if Bush has fallen asleep at the wheel and is dreaming. Like a mad person, he is clearly not in touch with reality.

more at:
http://www.baltimorechronicle.com/2006/123006LEVY.shtml

[malaise]

1. K & R for Impeachment

The Hague, anything to get rid of this sick fugg.
Caps.

[EFerrari]

2. Impeach the pretender. K&R

[babsbunny]

3. You said it so well!

Thank You!

[KAT119]

34. Paul Ley is a key Jungian psychiatrist and spiritual healer, as well....

He has written a seminal new book: "The Maddness of George W. Bush: A Reflection of Our Collective Psychosis".

Looking forward to reading it after this masterfully insightful article on our deadly, moronic commander's inner workings.

[truedelphi]

39. Thanks for the info - I constantly think about this

We always think that we DO NOT DESERVE this guy! But we must because after all, there he is The President

What element in our soul is missing that he is our Top DOg?

After living through a harrowing year (personally) I would say joy is lacking.

Compassion is lacking (The new compassion is a close friend telling you that you a) should have made
better choices and then b) that half hour of endless advice of how you could have made better choices is not followed by five minutes of help)

it all comes back to joy I think

Watch chilfdren play They are joyful,and they are compassionate.

Are the two relted?

[partylessinOhio]

4. The truth hurts but there it is -

"Pelosi and the Democrats are complicit in the madness and criminality that is being perpetrated by the Bush administration. "

Yes, they are and that is very, very troublesome.

[Little Star]

5. Kick

[peacetalksforall]

6. I don't think people realize that the PNAC plan is unfinished -

there must be more profit for friends and family, there can't be any losses, and all crimes must be covered up before PNAC will allow George any flexibility.

Things are going as best they can. We may be too hard on them. They took care of Hussein and got that off the books. Think about all the ME leaders that must be consulted and bought out or threatened. Just keeping Israel, the Christian Right, and the Baron Party speaking through the Iraq Group happy is exhausting. Keeping up our loans to China and figuring out where the people can be squeezed or stolen from. So much juggling. It's hard work. We don't appreciate how hard they work and how long it takes.

[truedelphi]

42. Also part of PNAC's plan although this was later taken

Out of published writings on the official CIA website
was this bold statement (I'll be paraphrasing) "We need to find a way to
allow for our National Guard to enter the homes of American citizens and
without questioning what the need for this is, to arrst and then to transport
these citizens to detention centers."

[truedelphi]

43. My point being - years of kicking in doors of Iraqi citizens

May well prove to be ample training if after you come back to the USA you are called back into service during martial law

[peacetalksforall]

45. I never knew this. In all this time it's gone over or around my head.

It fits perfectly. They've done it in Iraq, for sure.

Just for one or more minutes, we should concentrate on the people who allow them to reign. The barons, the ceo's and stockholders, their voting base - all those operatives who lie and steal for them - from a buck to a right.

They may have removed it from printed matter, but I feel sure they have not thrown it out as an agenda item.

How do we get all those kids to enforce their power against their peers and parents. They bring in the Chinese? Africans - as George stated - said Africans could be used for armed maintenance in war fighting countriess. My phrasing.

[truedelphi]

46. What's funny is I had imagined this type of thing - Then

the night I found it on the CIA official website I was so shocked
that I failed to download it to my hard drive.

It might still be there somewhere - as a reporter I do go into
the far depths of some web sites - but just as I did not download it,
I also did not keep track of where I had visited it that night.

What they did in Guatemala during the years of death squads there
they'd have Army recruiters go into these desperately poor villages
in The Southern portion of the country and tell everyone there about
the atrocities committed by the "terrorist" Guatemalian young people
in the north - then they would offer anyone who joined the death
squad militias a pair of shoes! If they joined up. To such poor
people, shoes were an undreamt of luxury. So people would join up.
Plus they were led to believe that they would be wiping out the evils
of terrorism.

They did the same thing in reverse in the Northern portions ofthe country.

It's rather hard to get one to arrest and torture one's own immediate neighors.

[bleever]

7. Worth reading the entire piece.

An excerpt:

Bush lives in the fantasy-land of his own narcissistic imagination. He is acting out the adolescent fantasies of a mythic war of good versus evil with our living sons and daughters as his toy soldiers. He is playing out his extreme unconscious dissociation on the world stage, where he is creating unspeakable suffering for millions of people. He is severely deluded and in extreme denial of what is happening in the real, flesh and blood world. As if blind, Bush is not able to see the destruction he is creating for everyone, himself included. If we don’t see Bush’s madness, however, it is we ourselves who are severely deluded and in extreme denial.

Describing this age-old pathology, the great doctor of the soul, C. G. Jung is as if describing our current president when he said, “...they avoid self-criticism to an amazing degree, preach to others, and know nothing of themselves. They are happy to possess no self-knowledge, because then nothing disturbs the rosy glow of illusions.” Jung is describing the pathological state in which someone becomes taken over by their unconscious and lives in a fantasy world of his or her own self-reinforcing delusions. George Bush is embodying and acting out on the world stage the very pathological state that Jung is describing.

Because of his extreme dissociation, Bush has become “inflated” by his unconscious identification with one side of an inherently two-sided polarity, which as any psychologist knows is a sure sign of madness. Overly identified with the light, Bush splits-off from and projects out his own darkness and then, with the greatest war machine the world has ever known, tries to destroy it as it is reflected back by the world. And yet, in the process Bush has unwittingly become possessed by the very darkness he is trying to destroy. Jung pointed out that “Inflation magnifies the blind spot of the eye.... A clear symptom of this is our growing disinclination to take note of the reactions of the environment and pay heed to them.” When someone is inflated, they don’t accept any reflection or feedback from the outside world which contradicts their self-serving delusions and puffed up image of themselves. Instead of being open, receptive, and learning from the outer world, Bush perversely interprets what is happening in the world so as to feed and support his psychosis.

An inflated consciousness, to again quote Jung, “...is incapable of learning from the past, incapable of understanding contemporary events, and incapable of drawing right conclusions about the future. It is hypnotized by itself and therefore cannot be argued with. It inevitably dooms itself to calamities that must strike it dead.” If Jung were alive today, he would not have to change one word to have an exact description of the madness of our current president.

[kpete]

13. thanks for posting

amazing and true!!!

Bush lives in the fantasy-land of his own narcissistic imagination. He is acting out the adolescent fantasies of a mythic war of good versus evil with our living sons and daughters as his toy soldiers.

[bleever]

22. And, as always,

thank you!

[democrank]

8. Take a good look, America.

Bush is a dangerous,delusional bully who has just about ruined this country. Now go shopping.

[bread_and_roses]

9. "Both the Republicans and Democrats are under the control ...

...of the same corrupt corporate and oligarchical powers." That's telling it like it is. And, yes, I speak as one who has worked endless hours to elect Democrats. K&R

[mtnsnake]

10. We have the votes to impeach & if we don't do so, our Party has failed us miserably

Great article. Thank you!

[Greg Helmsley]

11. Actually no

There are still DINOs in the House and they don't wanna repeat the republicans loss because of the Clinton Impeachment. Just being realistic.

[mtnsnake]

19. they don't wanna repeat the republicans loss because of the Clinton Impeachment?

WTF? Winning two consecutive presidential elections following their impeachment of Clinton isn't what I'd call losing.

[smirkymonkey]

12. Hear, hear....

K&R :kick:

[Sapphire Blue]

14. K&R. Read more from Paul Levy here:

Article Library on George W. Bush's Insanity: http://www.awakeninthedream.com/indexx.html

[Torn_Scorned_Ignored]

23. Thanks for the link

he really likes Jung. Me too.

[kpete]

38. adding alot to

collective unconscious - hopefully we will learn something...

[leftofthedial]

15. K&R

we need more people to speak out about this


what IS wrong with Pelosi and the Dems?

especially those who voted for IWR and now want us to believe they were misled. How can they not press for impeachment of the liar who misled them?

[guyton]

18. Gullibility is not a defense for murder

I think the biggest problem with impeachment is that there is plenty of guilt to go around. I think we
need war-crimes trials for everyone that voted for this war.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=2981233

[MasonJar]

16. Contact them constantly. It will help! i finally have a dem repre-

senting me in the House. i worked very hard for him and I intend to keep pushing him. He is by the way quite liberal so I have a voice at last.

[Tommy_J]

17. Very good article! K&R

[Senator]

20. Tell the DCCC >>>>

http://www.dccc.org/100hours/report_card

[MN ChimpH8R]

21. Levy is correct

The Chimpleton is one of the most mentally unbalanced people that has ever led a nation of significance. He is a narcissistic, nearly-pure sociopath with the IQ of the mold growing on the leftover rice in my refrigerator. He is the embodiment of imbecilic malevolence while Shooter and KKKarl are the embodiment of cunning malevolence.

Anyone who runs for the presidency should be required by law to submit to a comprehensive psychiatric examination. Bush never would have made it out of the gate if he had been vetted in such a fashion; he would have been consigned to the rubber walls and massive doses of Thorazine he so badly needs.

[Felinity]

48. Kudos for

"imbecilic malevolence" although I'd hate to think this characterization detracts from his culpability.

? Gleefully engaged imbecilic malevolence?

Just thinking out loud.

[mnhtnbb]

24. Whooee. Bravo to the Baltimore Chronicle for daring to publish this.

[omega minimo]

25. Yup. There's yer problem right there......

"....all we have to do to see it is open our eyes and look at what he is doing."

[CatWoman]

26. OMG!!!

i think I just had an orgasm :7

[Vidar]

27. Right about Bush & Pelosi. Recommended.

[DemReadingDU]

28. Worth reading!

K&R

[Vinca]

29. I hope Pelosi reads this. nt

[conscious evolution]

30. Personally I am for

massive investigations of the bfee and all their minions that enable them.
However,I love seeing articles like this in mainstream newspapers.I think it helps get the idea that something is seriously wrong with our country out to those people that are not as imformed about the curretnt mess as those of us here at DU.
Any article that calls for bushco's impeachment is a good thing.

[mwb970]

31. I agree with every word.

It offends me terribly that my country is led by a man who is obviously mentally ill and who is in addition a complete and total screwup and always has been. We have 300,000,000 people and our collective wisdom is that Bush and Cheney are the two best people to lead us? Was OJ Simpson not available? How about Jessica Simpson? What are we thinking of?

The Constitution requires that an incompetent, incapable president who commits criminal acts be removed from office. We should demand no less from our elected representatives.


edit: typo

[MGKrebs]

32. I've been toying with this theory that Bush would have preferred to lose in 2004.

The NeoCons got their war, Bush got his "War President" label, the basis for a legacy was set. And in BushWorld, that's where the movie ends. The hero shoots up the town, the bad guys die or run offscreen, and the hero looks wistfully at the girl and rides out of town. It's somebody ELSE'S job to clean up the mess.

But the NeoCons couldn't let the Dem's win, so Bush would have to have lost the primary or not run, and that just wasn't going to happen. Part of the reason for that may be that they had created such a religous devotion to Bush in order to defend his absurd behavior that no credible candidate would even throw their hat in the ring.

I think it is plausible that some Repub Party movers and shakers contemplated offering an alternative to Bush, but their prior zealousness in defending him had spawned all these acolyte groups that got so drunk on the Kool Aid that they couldn't stop destroying everything and everyone with any iota of possibility of tarnishing the Bush aura. Like most other forms of fanaticism, things spun out of their control.

Still a work in progress.

[NotGivingUp]

33. Hooray for Paul Levy AND the Baltimore Chronicle!

[opihimoimoi]

35. The man exhibts many many signs of being a Bully, an Abuser, and a malignant narcissisnt

all very bad signs....in short...we have a nutcase leading us....and ya think we would know better.....6 years of failures and death and we let it continue.....

Bush is in love with death and destruction...he is not a BUILDER,,,,does not believe in PEACE, Stability, Joy, etc

He is a PSYCHO.....read Carl Jung, Paul Levy...

[Senator]

36. kick

[CatWoman]

37. nother

:kick:

[truedelphi]

40. These few sentences are really apt for George W

>>"Bush is (mis)leading us off a cliff, taking our nation down an infernal road of self-destruction. At this point only people who are blind do not see this. We simply cannot passively stand by watching this madness play out for the next two years, just impotently waiting for when Bush’s term is up."

Just this week, we have him telling the Park Service not to discuss the age of the National Paks land.

Then he DOES not attend FOrd's funeral - WTF he is the representative of the American People and whether he liked Ford or not, his job demands that he attend

[truedelphi]

41. Is this an op ed piece or an editorial? n/t

[seesdifferent]

44. WaPo story tries to make Bush a humanitarian

"Bush quietly triples aid to Africa."

I don't know why the Washington Post prints this kind of poorly researched and misleading puff pieces that clearly originate in the WH or the GOP. It's a disgrace to journalism and an embarassment to the traditions of the Post, imho.
My analysis is here:
http://seesdifferent.wordpress.com/2006/12/31/wapo-bush-has-tripled-aid-to-africa-not-so-much/

[truedelphi]

47. Well done on the critique - thanks

Unfortunately the Far Right has dozens if not hundreds of studies that
"prove" how well abstinence works - and of course, lying for God being
something these RW pervs do all so well, it doesn't quite matter to them
that the studies are wrong (I would grant that they are right in theory -
after all you don't get pregnant or contract AIDS ifyou abstain from
sex, but young people only need one "slip" to undo the results of weeks
if not months of going without sex)

[bobthedrummer]

49. They've got to GO. kick

[kentuck]

50. Some folks probably thought the same about Hitler.....

That he was morally bankrupt and criminally insane? So why didn't they get rid of him? Because so long as there are enough supporters behind him, it is not possible to convince enough people of the insanity of their leader. They will never believe it. He is a great leader, they will say. You are only his political enemy. They will never believe otherwise.

[Gregorian]

51. Remember, Bush is just one tooth of the republican gear.

And Jeb is no better.

It didn't take a phd to know that Bush was this way. He got elected through mass media lies, and electronic machine fraud.

Bush is not acting alone. We have to remember that, even though Bush is a republican mistake, he is part of a massive concerted effort which began with repealing of the Fairness Doctrine, and impeaching a great president for a nonimpeachable offense.


This is great stuff to see in news print. Now let's get the trash out of our White House.