Bush, Gingrich, Israel and the NIE

Bush, Gingrich, Israel and the NIE report

Psychosemiotic Deconstruction of Pivotal Historical event

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/124569

In Two Parts.

Part I. Bush Apologetic for NIE, Hopes Israel Not Offended

http://www.newsweek.com/id/91673

"...In private conversations with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert last week, the president all but disowned the document, said a senior administration official who accompanied Bush on his six-nation trip to the Mideast. "He told the Israelis that he can't control what the intelligence community says, but that [the NIE's] conclusions don't reflect his own views" about Iran's nuclear-weapons program, said the official, who would discuss intelligence matters only on the condition of anonymity.

"Bush's behind-the-scenes assurances may help to quiet a rising chorus of voices inside Israel's defense community that are calling for unilateral military action against Iran. Olmert, asked by NEWSWEEK after Bush's departure on Friday whether he felt reassured, replied: "I am very happy." A source close to the Israeli leader said Bush first briefed Olmert about the intelligence estimate a week before it was published, during talks in Washington that preceded the Annapolis peace conference in November. According to the source, who also refused to be named discussing the issue, Bush told Olmert he was uncomfortable with the findings and seemed almost apologetic.

"Israeli and other foreign officials asked Bush to explain the NIE, which concluded with "high confidence" that Iran halted what the document describes as its "nuclear weapons program..


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Kieth Olberman tonight (1.15.08) reported THIS, Bush saying "he can't control what the agencies say".

When, in fact, it is known that Cheney's WHIG war cadre had surpressed its release for months, while pressuring for wording that supported attacking Iran.

Further: he stated the NIE report "doesn't reflect his views." Why not? Why have National Intelligence Estimates at all, if his "views" are going to override them in favor of Jewish perceptions? What gives him the right to act on personal "views" at all?

He undoubtedly thinks these "views" are grounded in a "Christian faith"; he is over there where Jesus walked defending the Holy Land. Thus today's NYTimes:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/15/world/middleeast/15prexy.html?scp=1&sq=Bush+puts+forth+his+faith


In Heart of Islamic World, Bush Puts Forth His Faith
By Steven Lee Myers

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — President Bush’s Christianity is so central to his life that it is not surprising that it would figure prominently in a visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories.


What is striking, though, is how much his faith is coloring his approach to the biggest foreign policy challenges: the war in Iraq, the push for an Israeli-Palestinian peace accord, and his broader appeal for democracy as a counterweight to combating extremism in the Islamic world from Iran to Lebanon.


As he traveled from Israel to the Persian Gulf and, on Monday, to Saudi Arabia, keeper of Islam’s holiest sites, Mr. Bush repeatedly cited monotheistic faith, contending that it served as the foundation for freedom, justice and representative government.


“A great new era is unfolding before us,” Mr. Bush said in a speech on Sunday in an opulent hotel in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. “This new era is founded on the equality of all people before God. This new era is being built with the understanding that power is a trust that must be exercised with the consent of the governed — and deliver equal justice under the law.”


Mr. Bush’s brand of Christianity has unquestionably shaped his unswerving support for Israel, a support that is shared by many American evangelical Christians. ...


In an interview with Al Arabiya television on the eve of his trip, he clearly sought to temper the view that his faith has put him in opposition to Islam. “I pray to the same God as a Muslim prays,” he declared.

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The logical, theological and existential contradictions in this will be explained fully in detail elsewhere. Continuing the deconstruction:

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In follow up questioning about whether he had reversed the NIE report to Ohlmert, White House Press Secretary Dana Perino says "I've never heard the President say anything critical of the intelligence agencies." ("As if he ever would say such things in your personal presence," sneered Olberman, deconstructing her lying comment. )


THE STANDING CONTEXTUAL BACKGROUND OF THIS EPISODE IS BUSH'S SPEECHES OVER THE SUMMER OF '07
ACCUSING AHMADINEJAD OF THREATNING NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST. THIS INFLATED RHETORIC LYINGLY HUSTLED TERROR TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IGRNORANCE TO GET THE NATION COMMITTED TO FIGHTING IRAN BEFORE THE TRUTH CAME OUT. if this is so, it justifies charges of high criminality. .

THE ONLY REASON IT IS NOT LABELLED AND TREATED AS SUCH IS BECAUSE IT WOULD BE BAD FOR THE ZIO-CON JEWS, TO WHOSE GOD BUSH HAS PROSTATED HIMSELF.

Part II. GINGRICH BACKS HIM UP

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/124569

Gingrich: NIE Report Deliberately Worded to Hurt Bush
by Gil Ronen

(IsraelNN.com) The National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) that downplayed the danger from Iran's nuclear program was "fundamentally dishonest," former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Newt Gingrich said in an exclusive interview with Israel National Radio's Tovia Singer.

"If you simply change about three words you change the whole report," Gingrich said, adding that the report seems to have been "deliberately written to maximize the pain to the Bush administration." It was written by three former State Department officials who were "deeply opposed to what President Bush is doing," he said, and who wrote the report "to maximize confusion."

Gingrich characterized the NIE as "very misleading, very destructive and very unfortunate… almost a bureaucratic coup d'etat."
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-Comments: a. Gingrich doesn't know any more than we who followed the incident. He is not speaking from knowledge but opinion.

b. The revision of the wording of the NIE was in order to correct the impression that the 16 agencies had concluded there was evidence of a nuclear weapons program in Iran. It was not based on new data, but resulted from analysis of what the data on hand justified concluding. Thus, Gingrich, the civilian politician, acting no doubt on signal, substitutes his judgment over theirs. Pandering to the Jewish base he and extremist right wing Xian eevilvangelicals pander to, like Bush.

Psychosemiotic Deconstruction

The procedure followed in the psychodynamics of Gingrich's construction is this: 1. allude to a subtle feature of the document (that its language had, in fact, been carefully designed); 2. taking this feature to be evident to others as well, give it a preemptive twist ('--designed' ); then 3. issue the result as fact (S*=>Gingrich: NIE report deliberately worded to hurt Bush.). The procedure consists of constructing an assertion that predicates further on a projected reading of the given ("tokenized") content.

The predicated motive "to hurt Bush" evokes the Oedipal death wish toward father/president, which Freud showed is the most strenuously rejected from consciousness of all Id- impulses. The vehement reversal of all suggestion of wishing death to the father is given the name "reaction formation." The http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/124569text of its unconscious thought is: "NO! NO! I don't hate him! I LOVE HIM!" --"NO! NO! NOT TO LET DARK INTEL AGENCIES -- symbolic of the unconscious itself, already -- HURT BUSH! THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO HELP HIM!"