Reading the president's mind

I sometimes wonder what goes through the U.S. president's mind. I see him as a lucid man with strong values -- to believe otherwise would mean that our planet is doomed to a dark period of conflicts and the dismantling of an international community that humanity has been building since after World War II, when the U.N. charter was signed in San Francisco.\nHowever, in spite of his values, I believe he is involved with all the ambitions and interests which are inherent to power and to the high clergy of corporations. \nI believe that George Bush has a conscience. I believe that in some rare moments he sees a tiny, floating, winged white-dressed Bush pop up in front of his eyes and argue with a little red, trident-wielding Bush who has just popped up too. \nI imagine that the angelic little Bush initiates the conversation:\n-- Why do you want to attack Iraq?\nAnd the devilish little Bush answers, with a forced angelical face:\n-- Saddam Hussein is evil, and kills his own people. We ought to bomb them.\n-- But countries like France and Germany are against the attack!\n-- Nah! They have business interests in the region. Let's bomb Iraq.\n-- But we too have business interests in the region!\n-- We are the good guys. Let's bomb them.\n-- What about the protests around the globe? The millions of people claiming for peace?\n-- This situation is too complicated for simple people to understand. Let's bomb Iraq.\n-- But what about the U.S. ambassador who worked for years in the Middle East and just resigned because of his strong opposition to the attack? Doesn't he understand very well the complexity of the situation?\n-- We don't need ambassadors. We will make more bombs. Let's bomb Iraq.\n-- What about the costs? How many people will we need? We have 1.4 million troops distributed in Germany and Japan (since the end of WWII), South Korea, Bosnia, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Philippines, etc. Iraq has the capability of getting 700,000 people ready to war. North Korea has more than a million, probably millions. \n-- Can't you do math? One bomb takes thousands of lives. Certainly there will be soldiers among those. And money is not a problem; we are promoting tax cuts to fix our economy. Let's bomb them!\n-- But didn't the chairman of the Federal Reserve say the tax cuts are going to bring more problems to our economy?\n-- Freedom is priceless. Let's bomb them.\n-- What if North Korea seizes the moment to attack South Korea?\n-- It will not. I want to deal with Iraq now. Korea must behave and wait for its turn! Let's bomb Iraq.\n-- And after the attack, what happens?\n-- We give a democratic Iraq to its people. Let's bomb them.\n-- How? Turkey, our newly bought ally, doesn't want a federation of Kurds. We don't want an Iraq ruled by Iran-supported Shiites. All ethnicities are kept quiet under Saddam's ruthless fist. After he is ousted, which of them is going to be put in power? And how is it going to stay in power?\n-- Umm … Does it matter? We will place Gen. Tommy Franks as the country's administrator! Let's bomb them!\n-- Assuming this is a fair solution, if we are going to turn Iraq into a free democracy, we will eventually have to give power to the Iraqis, won't we? How are we to ensure there won't be other rulers financed by our money turning their backs to us, as it happened with Osama and Saddam? Are you sure this attack right now is the best solution?\n-- Huh? This is getting too complicated. Why can't we just bomb them??