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January,
2004
Bush's Philosophers Pt. II: Why Bipolar Psychopaths Are
Running The Show
By Stephen Simac
In "Bubba Bush, Philosopher King" (Coastal Post Sept.
2003) the soprano chorus of voices in King Georgie's head were examined. The
Pipes of the neo-conservative cabal, a virulent strain of weaponized political
philosophers advising Bush, were traced to their sources.
The neo-con coronavirus is an avian flu jumping to Americans
from Chicken Hawks. These are warmongers who've never served in the military
and have no children in it, just like the top roosters, Dick "Other
Priorities" Cheney and George "aWol" Bush. The neocons inserted
themselves into the cellular DNA of the GOP, overwhelming the
Reagan/Goldwaterish, paleo-conservatives' immune system.
The etiology of the neos show their virulence stems from a
double barreled influenza. Some writers and talking heads like Irving Kristol
and Norman Podhoretz were Trotskyites in their youth. They still cough up that
bolshevite's tenets of Permanent Revolution and Infiltrate and Subvert in their
Reviews, Journals and on Fox TV talk shows.
Others, like Paul Wolfowitz and members of Donald Rumsfeld's
staff, sneeze out the philosophy of Leo Strauss. Strauss was a German emigree
who taught at the New School for Social Research in NYC, then the University of
Chicago. Both these institutions are funded by Rockefeller Oil fortune
monies. Although Strauss claimed to
gain his wisdom from reading between the lines of Plato, his political
philosophy is pure Niccolo Machiavelli, an Italian who wrote The Prince. (A
report on the methods used by Cesare Borgia, a Renaissance fiend and son of the
Pope, in his rise to power using the Vatican's armies.)
Strauss's viral meme is filtered from philosopher Georg Hegel's
concept that the intellectual is the Lord of History. Hegel's grand opus was
that a Dialectic between Thesis and it's Opposite- Antithesis, battle through
History, rocking between them as they move towards Synthesis, which then
becomes Thesis. This historical contraption can then be steered by controlling
both sides of their endless Dispute. Strauss taught that if necessary,
political philosophers must lie to the people, even their leaders, to achieve
their ultimate goals.
Strauss cloaked this infection in the high minded phrase of
"for the greater good." It's typical when political philosophers
plant themselves on higher moral grounds that they're only staking out a prime
lot on Hypocrisy Hill.
I Write The Songs
The Neo-Conservatives are like weaponized anthrax. Their talking
heads float on the airwaves like genetically modified spores that turn people
into frightened sheep with scrapie. Their refrains are like a Barry Manilow
song you can't get out of your head. They spin like driedels about the War on
Terrorism, the War on Iraq, the Fears Out There and Keeping the Homeland Safe.
Bush will get rid of Bad Men, and bring Good Things to LifeÉ Freedom, even if
Messy, Democracy, Liberation, that kind of Stuff.
Their Ultimate Goals. Military occupation in the heart of the
world's oil reserves to control it. Carve up Iraq up into a hundred tribal
slivers all fighting each other for control. Use up the Old and Test the New
Military Hardware. Protect Israel's flanks.
The plans for the War on Iraq and beyond began to be plotted by
the neocons after the elder Bush left Hussein in power as a counterbalance to
Iran. They've been brooding and clucking about the need to invade Iraq and take
out Saddam for the last decade until younger Bush was appointed president and they
wormed into power.
In 1996 Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith, and David
Wurmser from the Institute for Advanced Strategies and Political Studies
(IASPS) wrote an advisory paper called "A New Strategy for Securing the
Realm, A Clean Break", for Benyamin Netanyahu when he was prime minister
of Israel. Their Clean Break scheme was to "roll back" the Middle
Eastern states of Iraq, Iran, Syria and others from nations into tribal
fiefdoms, "by proxy" if possible, to protect Israel. These IASPS are
now all top aides or advisors to Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney.
Some of them were involved in a policy paper in the spring of
2001 by the Project for A New American, another neo-conservative think
tank.
PNAC wrote it for VP Dick Cheney, SecDef Donald Rumsfeld, Paul
Wolfowitz, deputy for Rumsfeld, Lewis Libby, chief of staff for Cheney and Jeb
"Faithful Bro" Bush.
Could Be Magic
This paper called for "a substantial American force
presence in the Gulf", permanently in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. It
positioned Iraq, Iran, Syria, North Korea and China as the next big threats. It
called for US total control of space, cyberspace and development of mini-nukes
and genotype specific biological weapons. Your basic megalomaniacal plan for
world dominance laid out for the neo Me's and miniMe's.
Just as the plan to invade Afghanistan and make it safe for a
Unocal oil pipeline to an Enron gas powered plant in India was hatched long
before 9/11/01, so was the War on Iraq. Wolfowitz and Rumsfield started calling
for an invasion of Iraq within days of the Attacks. Fraudulent Reasons to be
developed later. Rummy's secretive Defense Policy Board, the Pentagon's Office
of Special Plans and Cheney's Team B began winding up the alarms for a War on
Iraq soon after The Attack on America. The DPB was headed at the time by
Richard "Conflicts of Interests" Perle. He's resigned as chairman,
but is still a board member as is another august philosopher. Dan Quayle. The
DPB began foaming at the mouth about "regime change" in Iraq in the
fall of 2001.
Team B was established by Douglas Feith, aide to Cheney shortly
after 9/11. A two man analysis cell of
David Wurmser, also a Cheney aide and Michael Maloof was formed to manufacture
a paper web of evidence against Saddam to prove his Dangers to America.
Paper bridges that have now burnt behind them. Maloof has
reportedly been placed on administrative leave for leaking information about
the War on Iraq to Israel, according to Jeffrey Steinberg on sf.indymedia.com.
Wurmser may yet worm his way out of the toasted tissue of claims in their Scare
Americans to War Syndrome. Team B's lies to support an illegal invasion of Iraq
further weakens the flanks of "Undisclosed Location" Cheney, who is
already being strangled by his Halliburton Ties.
Bandstand Boggie
The neocon plot is still winding out as their newshounds are
baying for Bush to get tough with the madmen of Syria and Iran, don't forget
treacherous Saudi Arabia and Libya. Crafty Khadaffi didn't like the looks of
Saddam's Spider Hole and gave up his WMD, which he didn't have anyways. Iran is
bringing in the UN inspectors, as if that helped Saddam.
W is not as stupid as he sounds, but he is an amoral psychotic
mass murderer just like his Daddy. It's in the gene structure or something.
Poppy and Barb regularly call Georgie to ask about the twins, if he's seen ole'
Kenny Boy lately, laugh about how much easier Noriega was to trap in the
Vatican's Safe House, and whatever happened to Osama's brothers. But the real
family secrets only come out when they're shooting quail.
Poppy has warned him about the viperous, Zionist neo-cons and
how they'll bite you in the ass over Israel. W. is naturally wary about the
nest of neo con asps whispering in his ear. He's looking at Cheney and seeing
only a millstone around his campaign's neck.
Copacabana
He's much more trusting of another loud voice in his head, Karl
Rove. Rove is Georgie's primary political strategist. Rove's philosophy is tell
Voters what they want to hear, and do what thou wilt. His words are like Humpty
Dumpty's. They mean whatever he wants them to mean.
Rove crafted Bush's 2000 presidential campaign that took the
crown away from Gore 5-4. He showed a flair for dirty tricks in 1972 when he
ran Michigan's Nixon campaign. He learned from Donald Segretti, Nixon's Dirty
Tricks Meister. Rove has only gotten slicker, a real Lee Atwater.
Rove's telephone whispering campaign about John McCain's
illegitimate black child before South Carolina's 2000 primary took Mcain right
out of the race for Republican candidate for President. Only Strom Thurmond
could get away with that in South Carolina.
Rove has psychologists testing out words in Malls across the
country to determine which ones resonate most positively or negatively in
Americans psyches. Fear Words like Terrorism, Bad Men, Infection are potent
stimulants that charge people up, like a Slasher Flick. Words like Safer,
Cleaner, Healthier, Balanced, Fair calm their Fears like a romantic Chick
Flick. Rove wants Republicans to attack and soothe the psyches of voters with
simple, repetitive, symbolically resonant words to play the public like an
organ.
Donald Rumsfeld, head of Department of Defense for W was also
secretary of Defense for Tricky Dick Nixon's administration. Rummy made Cheney
his chief of staff during the Nixon Administration. Rummy is like an irascible
grandpa in a manic episode, telling everyone in the room to just shut up and
listen.
He is psychologically incapable of sticking with Rove's Meat
Loaf Special of Orwellian Newspeak words.
"Ultimate," B.M.
Rummy spends most mornings creating a blizzard of
"snowflakes", RummyGram memos to his staff in the DOD. His staff was
so busy "slogging'" through the Q word of his "brilliant
ideas" that they could only plan for the invasion of Iraq, not the
aftermath. They walked American Soldiers into a quagmire that will only get
worse by election day, 2004.
Even after Saddam turned up, secured in a locked cave. Looking like Jerry Garcia is alive, after
all. Hussein will 'fess up once we get him on his meds, although he looked
pretty tranquilized coming out of his "spider hole", getting his nits
picked and teeth checked. And his free checkup only cost $160 Billion, less
than Free Meds for a whole generation of Medicare voters.
Rummy, however just won't stay on his meds. He has the typical
emotional swings of a classic Bi-Polar Disorder. He veers from delusional
grandiosity about a unipolar World and military spending sprees to seeing only
potential catastrophes on the horizon. Most of Bush's advisors could be fit
into this DSM category, some with Psychotic features.
It's no secret that the incidence of BiPolar Disorder, or at
least its diagnosis has increased dramatically in the last decade. At least
some of that is probably from treating a whole generation of American children
with amphetamine based drugs because they have been diagnosed with Attention
Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder in their schools. These drugs have been
proven to damage the brain's response to Serotonin, a neurohormone linked with
deep depression. Psychiatrists are diagnosing many ADHD children as flowering
into full blown BiPolars as adults.
It's a perfect mental illness for a politician or a political
philosopher. During the manic phase you can raise and spend tons of money or
write policy papers. Voters love empty promises, and pens for hire are always
in demand.
The Depressive phase comes in handy after the lost election or
for dreaming up dark futures to protect against. If the voters or foundation
funders believe you are protecting and serving their interests, they'll show
their appreciation no matter how nuts you are.