Bush Into the Pit of Insanity

Published: Monday, December 12, 2005
Bylined to: Dr. John Bomar


Bush's downward spiral into the dark pit of insanity and self-destruction

VHeadline.com guest commentarist Dr. John Bomar writes: The Bush administration’s disconnect from the reality of life on the ground in Iraq is proving to have potentially disastrous consequence. Iraqi’s now sees the continued occupation by US troops as the prime cause for the insurgency and popular support for the US to begin a pullout is overwhelming.



Bush’s use of the term “terrorists” to describe the insurgency is only an attempt at face saving to give continued justification for the invasion and American presence.

Having blundered into Iraq on false pretext, Bush now grasps at the last straw for any legitimacy to his misguided aggression.
The problem is that the attempted rationalization is paid for in terms of carnage, treasure and lives and limbs lost.

Bush says we have to stay in order to insure “victory” and a stable Iraq. Much of the rest of the world, and those on the ground in Iraq, meanwhile, say that our continued presence is the destabilizing factor. If the critics are indeed correct; that our continued presence only feeds the insurgency and its blood lust for revenge, then what we have now in Iraq is a classic positive feed-back loop of pathology: as the condition worsens, adverse change occurs to worsen the condition.

Bush uses the continued hostilities as rationale for keeping our troops in Iraq, while staying there increases hostility and aggression toward our troops ... which Mr. Bush then uses as rationalization for…

It is a downward spiral into the dark pit of insanity and self-destruction.

Those with the most direct experience: those who have walked the streets and lived the Iraqi experience for the last three years know the truth of the insurgent’s motives. Theirs is an age old resistance to outside occupation by foreign forces that has fervent nationalism at its heart, now exacerbated by a blood oath of revenge for lost loved ones.

Safely ensconced half a world away, Bush and the neoconservatives, complicit with other leaders who make two and three day “fact finding missions” to Iraq, never daring to stray from bunkers and “safe” zones, argue for “staying the course.”



Which of the two arguments seem to have the most logic based on the reality in Iraq, those from the battleground or those from official Washington?

Ego dominant neurosis is the inability to admit to mistake or to acknowledge a reality other than one’s own perceptions. Self-talk in such circumstance, exacerbated by a small group of “yes” men in a circle, often leads to delusion. It is one thing in an individual, it is quite another when carried out on a grand scale during wartime.

Basing foreign policy and war making on delusions and presumptive speculation, rather than the reality as demonstrated on the ground is what has led many a great nation to ruin.
The debate on the wisest course now in Iraq should include a frank assessment of the motives and stimulus for the continuing hostilities. Falsely portraying all your “enemies” as deranged religious fanatics intent on “destroying your way of life” is a cowardly attempt at deception that only perpetuates the rotting banquet of warfare.

If the Bush administration is too deluded, or neurotic, or obsessed to see the forest for the trees, then it is time for the congress to step up and have an open debate on the true merits of maintaining our present policy in Iraq.

It is their constitutional duty and it is why the Founding Fathers envisioned the value of a separation of powers.

John Bomar
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