The Perversions of the Bush Admin: Sexual Humiliation & Mother Murder

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Pretty well sums it up:

Sexual Humiliation and Mother Murder in the War on Terror

The Perversions of the Bush Administration

By JENNIFER VAN BERGEN
Counterpunch
February 20, 2006

Stories of sons murdering fathers or brothers (or fathers murdering sons who may steal the throne) are found throughout history and literature. Remember the story of Oedipus? He fulfills a prophecy by unknowingly killing his father and having children by his mother. Or think of Shakespeare's plays, particularly King Richard, in which Richard has every potential heir to the throne murdered.

The Oedipal Complex has become a well-known concept relating to a son's wish to get rid of the father.

War is sometimes viewed as father murder: the clashing on the phallic swords or discharging of the phallic guns until death.

But who has heard of mother murder?

Mother murder has, perhaps, not yet entered the story books or psychology treatises. (Or perhaps mother murderers killed the stories along with the mothers.) But we are experiencing a vivid enactment of this psychological phenomena through the policies of George W. Bush et al.

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http://www.counterpunch.org/vanbergen02202006.html

The ugly Truth:

What the Iraqis are experiencing today, Americans will know tomorrow.

[Clara T]

1. Kick

More on this Later

Rec'd

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2. I don't know that "Mother Murder"

seems like the right term for what she is describing - but she does make some good points about "Hatred of women is hatred of life".


I can't comprehend how people can be so disconnected from destroying others and destroying the planet.

[Karenina]

3. $$$$$$$

that leads to power that transcends the $$$$$$$...

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4. ...