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The Smirk: “Long before he led our nation into war, George W. Bush exhibited an appetite for destruction. As a child, Bush inserted firecrackers into the bodies of frogs, lighting the fuses and blowing the creatures up. As president of his fraternity at Yale, he used a branding iron to maim young pledges. As governor of Texas, he was observed smirking over the executions of death-row inmates, many of whom were later found to have received inadequate legal protection. Bush’s tendencies toward sadism now play out on a bigger stage, with more resounding results. He orders bombings in Baghdad and proudly shows off the horrifying photographs of the bodies of Saddam’s sons, almost daring the world to look away. He gets an even larger audience for the video footage of Saddam Hussein’s humiliation in captivity, then demonstrates a very personal sense of triumph at his capture and glee at the prospect of his executions. Closer to home, the self-proclaimed “master of low expectations” behaves more like a master of dashed expectations, raising voters’ hopes that he will demonstrate the compassionate side of his advertised brand of conservatism, then silencing them with righteous indignation when he repeatedly refuses to make good on his promises.”

Source: Bush on the Couch: Inside The Mind Of The President