thinkprogress.org — Today in his press conference, a reporter asked President Bush why he is ?so resistant? to a ?change of course in Iraq,? even though that?s what the American public is ?clamoring for.? Bush dismissed the reporter?s question, saying the public's criticisms are merely ?war fatigue.? "It?s affecting our psychology," he said.
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I never ever knew America was full of so many pussies. It's embarrassing.
perrymasonJul 13, 2007
Love,The people of the World
nonzionistJul 13, 2007
The "civilizational conflict" exists WITHIN OURSELVES!In America, we have TWO civilizations, not one. The first is based on reciprocity, the Golden Rule, human dignity, national sovereignty and our founding principles, e.g., "All men are created equal". The second, promoted by the Zionists and the "Skull and Bones" Establishment, rests on a fascistic self-destructive master/slave ideology -- "might makes right", "kill and be killed". The second "civilization" sustains itself on fear and hatred -- the master-race must fear the slaves, Jews must fear non-Jews, Americans must fear OTHERS (Chinese, Russians, Iraqis, Cubans, French, etc..). Synthetic fear quickly becomes an addiction: The fear-drug adds a veneer of "purpose" and "significance" to a meaningless self-hating existence. Like the paranoid, we delude ourselves into thinking that the whole world "Hates" us ("for our Freedom", or for no reason at all!). Thus we put ourselves in the center of the world and make ourselves seem "Important". In imagined "Hate", we find vindication and escape from responsibility. We become free to KILL, free to WIPE OUT whole countries.Fear is the drug and war is the high. Our self-defeating behavior leads to an exciting genocidal orgy of death and destruction that leaves us feeling "Vindicated". We go down in a blaze of self-pitying glory, corpses stretching to the horizon. Triumph at last!This is the dynamic that drives the neo-con. Underneath his hatred for the "Other", of course, lies an even greater hatred for self. He cannot face the man in the mirror, so he takes refuge in the predatory war-crazed collective. All of this death and destruction is needless, obviously -- as needless as the slaughter that occurred in Europe sixty-five years ago. There is an alternative: the FIRST civilization, the one that our naive cynicism has led us to dismiss. In fact, the FIRST civilization -- based on reciprocity and equality -- is the ONLY one that has a chance of working. And it HAS worked, to a large extent, here in America. There is no way that Palestinians or any other group can or should be expected to accept subhuman "untermenschen" status: the master-slave ideology cannot possibly work! So the question then is "How long will we continue to cling to this failed master/slave ideology?" How soon can we recover the will to live and CO-exist with our fellow human beings? <a class="user" href="http://www.counterpunch.com/walsh09122006.html">http://www.counterpunch.com/walsh09122006.html</a> -- Civilizations: Huntington's Clash or Khatami's Dialogue?
nonzionistJul 13, 2007
<a class="user" href="http://digg.com/political_opinion/Bush_Dismisses_Iraq_Critics_War_Fatigue_Is_Affecting_Their_Psychology?t=7752973#c7780370">http://digg.com/political_opinion/Bush_Dismisses_Iraq_Critics_War_Fatigue_Is_Affecting_Their_Psychology?t=7752973#c7780370</a> -- Evil Empire hates us for our freedom
jimvspekJul 15, 2007
Here is the real reason we went into Iraq and eliminated Saddam Hussein and why we are not being told about it.After 9/11 our greatest enemy was recognized as being radical Sunni Islam. Most of the 9/11 terrorists came from Saudi Arabia and were adherents to the violent and intolerant Wahhabiism teachings. Saudi Arabia has been actively involved in exporting this ideology around the world using oil money generated within that state.This created a serious problem. We could not turn on our Saudi “friends” and there was not an easy way to attack the widely disbursed Sunni radicals. A creative response was needed. Much of foreign policy is built on the time-tested principles of “divide and conquer” and “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” To turn these principles into strategies, it was necessary to find a group, which was a natural enemy of the Sunni radicals. The obvious choice for this is the moderate Shiites who have their spiritual center in Iraq. An added reason for supporting these moderates is that they are not in line with the radical Shiites who now control the government of Iran. The installation of a moderate Shiite regime in Iraq would have the double benefit of becoming a thorn in the sides of both Iran and Saudi Arabia, Of course, the best way to help the moderate Shiites was to take out their nemesis, Saddam Hussein, who had for many years stood as the bulwark against the hated forces of Shia. He had ruthlessly persecuted the Shiites in Iraq and mounted a lengthy and bloody war against Iran. The Sunni Muslims could ignore the Shiites, many of whom lived in their midst, because Saddam was holding them at bay.Saddam had at one time been a close ally of the US, which was instrumental in bringing him to power and supplied him with armaments. Why did he turn against us? Remember “Iran-Contra?” Saddam was incensed when he found out that we were secretly funding and arming Iran in their fight with us. It became clear to him that all along, it has been our policy to contain his power. Research this strange episode and you will find commentators mystified as to the reasons behind it. No one states the obvious. We wanted to help Iran but needed to keep it a secret. VP Bush was the mastermind and even then we were playing the Sunni/Shia division. I am convinced that the real reason we invaded Iraq, eliminated the Baath regime and abandoned our bases in Saudi Arabia is that we wanted to strengthen the power of the moderate Shiites in the region. At this time both sides hate us but also need us as they fight each other. The Bush administration constantly boasts that the proof for the success of our policies is that there have not been any attacks on our soil. Al Quaeda and the radical Sunnis are now concentrating their fury on the newly invigorated Shiite regime taking shape in Iraq. If it all turns out as we hope, the Shiites will be a major counterforce against radical Sunnis and the radical Shiites in Iran.The nice thing about this theory is that it challenges the accepted wisdom that Bush and his cohorts were naïve in trying to set up a democracy in Iraq. This could never have been our goal. We are leaving the country a mess, but the radical Sunnis now have their traditional enemies to occupy them instead of us.Even if the civil war in Iraq drags on with more violence or we are asked to leave, we will still have accomplished our primary goal of striking a blow against our most bitter enemy, radical Sunni Islam, and turned their attention to those whom they hate more than us. Having Saudi Sunnis in a dominant position as they coddle and export the virulent versions of their faith has not been healthy for the world or the Mideast region.Time will tell if this has been a wise policy. Involving ourselves in the Mideast can have unforeseen consequences. Consider the bitter harvest we have reaped as a result of our support for the Mujadeen in Afghanistan. The ones we built up for that struggle are the same ones who turned on us later. On the other hand, if we accept this theory as the true rationale for our involvement in Iraq, it provides a much more reasonable explanation as to why we went in. It is certainly more credible than the official line that we embarked on this mission with the quixotic rationale of installing democracy in Iraq. That idea never did make sense and in my view was a mere pretense for the true, Machiavellian purposes laid out above. Unfortunately, if this is what we did, our government can never openly express it. Instead, we are left to merely observe and appreciate or dread the outcomes.
belxulJul 20, 2007
I call bulls**t. I'm not suffering from 'war fatigue' and I've been against this whole idea since Iraq was first brought up in late 2002. I told people that Iraq did not have the capacity to pull off what the administration claimed and I was told to go put on my tin foil hat. Losers.
kellenvhOct 29, 2008
Oh my gosh. If any human on this planet is not qualified to comment on psychology is would be this anencephalic twit.