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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 bitch,” 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 “bullshit 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 fuck 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 shit.”

 

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 fuck 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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