Stoopid Stuff

President GW Bush, Our Homicidal Maniac in Chief

The list of crimes, ethical transgressions and simple dishonesty of George W. Bush is as long as his public history. His business failures have been well documented, but at least it was just his friends, relatives and investors that suffered from his arrogance and incompetence. His political life has been marked by a Karl Rove influenced "anything goes" approach to political operations that included lying to discredit those that would challenge him. He used his family's political connections to steal a presidential election in 2000. In the White House, he has shown an absolute and unshakable unwillingness to ever admit that anything he has ever done was wrong, or even questionable. But if you look at it from a slightly different angle, his public record shows another, more disturbing behavior trend. A growing and insatiable blood lust, a love, probably sexual in nature, for killing, torture and mayhem. And he doesn't seem to be overly concerned who suffers for his personal gratification--Americans, Iraqis, Afghans, Women, Children--It all seems equivalent to him.

While governor of Texas, George W. Bush presided over the execution of 152 human beings. That's more than any other governor in modern times. One can imagine how this incredible power of life and death played against a long developed latent sadism and tendency towards sociopathic behavior. Serial killers are notable for their complete lack of empathy. Their victims are not seen as equal beings, but rather something put there for their pleasure, to be used and thrown away. We see those same behaviors in our President. At no time while he had this awesome power did he ever make any effort to actually consider the issues when presented with 152 death warrants, he only knew the rush he got when he would take the clemency form and check the "Deny" box.

So Bush came to power in Washington with a new, strong lust for inflicting pain and death for his own personal satisfaction. But now he had the most lethal military force in the world, including a highly advanced Special Operations capability with which he could selectively take lives. Now, in the last 3 years, he has started two wars, and used his "War on Terrah" as an excuse to take who knows how many lives worldwide. In hindsight, it is obvious that this lamentable man-child, this irresponsible, unaccountable beast with a lust for creating human suffering, lacked the mental stability and discipline to be president of the corner convenience store, let alone the United States of America.

And isn't it interesting how his odd, seeming un-natural and politically tone-deaf attachment to torture plays right into this same dangerous, serial-killer like dysfunction? How much would you bet that in that drawer in the oval office next to Saddam's gun, there are photos from Bagram, Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, much worse than anything we have seen? How often does he take them out, looking through the stack slowly, with sweating hands, reliving the blood and pain, like a killer going through his trophies.

Now for the most sobering thought. One thing that sexually sadistic psychopaths, serial killers and rapists, and those of similar ilk, have in common is their tendency to increase the frequency, savagery, brutality and anger in their attacks as time passes. First, there are months or even years between attacks, as the memory is enough to excite them. But as time passes, the memory serves them less well, and they need to kill more, and more often to attain the same gratification. Eventually, they begin to break down, "disassociate" the head shrinkers call it, and lose all control. How does this little nugget of knowledge affect us, you ask? Well, the killing in Iraq is steady, but unspectacular. It can be in no way as satisfying as the "Thunder Run" from April of 2003, when American armored forces shot their way into Baghdad, a city of 8 million souls, under air and artillery cover. The blood, death and suffering of that week is almost unimaginable. It's more than likely that Bush is getting itchy, wanting to inflict more bloodshed, torture and pain. Another war or two will cripple the United States militarily, economically and even destroy our standing in the world. And yet, for George Bush, it's only a matter of feeding the lust burning in his heart. Who knows, he may privately have set a goal, like taking a quarter of a million lives before retiring to his ranch in Texas. Whereupon I would recommend digging up the pasture to find the bodies he will have buried there by then.

posted by mikey @ 5:46 PM