By Igor Volsky on BodyPolitik.org
In this week’s New Yorker, investigative reporter Seymour Hersh writes that there has been “a significant increase in the tempo of attack planning” for war with Iran inside the Bush administration. Hersh reported that the administration has shifted focus “from a broad bombing attack against Iran’s nuclear facilities to “surgical” strikes again Revolutionary Guard Corps facilities in Tehran and elsewhere."
Today, in an interview with journalist Jon Wiener, Hersh suggested that “the president is essentially messianic” about regime change in Iran.
He sees this as his mission. It could be because God is telling him to do it. It could be because his daddy didn’t do it. It could be because it’s step 13 in a 12-step program he was in. I just don’t know.”
Hersh may be on to something. In 2005, the Guardian reported that “Bush has claimed he was on a mission from God when he launched the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, according to a senior Palestinian politician.” According to the Palestinian source Bush said:
‘I am driven with a mission from God’. God would tell me, ‘George go and fight these terrorists in Afghanistan’. And I did. And then God would tell me ‘George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq’. And I did. And now, again, I feel God’s words coming to me, ‘Go get the Palestinians their state and get the Israelis their security, and get peace in the Middle East’. And, by God, I’m gonna do it.
Mike Rivero's take:
Sorry, but anyone "hearing voices in their head" needs immediate medical and psychiatric attention.
And they should absolutely not have the "nuclear football anywhere under their control.
The problem for the US right now is this.
Even if the congress collectively had the "male attributes to invoke the 25th Amendment on the president, the vice-president who would replace him wouldn't hesitate using nukes on Iran.
This is but not because of any religious convictions, but simply if such an attack it makes great financial sense for the companies with which he is still afiliated..
When you talk to God, that's prayer.
When God talks back, that's schizophrenia.
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