http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7430.shtml
Dangers of a Drunk Dubya
By DOUG THOMPSON
Sep 23, 2005, 08:39
According to the National Enquirer, President George
W. Bush, an alcoholic, is drinking again.
In normal times, such a story in a tabloid like the
Enquirer would be dismissed as just another fantasy
for the newspaper that normally devotes its front page
to gossip about celebrity divorces.
But
an America
with Bush as President is anything but normal and too
many warning signs point to the sad fact that Dubya
the drunk is back on the bottle. Plus we reported
the
same thing in a story about Bush's temper tirades on
August 25.
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7267.shtml
Like the President, I'm a recovering alcoholic. Unlike
him, I've been sober for 11 years, three months and 16
days. Bush says he quit drinking without help from any
organized program. I had a lot of help - from family,
friends and Alcoholics Anonymous. As an alcoholic, I
can say without hesitation that available evidence
tells me that Bush is drinking and drinking heavily.
The signs have been there for too long. Bush fell off
a couch after, his aides say, "falling asleep." He has
appeared in public with bruises on his face, the kind
of injuries a person would suffer from falling in
alcohol-impaired conditions. He disappears from public
view for extended periods,
takes more
vacations than
other Presidents, has trouble forming words, appears
disinterested in public and mangles his sentences. In
other appearances he rambles and appears unable to
focus. During the Katrina crisis he displayed little
emotion or compassion when confronted with the horrors
along the Gulf Coast.
This web site reported last year that the White House
physician had placed the President on
anti-depressants. If Bush is mixing alcohol and
anti-depressant drugs his judgment - which is already
suspect - is impaired even more.
"
The President all too often is out of control,"
a
White House source tells me. "People are afraid to
risk his anger by telling him things he does not want
to hear. Newsweek magazine reported the same thing
last week in their story: "How Bush Blew It."
The Enquirer interviewed Dr. Justin Frank, a
Washington D.C. psychiatrist and author of Bush On The
Couch: Inside The Mind Of The President.
"I do think that Bush is drinking again," Frank said.
"Alcoholics who are not in any program, like the
President, have a hard time when stress gets to be
great. I think it's a concern that Bush disappears
during times of stress. He spends so much time on his
ranch. It's very frightening."
Dr. Frank is a highly-respected psychiatrist at George
Washington University and his book about the
President's problems has been praised by other
psychiatric experts. We interviewed him last year for
the stories about the President's deteriorating mental
state and his conclusions confirm Bush is losing it.
White House aides tell me rumors about the President's
drinking began circulating last year in the West Wing
along with questions about possible abuse of
prescription drugs. They report wide mood swings,
cancelled meetings and an ever-decreasing number of
aides with direct access to Bush.
"Two questions that the press seems particularly
determined to ignore have hung silently in the air
since before Bush took office," Dr. Frank told us in
August. "Is 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."
It's scary enough to have a nutcase
in the White
House. It's even scarier to think that nutcase may be
drunk.
http://www.nationalenquirer.com/celebrity/63426
BUSH'S BOOZE CRISIS
By JENNIFER LUCE and DON GENTILE
Faced with the biggest crisis of his political life,
President Bush has hit the bottle again, The National
Enquirer can reveal.
Bush, who said he quit drinking the morning after his
40th birthday, has started boozing amid the Katrina
catastrophe.
Family sources have told how the 59-year-old president
was caught by First Lady Laura downing a shot of booze
at their family ranch in Crawford, Texas, when he
learned of the hurricane disaster.
His worried wife yelled at him: "Stop, George."
Following the shocking incident, disclosed here for
the first time, Laura privately warned her husband
against "falling off the wagon" and vowed to travel
with him more often so that she can keep an eye on
Dubya, the sources add.
"When the levees broke in New Orleans, it apparently
made him reach for a shot," said one insider. "He
poured himself a Texas-sized shot of straight whiskey
and tossed it back. The First Lady was shocked and
shouted: "Stop George!"
"Laura gave him an ultimatum before, 'It's Jim Beam or
me.' She doesn't want to replay that nightmare -
especially now when it's such tough going for her
husband."
Bush is under the worst pressure of his two terms in
office and his popularity is near an all-time low. The
handling of the Katrina crisis and troop losses in
Iraq have fueled public discontent and pushed Bush
back to drink.
A Washington source said: "The sad fact is that he has
been sneaking drinks for weeks now. Laura may have
only just caught him - but the word is his drinking
has been going on for a while in the capital. He's
been in a pressure cooker for months.
"The war in Iraq, the loss of American lives, has
deeply affected him. He takes every soldier's life
personally. It has left him emotionally drained.
The result is he's taking drinks here and there,
likely in private, to cope. "And now with the worst
domestic crisis in his administration over Katrina,
you pray his drinking doesn't go out of control."
Another source said: "I'm only surprised to hear that
he hadn't taken a shot sooner. Before Katrina, he was
at his wit's end. I've known him for years. He's been
a good ol' Texas boy forever. George had a drinking
problem for years that most professionals would say
needed therapy. He doesn't believe in it [therapy], he
never got it. He drank his way through his youth,
through college and well into his thirties. Everyone's
drinking around him."
Another source said: "A family member told me they
fear George is 'falling apart.' The First Lady has
been assigned the job of gatekeeper." Bush's history
of drinking dates back to his youth. Speaking of his
time as a young man in the National Guard, he has
said: "One thing I remember, and I'm most proud of, is
my drinking and partying. Those were the days my
friends. Those were the good old days!"
Age 26 in 1972, he reportedly rounded off a night's
boozing with his 16-year-old brother Marvin by
challenging his father to a fight.
On November 1, 2000, on the eve of his first
presidential election, Bush acknowledged that in 1976
he was arrested for driving under the influence of
alcohol near his parents' home in Maine. Age 30 at the
time, Bush pleaded guilty and paid a $150 fine. His
driving privileges were temporarily suspended in
Maine.
"I'm not proud of that," he said. "I made some
mistakes. I occasionally drank too much, and I did
that night. I learned my lesson." In another interview
around that time, he said: "Well, I don't think I had
an addiction. You know it's hard for me to say. I've
had friends who were, you know, very addicted... and
they required hitting bottom (to start) going to AA. I
don't think that was my case."
During his 2000 presidential campaign, there were also
persistent questions about past cocaine use.
Eventually Bush denied using cocaine after 1992, then
quickly extended the cocaine-free period back to 1974,
when he was 28.
Dr. Justin Frank, a Washington D.C. psychiatrist and
author of Bush On The Couch: Inside The Mind Of The
President, told The National Enquirer: "I do think
that Bush is drinking again. Alcoholics who are not in
any program, like the President, have a hard time when
stress gets to be great.
"I think it's a concern that Bush disappears during
times of stress. He spends so much time on his ranch.
It's very frightening."
Published on: 09/21/2005
"In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a
revolutionary act."-George Orwell
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption
of authority.
It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to
guard the
people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in
all ages who
mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be
good
masters, but they mean to be masters." -- Daniel
Webster
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"Great empires cannot subsist without great armies, and
liberty cannot subsist with them." - Cato, anti-federalist
Iraqi Resistance Report for Thursday, 22
September 2005
Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent found murdered in Tall 'Afar.
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Ninwa Province.
Tall 'Afar.
Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent murdered. Badr Brigades blamed in
killing of lone independent reporter in beleaguered city.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam in Tall 'Afar, whose
reports
have been among the few to break through the US-imposed blockade
on the
city was found murdered in his house Thursday morning.
Salim Tu'mah Khattab al-Jabburi, 25, submitted the report two days
ago
on Tuesday, 20 September, that was the basis for the story
"Civilians
continue to die as American offensive on Tall 'Afar grinds on.
Thus far
72 children and 53 women have been killed, medical sources
report."
Salim's brother told Mafkarat al-Islam's editorial offices that
Salim
was found dead in bed at dawn Thursday, with bullet wounds in his
chest,
neck, and head. The brother said that no one else was living in
Salim's
house at the time, since the young man had sent his mother and
brothers
outside the city for fear of the ferocity of US bombing. Salim
remained
behind to cover the news in Tall 'Afar where the Americans have
continued to press their offensive.
Salim's relatives blamed the murder on the Shi'i sectarian Badr
Brigades, whose forces joined the US military during their
invasion of
Iraq in the spring of 2003 and have since then served the American
occupation in puppet police and security agencies and have been
linked
to waves of sectarian abduction, torture, and murder.
Salim al-Jabburi was determined to report the news in the defiant
city
as it resisted the American onslaught. At the beginning of the US
offensive on Tall 'Afar, he was one of three reporters operating
secretly in the city, where US forces have arrested and imprisoned
any
journalist discovered reporting from the city without American
permission. After the fighting intensified, Salim became the only
journalist working in besieged Tall 'Afar, Mafkarat al-Islam
reported
Thursday.
Salim al-Jabburi was a 2002 graduate of the College of Management
and
Economics of Mosul University and had worked for several Iraqi
news
agencies and newspapers, including the paper al-'Iraq and al-Hadba'
in
Mosul, before joining Mafkarat al-Islam where he worked for 10
months
prior to his assassination.
In a dispatch posted at 7:40pm Mecca time Thursday, Mafkarat
al-Islam,
many of whose journalists have been killed in the line of duty in
occupied Iraq, apologized to readers in advance for the fact that
in
coming days they will have difficulty reporting from Tall 'Afar,
until
such time as they re-organize their news bureau in that city.
Al-Anbar Province.
Ar-Ramadi.
One US soldier reported killed in morning battle in as-Sufiyah
district
of ar-Ramadi Thursday morning.
Iraqi Resistance forces armed with light and medium weapons,
including
pipe rockets attacked a patrol of two US armored vehicles and
three
Humvees in the middle of the as-Sufiyah area of ar-Ramadi at 9am
local
time Thursday morning.
The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent in the city reported residents
of
as-Sufiyah as saying that the attack sparked a fire fight that
lasted
about 20 minutes in the course of which on US Humvee was disabled
and an
armored vehicle set ablaze. One US soldier was killed and four
others
wounded. Two of the Resistance fighters were also wounded before
withdrawing with the rest of their comrades after the clash.
US surrounds neighborhoods in ar-Ramadi in preparation for
house-to-house raids and searches.
In a dispatch posted at 10:30am Mecca time Thursday morning,
Mafkarat
al-Islam reported that US forces had begun to encircle
neighborhoods in
preparation for raiding and searching homes there.
The Mafakrat al-Islam correspondent reported residents of the city
as
saying that US forces had surrounded and cut off the whole
neighborhoods
of al-Mal'ab, al-Mu'allimin, ath-Thilah, and al-Mukhabarat in the
center
of the city. Dozens of US vehicles were seen surrounding the
private
football field "al-Mal'ab" belonging to the ar-Ramadi
football club, and
the as-Siddiq mosque in the center of the city
A violent battle took place in the as-Sufiyah neighborhood of the
city
on Thursday morning that left several US troops dead or wounded
and two
American vehicles disabled (see story above).
Kilometer 160.
Resistance ambushes US column Thursday morning.
In a dispatch posted at 12:30pm Mecca time Mafkarat al-Islam
reported
that fierce fighting broke out between Iraqi Resistance forces and
US
troops in the Kilometer 160 area west of ar-Ramadi at 10:30am
local time
Thursday morning.
The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent reported local witnesses as
saying
that about nine Iraqi Resistance fighters armed with light and
medium
weapons and pipe rockets attacked a column of several US Humvees.
The
firefight lasted about 10 minutes and left one of the American
vehicles
ablaze.
After the attack, US troops opened fire indiscriminately on
civilians
and then surrounded the whole area, making it impossible for the
Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent to obtain information on the
nature or
extent of US casualties.
Al-Baghdadi.
Resistance bombards US 'Ayn al-Asad base Thursday morning.
Iraqi Resistance forces bombarded the main US base, known as 'Ayn
al-Asad, in al-Baghdadi west of Baghdad at 9:30am local time
Thursday
morning.
The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent reported residents of
al-Baghdadi as
saying that three medium-range Katyusha rockets blasted directly
into
the US base, sending up columns of smoke.
Abu Ghurayb.
Resistance fighter blasts car bomb into US patrol in Abu Ghurayb
Thursday afternoon.
In a bulletin posted at 3:45pm Mecca time Thursday afternoon,
Mafkarat
al-Islam reported that an Iraqi Resistance car bomb exploded by a
US
patrol in the middle of Abu Ghurayb a short time earlier.
The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent in Abu Ghurayb, 30km west of
Baghdad, reported a source in the Iraqi puppet army as saying that
a
short time earlier an Iraqi Resistance fighter drove an
explosives-packed car into the American patrol in the ar-Risalah
section
of Abu Ghurayb, killing or wounding a number of US occupation
troops.
The correspondent reported the source as saying that two US
vehicles
were severely damaged in the attack, which killed or wounded a
number of
American troops.
The correspondent was unable to ascertain the exact nature or
number of
casualties because US forces surrounded the entire section of the
city
after the attack with a very tight security cordon.
Al-Fallujah.
Resistance ambushes puppet police patrol near al-Fallujah market
Thursday afternoon.
In a dispatch posted at 5:50pm Mecca time Thursday afternoon,
Mafkarat
al-Islam reported that a short while earlier, Iraqi Resistance
forces
had attacked an Iraqi puppet army patrol on the road to the al-Fallujah
market.
The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent reported shopkeepers in the
area as
saying that the Resistance fighters armed with hand grenades and
light
weapons ambushed the patrol of three pickups belonging to the
Iraqi
puppet army. The witnesses reported that the Resistance fighters
set one
of the vehicles on fire, killing or wounding four Iraqi puppet
troops.
Baghdad.
Two US troops reported killed in roadside bombing south of
Baghdad.
An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a joint US-Iraqi puppet army
patrol
between the area of Jurf ash-Sakhr and al-Mahmudiyah south of
Baghdad at
about 3:15pm local time Thursday afternoon.
The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent in Jurf as-Sakhr reported
witnesses
as saying that a bomb that had been planted by the side of the
road
south to al-Mahmudiyah blew up as the joint patrol was passing by.
The
explosion set one Humvee on fire and killed two US troops and
wounded a
third, eyewitnesses reported.
Two US soldiers reported killed in morning bombing in Baghdad's
al-Mashtal area.
An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a column of US armored
vehicles on
the mian road in the al-Mashtal ("Arboretum")area of
Baghdadat 10am
local time Thursday morning.
The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent reported traffic wardens who
were on
the scene at the time of the blast as saying that a bomb that had
been
planted on the side of the road blew up as the patrol of several
US
armored vehicles passed by.
The blast disabled one of the armored vehicles, killing two US
soldiers
and wounding another. One civilian who was nearby was also
injured.
Resistance bomb targets patrol of puppet "shock police"
in as-Sayyidiyah
Thursday morning.
An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a patrol of the Iraqi puppet
"shock
police" in the as-Sayyidiyah area south of Baghdad at about
9:15am local
time Thursday morning.
The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent reported a source in the
puppet
police as saying that a bomb that had been planted by the side of
the
road leading to as-Sayyidiyah blew up as a patrol of several
pickups
belonging to the "shock police" was passing by.
The explosion damaged one of the vehicles in the patrol, wounding
four
puppet "shock policemen," one of them severely.
Salah ad-Din Province.
Samarra'
Thousands flee Samarra' following threats by US puppet regime to
launch
military offensive on the city.
More than 1,200 families have fled the city of Samarra', heading
towards
Tirkit following threats by the US-appointed "Iraqi Defense
Minister"
Sa'dun ad-Dulaymi that US and Iraqi puppet troops would be
launching an
offensive on the city to rid it of Iraqi Resistance forces.
The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent in Samarra' reported that most
of
the families had to undergo humiliating searches by Iraqi puppet
troops
on the outskirts of the city.
The correspondent said that dozens of shops in the city had been
closed
and official offices and other services have been closed and shut
down.
The correspondent said that claims by the local governor that
schools
had reopened were false. "No school in Samarra' had opened
out of fear
of an expected military offensive against the city.
Ad-Dulu'iyah.
US continues blockade, bombing, house raids on ad-Dulu'iyah. Four
civilians killed in American air raids.
US forces continued their blockade of the city of ad-Dulu'iyah,
north of
Baghdad on Thursday. In a dispatch posted at 9:40am Mecca time
Thursday
morning, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that at the time of reporting,
American troops had sealed off the al-Jabbur are of the city and
were
carrying out house-to-house raids and searches there.
The ad-Dulu'iyah correspondent for Mafarat al-Islam reported city
residents as saying that US warplanes had been bombing parts of
the city
on Wednesday night and Thursday morning, targeting houses of local
civilian residents. Four civilians were killed, two of hem women,
and
three others wounded in the American attacks. Dr. Usamah al-Baz of
ad-Dulu'iyah General Hospital said that two of the injured were in
serious condition.
Residents of al-Jabbur told Mafkarat al-Islam that the Americans
were
raiding and searching many houses, particularly after hey had
received
word that one of he truck drivers working for them had been
captured
after his truck was destroyed in a Resistance ambush on an
American
convoy two days ago.
Diyala Province.
Al-Miqdadiyah.
Resistance forces ambush joint US-Iraqi puppet patrol north of
Ba'qubah.
In a dispatch posted at 12:10pm Mecca time Thursday, Mafkarat
al-Islam
reported that Iraqi Resistance fighters had attacked a joint
US-Iraqi
puppet army patrol in the Shahraban area (al-Miqdadiyah), some
85km
northeast of Baghdad.
Residents of Shahraban told Mafkarat al-Islam that Resistance
fighters
armed with light and medium weapons, incluing PKS machine guns,
attacked
the joint patrol on the road to Ba'qubah.
At-Ta'mim Province.
Al-Hawijah.
Puppet police backed up by US troops carry out mass arrests of
Sunnis
following attacks.
In a dispatch posted at 5:20pm Mecca time Thursday afternoon, the
Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent reported that Iraqi puppet
"shock
police" force under the US-installed "Ministry of the
Interior" had
launched a campaign of arrests of Sunnis in the al-Hawijah area
west of
Kirkuk.
The correspondent reported local witnesses as saying that the
"shock
police," backed up by US military forces, encircled numerous
districts
in the area and carried out raids and arrests of Sunni Arabs
belonging
to the tribes of a-Jabbur, al-'Ubayd, al-Janabiyyin, and ash-Shamar.
The correspondent reported that more than 30 young men had been
rounded
up in the sweeps that were carried out on the pretext that there
had
been attacks on US and puppet troops.
Kirkuk.
Resistance bombards US base at Kirkuk Airport early Thursday
morning.
Iraqi Rseistance forces fired five mortar rounds into the main US
headquarters in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk at 5am local
time
Thursday morning.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam in the city reported
eyewitnesses as saying that five mortar rounds blasted into the
airport
that the US forces have taken over as their base. The attack set
off
powerful explosions inside the US facility.
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