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George W. Bush has finally found his mission in life. After 55 years of waste, this Scull and Bones frat rat has decided that his life has meaning. We are the dubious beneficiaries of his newly found raison d'etre.

He now believes it is his duty to hunt down and destroy all evildoers. This will take his lifetime and ours. He won't be able to complete his mission during his first term in office. He won't be able to complete his mission at all. Meanwhile we have to suffer the consequences of his deluded Napoleon imagination.

George is a frightened little boy and so are all the rest of those wimps in the White House, who felt sure their number was up when the airliner went crashing into the Pentagon, with one probably heading for the White House (downed in a Pennsylvania field). George thinks he is doing something for the rest of us. However, a selfish lifetime rarely transforms this late in the game without excruciating inner work. Analyzing his domestic policies assures me that this inner work has not been done.

If he feels that he has found his purpose without doing the inner work that would confirm it, he must be using the psychological defense mechanism of projection. He has projected his own dark side onto the world and found those that can easily embody it for him. He's had the nasty Osama Bin Laden to project his darkness onto, but Osama is gone, probably dead, and Bush needs a new bogeyman. Saddam Hussein always fits the bill, doesn't he? A demonic Taurus in the same way Hitler was, the guy actually likes to see his enemies thrown into vats of poisonous chemicals. So why not get rid of the bastard? Because Bush is doing it for all the wrong reasons. Some of those wrong reasons include: mitigating his father’s failure to get rid of Saddam when he had a chance during the Gulf War, replacing Saddam with a leader that is more cooperative with the U.S. (i.e. sell us their oil at a low price), continuing the war in order to 1. keep the voters eyes off the domestic damage he is doing and 2. insure that he wins a second term in office.

His axis of evil phrase (which includes Iraq, Iran, and North Korea) in his State of the Union address has not only enraged all of Europe, he has undermined the progress of democratic forces in Iran, as well as the detente brokered by the Clinton administration between North and South Korea. And while singling out these three nations, Bush has ignored the horrible civil rights abuses in Burma (isn't Halliburton Oil getting a foot hold there?) Saudi Arabia (remember George Bush Sr. and the Carlyle Group?) and Uzbekistan (another one of those former Soviet Republics that border Afghanistan and is a major producer and exporter of natural gas, as well as having large petroleum reserves, coal and other metallic ores. Hey, we can't offend their vicious leader, Islam Karimov. We want his oil and gas).

Not only has Bush failed to see the evil in these other countries because his buddies want to make money there, as well as his own, he has refused to see the wickedness in his family. It's been festering for generations.

The rotten that poisons the Bush family is most easily seen in the Jeb and George Bush children, whose problems with drugs and alcohol are symptomatic of the dark inside their parents and grandparents. George Bush Sr. attached himself to bad powerful people (Richard Nixon, Chilean dictator August Pinochet, cult leader Sun Moon, Carlos Menim, ex-right wing leader of Argentina among many others) years ago because he wanted power and he couldn't get it on his own merits. The mutable T-square in his horoscope indicates that he is an opportunist, a man without values other than the desire to succeed despite his mediocrity. Sr. is a cipher. Jr. is a stooge.

Jr. may succeed well enough in projecting his family's evil onto Iraq, Iran, or North Korea. But what will be in store for us if he does? Will we destroy the positive but tenuous relationships we have with other Arab countries and make it more likely for disgruntled and hateful Muslims to lash out as they did on September 11? Will we undermine the advances in democracy that Iran has made (that already seems to be occurring--according to the Washington Post online, more than 60 pro- democracy members of Iran's parliament have been ordered to appear before judges who are religious extremists. John Ward Anderson in his article, "Iranian Courts Target Reformist Legislators" writes,'Bush had called Iran part of an axis of evil that supports terrorism and seeks to acquire weapons of mass destruction--a comment many analysts said damaged the reform movement and strengthened conservatives.'

Jr.'s horoscope indicates that he is a seriously deluded individual that is presently unable to see the evil in himself, his family, or in his associates. His Sun square Neptune aspect lends itself to serious misjudgment. Further, with his birth chart Pluto in his first house of the self in opposition to transiting Neptune (planet of illusion) in his Seventh House of relationships, we can judge that if he takes this slayer of evil role too far, projecting his own darkness onto others and not seeing it in himself, he will find that the energy boomerangs and nails him. He could put himself in grave danger beginning in March.

Meanwhile what are the rest of us to do? Pray for the unlimited mercy of God.