Re: [UC] Fw: [DFA-NorCal] Bush's Erratic Behavior Worries White House Aides

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In a message dated 6/6/2004 3:18:42 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Remember, we did not invent the concept "kill'em all, let God sort'em out." Actually, this famous phrase supposedly originated during the Albigensian Crusade, when Pope Innocent III called for the extermination of the Cathars, a heretical Christian group in the south of France.   "On the afternoon of 22 July, the town launched a sortie which, when forced back into the town, was closely persued by a band of the crusaders. Once inside the walls of the town, the crusaders seized B�ziers within an hour. Immediately there began a mass slaughter of Catholics and Cathars, alike. When asked by one of the crusader warriors about the possible killing of Catholics along with the heretic Cathars, Arnaud-Amaury is supposed to have delivered his nefarious statement "Kill them all! God will recognize His own!" Accounts vary as to the numbered slaughtered (10,000 to 20,000, with just over 200 estimated to have been Cathars) in this, the bloodiest and first, battle of the crusade. The massacre frightened many other towns to surrender without resistance."    Read all about it at http://xenophongroup.com/montjoie/albigens.htm#first   But I don't quite see the applicability of Craig's comment to the issue of Bush's erratic behavior. While it is true that he is, temporarily, the only President we have, he is notoriously an alcoholic (remember, there is no such thing as a "former" alcoholic) and former cocaine abuser, and it is interesting to speculate how he will melt down under the crushing pressure of world opinion and the spontaneous combustion of his government, beginning with Tenet. The sooner he self-destructs, the better for all concerned. In this regard, it is instructive to read the transcripts of the recently released Kissinger tapes, in which for example Kissinger talks to Douglas Haig about the fact that the President is "loaded" and thus unable to return a phone call from Prime Minister Heath during the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, a major international crisis which might have led to a nuclear war.   Also, it might pay everyone who has commented on this article to study even briefly the website "Capitol Hill Blues". It is not in any sense a satirical site, like the nefarious www.deadbrain.com.     Ross Bender http://rossbender.org