I think Hersh's idea about the Bush inner circle as a cult is ridiculous, well not the part about ignoring conflicting information which is perfectly normal human behavior but the part about "proceeding with certain mind control techniques to sell the war". As nearly all the public response to their attempts to "sell the war" were negative, they could hardly have been using "mind control techniques" unless they were using mind control techniques that have been proven to be totally useless and ineffective. Well maybe they were practising techniques 1 to 4 of Rawatianity, they've certainly proven to be useless and ineffective.I was chatting wiht a premie mate a short while back and my tongue ran away with me, as it often does, and it ended up with me saying, "I bloody well hope you think he's God, I'd hate to think you kiss his feet if you don't think he's God!"
