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Bush's state of mind
From Capitol Hill Blue
Bush Leagues
Bush's Erratic Behavior Worries White House Aides
By DOUG THOMPSON
Publisher, Capitol Hill Blue
June 4, 2004, 06:15
President George W. Bush’s
increasingly erratic behavior and wide mood swings has the halls of
the West Wing buzzing lately as aides privately express growing concern
over their leader’s state of mind.
In meetings with top
aides and administration officials, the President
goes from quoting the Bible in one breath to obscene tantrums
against the media, Democrats and others that he classifies as “enemies
of the state.”
Worried White House aides
paint a portrait of a man on the edge, increasingly wary of those who
disagree with him and paranoid of a public that no longer trusts his
policies in Iraq or at home.
“It reminds me of
the Nixon days,” says a longtime GOP political consultant with
contacts in the White House. “Everybody is an enemy; everybody
is out to get him. That’s the mood over there.”
In interviews with a
number of White House staffers who were willing to talk off the record,
a picture of an administration under siege has emerged, led
by a man who declares his decisions to be “God’s will”
and then tells aides to “fuck over” anyone they consider to
be an opponent of the administration.
“We’re at war,
there’s no doubt about it. What I don’t
know anymore is just who the enemy might be,” says one
troubled White House aide. “We seem to spend more time trying to
destroy John Kerry than al Qaeda and our enemies list just keeps growing
and growing.”
Aides say the President
gets “hung up on minor details,” micromanaging to the extreme
while ignoring the bigger picture. He will spend hours personally reviewing
and approving every attack ad against his Democratic opponent and then
kiss off a meeting on economic issues.
“This is what is
killing us on Iraq,” one aide says. “We lost focus. The President
got hung up on the weapons of mass destruction and an unproven link
to al Qaeda. We could have found other justifiable reasons for the war
but the President insisted the focus stay on those two, tenuous items.”
Aides who raise questions
quickly find themselves shut out of access to the President or other
top advisors. Among top officials, Bush’s
inner circle is shrinking. Secretary of State Colin Powell
has fallen out of favor because of his growing doubts about the administration’s
war against Iraq.
The President's abrupt
dismissal of CIA Directory George Tenet Wednesday night is, aides say,
an example of how he works.
"Tenet wanted to
quit last year but the President got his back up and wouldn't hear of
it," says an aide. "That would have been the opportune time
to make a change, not in the middle of an election campaign but when
the director challenged the President during the meeting Wednesday,
the President cut him off by saying 'that's
it George. I cannot abide disloyalty. I want your resignation and I
want it now."
Tenet was allowed to
resign "voluntarily" and Bush informed his shocked staff of
the decision Thursday morning. One aide says
the President actually described the decision as "God's will."
God may also be the reason
Attorney General John Ashcroft, the administration’s lightning
rod because of his questionable actions that critics argue threatens
freedoms granted by the Constitution, remains part of the power elite.
West Wing staffers call Bush and Ashcroft “the Blues Brothers”
because “they’re on a mission from
God.”
“The Attorney General
is tight with the President because of religion,” says one aide.
“They both believe any action is justifiable
in the name of God.”
But the President
who says he rules at the behest of God can also tongue-lash those he
perceives as disloyal, calling them “fucking assholes”
in front of other staff, berating one cabinet official in front of others
and labeling anyone who disagrees with him “unpatriotic” or
“anti-American.”
“The mood here is
that we’re under siege, there’s no doubt about it,” says
one troubled aide who admits he is looking for work elsewhere. “In
this administration, you don’t have to wear a turban or speak Farsi
to be an enemy of the United States. All you
have to do is disagree with the President.”
The White House did not
respond to requests for comment on the record.
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