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>From Capitol Hill Blue Bush Leagues 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. ³I¹m not meeting again with that goddamned bitch,² Bush screamed at aides who suggested he meet again with Cindy Sheehan, the war-protesting mother whose son died in Iraq. ³She can go to hell as far as I¹m concerned!² Bush flashes the bird, something aides say he does often and has been doing since his days as governor of Texas. Bush, administration aides confide, frequently explodes into tirades over those who protest the war, calling them ³motherfucking traitors.² He reportedly was so upset over Veterans of Foreign Wars members who wore ³bullshit protectors² over their ears during his speech to their annual convention that he told aides to ³tell those VFW assholes that I¹ll never speak to them again if they can¹t keep their members under control.² 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 President¹s honesty. ³Who gives a flying fuck what the polls say,² he screamed at a recent strategy meeting. ³I¹m the President and I¹ll do whatever I goddamned please. They don¹t know shit.² Bush, while setting up for a photo op for signing the recent CAFTA bill, flipped an extended middle finger to reporters. Aides say the President often ³flips the bird² to show his displeasure and tells aides who disagree with him to ³go to hell² or to ³go fuck yourself.² 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. Bush¹s behavior, according to prominent Washington psychiatrist, Dr. Justin Frank, author of ³Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President,² 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. ³To 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,² 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. ³Two questions that the press seems particularly determined to ignore have hung silently in the air since before Bush took office,² Dr. Frank says. ³Is 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.² Last year, Capitol Hill Blue learned the White House physician prescribed anti-depressant drugs for the President to control what aides called ³violent mood swings.² As Dr. Frank also notes: ³In 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.¹² Dr. Frank explains Bush¹s behavior as all-to-typical of an alcoholic who is still in denial: ³The 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,² he says. ³The 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.² © Copyright 2005 Capitol Hill Blue Fair Use Notice This site may contain copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of political, human rights, economic, democracy, and social justice issues, etc. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml. 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