~Listen Now!~ Background Briefing with Ian Masters: Iran and psychoanalyzing W

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Guests:

11am Background Briefing with Ian Masters:

Discussion of the possibility of W attacking Iran with:

Col. Sam Gardner - retired, talks about prepping for Iran attack

Habas Adin (sp?) - former Iraqi citizen, now American citizen, professor of Islam at Stanford University

Wayne White - scholar at the Middle East Institute, was an advisor to the Iraq Study Group


12pm Live from the Left Coast:

John Briggs and John Briggs II psychoanalyze W
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011807J.shtml


Gary Kamiya - founder of Salon.com, recent article "Where's the Outrage?"
http://www.salon.com/opinion/kamiya/2007/01/16/antiwar/...

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IAN MASTERS

BBC trained broadcast journalist, commentator, author, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker.


BACKGROUND BRIEFING

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LIVE FROM THE LEFT COAST

A program from Ian Masters which features a longer, more in-depth interview with a special guest on a topic of current interest, followed by a series of listener phone calls.

[Richard D]

1. This program really should be . . .

. . . on the Listen Live section of DU. Really one of the very best in-depth analysis about what's happening.

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2. Agreed, and it should be national.

I was thinking of pming the powers that be to add it to the DU list. It seems to need an update anyway.

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6. Nice avatar btw.... is he puckered up and ready to kiss my ass? nt

[Richard D]

7. Not puckered up . . .

. . . but I'm hoping that continued use will get the a-hole clean.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

3. In my opinion, the most intelligent and outstanding progressive talk show

on the air in America today. I'm really looking forward to hearing from the psychotherapist on his opinion of Bush's current mental state.

[halobeam]

4. bookmarked for ref.

much appreciated.

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5. "watch for the nimitz to be deployed"

one of the signs we'll attack Iran,
according to Gardiner.

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8. listening & kicking, Thanks

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

9. Bush has feelings of inadequacy

According to one of the psychotherapists: "There's longstanding evidence that he feels inadequate" and he's "developed a series of defense mechanisms not to feel" what he's feeling.

They also mentioned that Bush wants both his father's approval, wants to defeat his father's image of having failed to get Saddam, and wants also to escape from his own terrible fears that he's not up to the job. His whole history is filled with failure, as they note.

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10. Bush doesn't have a decision-making process - he has a series of

defenses. He doesn't want to know much detail. Paul O'Neil was surprised to find out how little engaged Bush was in the decision-making process. Bush prides himself on relying on his gut. The Bush Administration functions like a gang and Cheney is the real enforcer. Hahaha

Edit: They described the entire Bush inner circle as a bunch of children with no adults around to supervise them, saying that Colin Powell was the last adult but he's no longer there. They compared it to the Nixon White House when Nixon on one occasion allegedly got drunk and ordered that the Soviet Union be attacked and that Henry Kissinger, an adult, was around to supervise these weird outbursts. Now, however, Cheney is even more looney than Bush, according to these guys and there's telling what can happen, because Bush feels that Iraq will sum up his entire life.

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11. I was disappointed that they didn't bring up the real reasons

that the war is happening. PNAC, oil, war profiteering etc... I would have thought that Kamiya would have talked more about that aspect. I think if the public knew about all that more people would be outraged. They did talk about the mercenaries/private contractors a bit (was that with Kamiya or earlier?). I haven't read his article yet though.