Ordinarily I wouldn't post something like this in the Diatribe section — we'd leave it for the Mystery Links. But when I heard this story, I had a kinda gut feeling that it was more than just one of those Bizarro-world things. The psychic, who asks not to be named, is someone I know pretty well and I can attest to the fact that they have a pretty remarkable track record. Here is their statement:

"On the night of August 31, I was awakened sometime after midnight, but well before dawn (it was still completely dark) by an extremely powerful dream that I recognized as having been what mediums call a "visitation." In this dream, I was in a windowless room what seemed to be some sort of bunker or underground headquarters — cement walls, a plain heavy big table, couple of chairs. A man had been brought in for questioning. During the dream, it didn't register who he was though I saw him clearly.

"When I woke up I realized immediately that it was Ariel Sharon.

"The only thing different about him was that his skin seemed sort of yellowish — jaundiced, as if he had liver problems, and he was thinner, sort of wasted looking. But it was him. He had been placed in a chair and on the opposite side were at least two, maybe three people, all male. I saw a glimpse of a grey wool uniform on someone standing in the shadows. But the only person I could clearly see was sitting down, leading the questioning. This person was a very young man, very boyish looking. Very round head, very dark hair, fine textured but wavy, almost curly. He had a rounded face and struck me as being more a boy.

"He confronted Sharon with some papers — they were odd looking, square sheets almost brownish, and heavy, as if they were papyrus or some other old paper. On them were columns of symbols that I thought might have been Hebrew letters. They seemed very important to the "case," as if they were some sort of coded information that was implicating evidence. What was really odd was that the young man referred to Sharon as "Saul," not Sharon or Ariel. The boy shoved the papers at "Saul" and asked him if he was familiar with them ... "Saul" said No, he hadn't seen them before, but he got this awful, evil smile, like a barracuda on his yellowing face, so I knew he was lying and not only that but feeling extremely smug that no one could possibly implicate him in whatever it was he had done.

"The boy was persistent and kept asking questions. "Saul" kept responding with the same barracuda smile. One accusation was very clear: Saul had intentionally gotten some people killed through some sort of ongoing sneaky scheme, and the papers seemed to have something to do with this — one of them seemed to be a list of who was to be killed, where they would be, and how it could be done. I got the feeling that no one knew that Saul had had anything to do with these deaths and would be very shocked to learn that he had. Some of those killed were Palestinians but several were Jewish deaths that other people had been blamed for.

"Finally, just when I thought that there was going to be no breaking this guy down, the boy said, "I know what you did with my aunt." That was when the smile left "Saul's" face. He looked shocked for a moment, then started to try to smile again. The boy then said "We have evidence ... we KNOW what you did." The feeling underneath this was really dark, with an ominous feeling as if some awful crime was associated with the young man's aunt.

"That was when it hit me very clearly that this boy was a relative of Saul's and that the aunt was someone close to Saul — a wife, maybe, which would make the boy Saul's nephew. However, I also got a vague, not really clear feeling that the boy was someone who was dead, and that he was trying to break through to Saul's conscience ... he wanted him to admit to what he had done. Saul was springing ups from the chair trying to grab the papers and run away when I woke up."

The direct link to this was expunged, but was fortunately cached in Google (and to be on the safe side, I copied it into a permanent file) http://216.239.51.100/ search? q= cache:o0_x1NQuD3UC: www.moqawama.org/ articles/ doc_2002/ autobiography.htm+ margalit+ sharon+ car+ accident&hl= en&ie= UTF-8

So ... Ariel Sharon, if you have a deceased nephew, he KNOWS WHAT YOU DID. My own "vibe" is that if there was an accusatory spirit, it was probably that of Sharon's dead son — the psychic described the interrogator in the dream as having a very round head and looking very boyish. The "aunt" may have just been a reference to his mother's sister, the one who moved in on his father after mom was out of the way. In any case, I doubt if anyone who knows the truth is still alive — anyone with evidence against Sharon has a way of "disappearing": http://www.americanfreepress.net/ 03_17_02/ And_Then_There_Were_None/ and_then_there_were_none.html

I would not want to be in Sharon's shoes ... maybe because, unlike Sharon, I have a conscience and a soul. I could not live with the presence of all those accusatory ghosts — both Israeli and Palestinian — whose deaths I had caused.

Bush Reads a Book

Dear Cheryl

It's weird, each time Bush announces that he is reading a book, the media just about wets their pants in excitement as if to reaffirm to John Q. Public, "See, we told you this guy was White House material! " A few months ago the press announced that Bush was reading the classics and now that War is imminent, the media is tranquilizing us again. Hey no need to worry because Bush is reading The Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen and Leadership in Wartime, by Eliot Cohen. A hawkish primer about past leaders that kicked the evil doers asses by intoxicating timid generals with brilliant strategies, (See summary of book by Robert Higgs in AlterNet, Aug 28th).
      Wow, if information contained in this book gets into the convoluted neuron mass (or is it mess?) of George Bush's grey matter, we are in deep doo-doo. Scary enough to make an atheist turn to prayer.

So why does the press need to comfort us each time Bush picks up a book? I can't remember the press announcing when Clinton was reading. Oh, I forgot, Bill really was an intellectual. I guess, when the media spin on Bush is wearing thin, it's time to dupe us again with "Bush really is qualified" logos. Spin master Karl Rove once told The New York Times, "There's a clear command presence. When those admirals and generals leave the Oval Office, you can see they've been with the commander in chief." Now, with this latest how-to book for reading material, military leaders will really be quivering.

Go Bush go.

Kind regards.         —Mike

I think the press is excited because Bush has shown such improvement in his reading ability in just one short year! Last Sept. 11 he was so engrossed by The Hungry, Hungry Caterpillar at that Florida School, he almost couldn't tear himself away to respond to emergency calls about the WTC.

So we go from Hungry Hungry Caterpillar to Hungry Hungry Hawk.

I laughed out loud at Rove's idiotic non-statement: "When those admirals and generals leave the Oval office, you can see they've been with the commander in chief." What a claim to "leadership qualities!! " That's like saying, "When those lawyers leave the court room, you can really tell they've been with a judge." As opposed to having been with a gas station attendant, circus ringleader, cab driver or any one of the 150 million adults of working age in the U.S. who do NOT preside over a courtroom — or occupy the Oval Office.

As for Eliot Cohen — what an appropriate author for Bush! Cohen is an armchair-bound chicken hawk who has never been near the military, except in his fantasies. I bet while he was working on his book, he dressed up in a rented general costume and marched around his house making his cat and dog salute him and developing brilliant strategies for mowing the lawn and taking out the garbage. In any case, the only action the pompous old fart probably ever saw was fighting over the last copy of Patton at his local Blockbuster the week it was released in video.

Best,