Psychoses - Example 37 - the Shared Psychotic Disorder, or republican representatives go shopping in Baghdad, Indiana, or anywhere USA

Shared psychotic disorder: This illness occurs when a person develops delusions in the context of a relationship with another person who already has his or her own delusion(s)..

Sgt. Matthew Roe/10th Public Affairs Operations Center, via Reuters

Gen. David H. Petraeus led Senator John McCain and a small congressional delegation of psychotics on a tour of a Baghdad market this past Sunday. Arriving in a convoy of armored Humvees carrying more than 100 soldiers, McCain and his party leisurely strolled through the marketplace in their bulletproof vests as rooftop snipers kept watchful eyes out under helicopter gunships circling overhead.

Prior to their visit, traffic had been diverted from the market and the walking tour area restricted to Americans only, which probably explains why representative Mike Pence, an Indiana Republican touring with McCain, excitedly proclaimed, it's just “like a normal outdoor market in Indiana in the summertime.”

Despite Iraqis revelations that the market the American delegation toured was a total misrepresentation of reality and, ignoring their pleas for increased security like senator McCain enjoyed, the senator afterwards cited his walk as evidence things are improving.

“Things are better and there are encouraging signs. Never have I been able to go out into the city as I was today,” said McCain beneath the overhead roar of circling American gunships as Iraqi shop owners pulled their figurative hair out of their collective heads saying, "What the fuck is he talking about?"

It appears Sunday's marketplace charade by McCain and his delegation is symptomatic of mass shared psychotic disorder being suffered by a great number of our government representatives from president Bush, Cheney, their white house cabinet, through the halls of congress where many members appear to also be infected, as well as the mainstream media who cover them.

A prevalent characteristic of this disorder of long-term delusions and hallucinations is manifested by politicos who stage phony photo ops accompanied by outrageous, outright lies, as illustrated by McCain's "walking freely" tour of the Baghdad marketplace behind extraordinary security, or president Bush's many excellent examples such as his Katrina ops, standing before cameras with a backdrop of smiling firemen as New Orleans residents were drowning.

Sadly, it appears Iraqis are more lucid than many Americans being fed this pablum of their psychotic politicians. As one Iraqi marketplace shop owner said after McCain's visit, “He is just using this visit for publicity. He is just using it for himself. They’ll just take a photo of him at our market and they will just show it in the United States. He will win in America and we will have nothing.”

Obviously the senator's delegation didn't share with the Iraqis the Kool-Aid® they were drinking.

Attribute: NY Times via EXCITE