The UN, US and Iraq IV

Gelisgesti wrote:

What luck for rulers that men do not think.
Adolf Hitler

I'll just throw out Adolf Hitler's name, because in my mind once I do that, it is the end all-be all to any argument, and it absolves me of any further thinking or reasoning beyond my narrow scope, because I am man therefor I do not think.

Gelisgeti

Why don't you blame the bombers and murderers for Istanbul, Turkey...?
You act as though terrorists weren't already having a hey day globally, before Bush arrived on the scene. Now that he is addressing them and their thuggery, you want to shift blame for what they do to Bush...?

You must know I meant you, Sofia. Your arguments are wearing thin. Blatham has the good grace to present facts and explanations; you're just clinging to the edge of an eroding cliff.

Watch very closely, at no time do my hands leave my arms!
Abracabra ....... nope still a coke sniffin alchy

May 9, 2003
G.W. Bush:
Drunk on Power

by SAM HAMOD and ELAINE CASSEL

The president he got his wars
folks don't know just what it's for;
No one gives us a rhyme or reason
have one doubt they call it treason.

Eugene McDaniels
"Compared to What?"


An addicted brain is a changed brain. When you ingest a substance like alcohol, cocaine, or nicotine, your brain recognizes those substances as dopamine. These substances "bind" to dopamine receptors in the brain. Dopamine is also released every time you do something pleasurable. But you get your dopamine kicks, so to speak, in a different way from your friend. Your friend may get a jolt from winning a tennis match; you might get it from accomplishing some task at the office.

Dopamine is the brain chemical (neurochemical) that produces the "high," the sense of satisfaction and well-being that you think came from the alcohol or the pleasurable activity. The little-known secret, demonstrated amply by recent neuroscience, is that that "feel-good" state actually arises from the dopamine. The person continues to use the substance because he is trying to feel normal. But he (or she) cannot feel normal without the substance-or a substitute. That is why people recovering from one substance addiction often choose a substitute-recovering alcoholics are notorious smokers, for instance. They are replacing alcohol with nicotine, because nicotine also binds to the brain's dopamine receptors. But the more they do it, the more they have to do it. Why? To try to feel normal. The brain is not making the stuff anymore, or making little of it, and they have to help it along by continuing substance use or activities that cause great pleasure.

What does this explanation of the brain's dopamine system have to do with President G.W. Bush?

George Bush is an alcoholic. Once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic, according to neuroscientists. Bush's brain was changed by his substance use. And his brain did not return to its "normal" or predrinking state after he stopped drinking. Proof positive of that is that he is showing signs of a new addiction-an addiction to power. (See Katherine Van Wormer's prescient piece in CounterPunch: Dry Drunk Syndrome and George W. Bush, from October, 2002.)

He has gone from being a drunk, to being drunk on power. Iraq, rather than cooling his addiction, fueled it. As he said on the aircraft carrier, Abraham Lincoln, off the "perilous" coast of San Diego, "This is but ONE victory." He implied there will be more victories; thus, he will need more conquests to feed this new addiction to power.

Try to get your noggin' around this one, blatham.
You've been pantsed twice. Pure and simple.
Trot out some integrity, and cop to it. Chuckle and pull your pants up.

Bush has attended services.
DiIulio's piece could be used as PR copy. The title could be:
Bush is incredibly good, but not perfect.