Fears About a Would-Be Leader’s Mental Health

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  • Posted By: RangerDan @ 09/02/2008 12:28:01 PM

    Why not give the guy the bomb? Let's give pedophiles Viagra, the town drunks abarrel of whiskey, and let Charles Manson out of jail while we're at it.

    • Posted By: Iconoblaster @ 09/02/2008 2:04:45 PM

      Pakistan already HAS "the bomb"...there is no question of "giving" it to anyone. It may surprise some Americans if people in Pakistan do not regard THEIR election of a President as a proper matter for the United States to forbid or permit...or even offer an opinion that Pakistanis should be expected to consider... in the first place.

  • Posted By: Iconoblaster @ 09/02/2008 1:58:41 PM

    Post-traumatic stress syndrome from abuse suffered while imprisoned, is that the diagnosis? Mood swings, depression, fits of anger.. "We normally wouldn't want a person like that in the nuclear chain of command" observes an American official. I can agree with that. You wouldn't want to entrust critical decisions about the use of nuclear weapons to a volatile and unstable person, after all.

  • Posted By: wildlifeusa @ 09/02/2008 1:51:28 PM

    I always thought it could be the case with MCCain. The fact that he goes into rages, prooves that he is mentally unstable.

  • Posted By: SteveKelson @ 09/02/2008 1:26:36 PM

    McCain has fought for YEARS to keep the records/ debriefing away from the eyes of the country.
    There's a REASON why McCain is so passionate about this privacy.......

  • Posted By: Crazytoo @ 09/02/2008 12:49:16 PM

    One of our Presedential Candidates was a POW and probably suffered from some Post Traumatic Stress DIsorder symptoms, but he may still be our next President and in control of a very large arsenal.

  • Posted By: fog80 @ 09/02/2008 11:29:12 AM

    seeing how he is fit enough to be president. why arent those cases now proceeding?

    • Posted By: Tojo @ 09/02/2008 12:38:28 PM

      A very good suggestion. If he is fit and in sound health, then charge him for fraud cases now pending against him. If he is mentally incapable then he must not be allowed to run for the post of President. It is too dangerous.

  • Posted By: Tojo @ 09/02/2008 12:35:00 PM

    The world should take immediate note and see to it that unless he is clearly and fully certified as being in sound state of mind, Asif Zardari should not be elected the President of the nuclear state. It is simply unacceptable.

    Syed Hussain

  • Posted By: garysgary @ 09/02/2008 12:28:53 PM

    Let him take office...we've had a retard for years!

  • Posted By: rkhatal @ 09/02/2008 11:04:42 AM

    He was sick only until he did not have the authority to overturn investigations against him for corruptions. Now that he can stop all those investigations, he is cured !!

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