Bush is Mad! - Invoke the 25th Amendment


On July 14, 2003, George W. Bush answered a question from a Washington Post
reporter about the Niger uranium hoax by saying:

"The fundamental question is, did Saddam Hussein have a weapons program?
And the answer is, absolutely. And we gave him a chance to allow the
inspectors in, and he wouldn't let them in. And, therefore, after a
reasonable request, we decided to remove him from power..."

How can Bush say Saddam "wouldn't let [UN inspectors] in" when everyone in
the world knows this is not true?
Bush's statement - delivered with utter seriousness with UN Secretary
General Kofi Annan at his side - cannot be excused as a misstatement. The
United States of America went to war in Iraq - at a cost of 212 (and
counting) U.S. soldiers, 6,000 (and counting) Iraqi civilians, thousands of
Iraqi soldiers, and $50 billion (and counting) taxpayer dollars - after
four full months (11-18-02 through 3-19-03) of inspections by UN experts
led by Hans Blix (UNMOVIC) and Mohamed El Baradei (IAEA).

The exhaustive efforts of the inspectors were the top news stories
throughout the world from beginning to end. George W. Bush commented on
them repeatedly and in detail, and he defied the UN by invading Iraq
because he insisted the inspections had failed.

If George W. Bush now believes Saddam "wouldn't let [UN inspectors] in,"
then it is self-evident that he has simply lost touch with reality. In
plain English, Bush has gone mad.

This is not the first time Bush has exhibited symptoms of insanity. On
6-24-03, Israel's Ha'aretz newspaper quoted Bush as telling Palestinian
Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas:

"God told me to strike at al Qaida and I struck them, and then he
instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did..."

And on 7-3-03, Bush urged Iraqi fighters who want to kill Americans to
"bring them on" - a reckless remark that endangered the lives of American
soldiers. The 25th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States was
adopted in 1967 to deal with any situation in which the President became
"unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office."