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Bush's Obscene Tirades Rattle White House Aides
By DOUG THOMPSON
Aug 25, 2005, 06:19
While President George W. Bush travels around the country in a
last-ditch effort to sell his Iraq war, White House aides scramble
frantically behind the scenes to hide the dark mood of an increasingly
angry leader who unleashes obscenity-filled outbursts at anyone who
dares disagree with him.
"I'm not meeting again with that goddamned *****," Bush screamed
at aides who suggested he meet again with Cindy Sheehan, the
war-protesting mother whose son died in Iraq. "She can go to hell as
far as I'm concerned!"
Bush, administration aides confide, frequently explodes into tirades
over those who protest the war, calling them "motherfucking
traitors." He reportedly was so upset over Veterans of Foreign Wars
members who wore "***** protectors" over their ears during his
speech to their annual convention that he told aides to "tell those
VFW assholes that I'll never speak to them again is they can't keep
their members under control."
White House insiders say Bush is growing increasingly bitter over
mounting opposition to his war in Iraq. Polls show a vast majority of
Americans now believe the war was a mistake and most doubt the
President's honesty.
"Who gives a flying ***** what the polls say," he screamed at a
recent strategy meeting. "I'm the President and I'll do whatever
I goddamned please. They don't know *****."
Bush, whiles setting up for a photo op for signing the recent CAFTA
bill, flipped an extended middle finger to reporters. Aides say the
President often "flips the bird" to show his displeasure and tells
aides who disagree with him to "go to hell" or to "go *****
yourself." His habit of giving people the finger goes back to his
days as Texas governor, aides admit, and videos of him doing so before
press conferences were widely circulated among TV stations during those
days. A recent video showing him shooting the finger to reporters while
walking also recently surfaced.
Bush's behavior, according to prominent Washington psychiatrist, Dr.
Justin Frank, author of "Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the
President," is all too typical of an alcohol-abusing bully who is
ruled by fear.
To see that fear emerges, Dr. Frank says, all one has to do is confront
the President. "To actually directly confront him in a clear way, to
bring him out, so you would really see the bully, and you would also
see the fear," he says.
Dr. Frank, in his book, speculates that Bush, an alcoholic who brags
that he gave up booze without help from groups like Alcoholics
Anonymous, may be drinking again.
"Two questions that the press seems particularly determined to ignore
have hung silently in the air since before Bush took office," Dr.
Frank says. "Is he still drinking? And if not, is he impaired by all
the years he did spend drinking? Both questions need to be addressed in
any serious assessment of his psychological state."
Last year, Capitol Hill Blue learned the White House physician
prescribed anti-depressant drugs for the President to control what
aides called "violent mood swings." As Dr. Frank also notes: "In
writing about Bush's halting appearance in a press conference just
before the start of the Iraq War, Washington Post media critic Tom
Shales speculated that 'the president may have been ever so slightly
medicated.'"
Dr. Frank explains Bush's behavior as all-to-typical of an alcoholic
who is still in denial:
"The pattern of blame and denial, which recovering alcoholics work so
hard to break, seems to be ingrained in the alcoholic personality; it's
rarely limited to his or her drinking," he says. "The habit of
placing blame and denying responsibility is so prevalent in George W.
Bush's personal history that it is apparently triggered by even the
mildest threat."
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"God speaks through me." - George W. Bush, Lancaster, PA, July 9, 2004
"There's Adam Clymer -- major league ***** -- from the New York
Times." - George W. Bush, Naperville, Ill., September 4, 2000
FINK: When you're talking about politics, what do you and [your father]
talk about?
BUSH: *****.
-- Interview with David Fink of the Hartford Courant at the Republican
Convention, 1988
In 1987 at a Dallas restaurant, Bush approached a table occupied by Al
Hunt, of The Wall Street Journal, Judy Woodruff, of CNN, and their
four-year-old son, and burst out with, "You no good fucking
sonofabitch, I will never forget what you wrote!" Hunt had omitted the
name of Bush's father from a list of possible presidential candidates
he had sent in to Washingtonian magazine-because Vice President Bush
had yet to declare his candidacy.
-- The Atlantic Monthly, September 6, 2001
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