Saturday, May 3, 2008 was an uneventful day across much of America as search-and-rescue efforts, recovery and reclamation work, and mass burials continued. As somber as the work was, the American free spirit never relinquished itself to complete despair. People found humor in even the most catastophic circumstances at times. On rare occasions, a survivor would be found among the rubble, which would bring joy to the community - and reinforce the notion that all this agonizing, discouraging work was never in vain.
As experts poured over George W. Bush's private diary, more startling revelations proved that in the last eighteen months of his presidency, he was not in any psychological or emotional condition to be running the most powerful nation in the free world. On the verge of what appeared to be chronic manic depression, the scrawled writings showed a side of Bush that was intensely darker than that which the TV cameras captured. To be sure, everytime Bush gave a press conference or stood before the media, he had become more and more unsure of himself, obviously less prepared, and often times visibly weary. Every U.S. President at times carried a heavy burden, particularly in times of trouble or national crisis. But toward the end of 2006 and all during 2007, Bush's demeanor seemed more rattled and less confident. He seemed tormented, especially since there were no more of those damned Democrats to deal with in Congress. The mid-term elections in November, 2006 had not been good to the GOP, and Bush was increasingly becoming a target of what he considered 'with hunts'. It was with some final irony that a Democratic-led movement to impeach George W. Bush for high treason was gaining momentum during his last two years in office. In The Hague, there was a movement underway to try George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld for international crimes against humanity. These actions came on the heels of new information which revealed a series of abhorrent misconduct within the Bush administration which climbed all the way to the top rungs within the White House power structure. The reason for Bush's depression, based on some of the diary entries, was not remorse for the atrocities of his administration and his dysfunctional leadership; instead, George W. Bush had seemed more concerned about his legacy and the greatness with which history would recall his tenure as President. For pages, Bush would expound on various factions within his administration in almost child-like scribblings. Whimpering about how he was hampered from "doing more" to boost his reputation as a "great leader", Bush's writings revealed a deeply troubled, wounded personna - like that of a spoiled child pissed off because he didn't get his way (which should have been no surprise, given the circumstances of his youth, and even that of his early adulthood where his family bailed him out time after time).
Surrounded by controversy and mired with malfeasance, the Bush administration was in a state of malfunctioning malaise for more than a year before O.U.T.R.A.G.E. bombs finally put it out of its misery. From his juvenile perspective, George W. Bush blamed everyone else for his failures. As cynical as his diaries sounded, there was a ring of truth to it: after all, Bush was never really in control of the White House. His family and the nameless, faceless power brokers who truly controlled the country behind-the-scenes, had installed Bush as a token President, a puppet who they would dangle from hidden strings while they manipulated world events to their benefit. Oil executives, in collusion with Dick Cheney, had persuaded Bush to declare war on Iraq and Iran for one reason: rich fields of easily-accessible oil. The military-industrial complex, in collusion with Donald Rumsfeld, had persuaded Bush to declare war to enhance its profits at any cost.
Ever since World War II, those in the armaments industry recognized how profitable war was. They positioned themselves into play, so that virtually all administrations and members of Congress became beholden to them. So, America became involved in the Korean Conflict, the Cuban missile crisis, the Cold War, the Vietnam War, and Desert Storm - all in the name of profit for companies such as Boeing, McDonnell-Douglass, Halliburton and General Motors. Mega-billion-dollar corporations that built everything from tanks to transmitters were part of a massive movement that encouraged every American President since Roosevelt to engage in military atrocities around the world. Sure, the stuff they built killed people. Looking over Bush's diaries, that kind of thought process didn't seem to enter Bush's mind. He seemed more obsessed over the fact that it was his "leadership" that had made all those "military guys" rich while his net worth was - in the scope of all things considered - minimal. One entry said it all: "I'm making those guys rich and they're not even letting me in the game. All I can do is be the decider who decides things that I'm not even sure I'm deciding." Such ramblings were scrambled throughout the diary, and clearly demonstrated that George W. Bush was nearing a complete nervous breakdown. Such a meltdown would have certainly occured before the end of this term had O.U.T.R.A.G.E. not stepped in and bombed the hell out of the vulgar Bush administration. Bush was ready for a strait-jacket, and he didn't even really understand why.