Hugh Cort

Dr. Hugh Cort III (born October 29, 1951) was a candidate for U.S. President in the 2008 Republican primary and a psychiatrist from Alabama. He stands out for several controversial views including the belief that Sadaam Hussein assisted in the September 11 attacks in 2001, and that Osama bin Laden had an "American Hiroshima plan" to blow up 10 American cities with suitcase-sized nuclear bombs.
Biography
Cort was born October 29, 1951. He is the great-great grandson of Walter Haldeman, the founder of Naples, Florida.
He became a physician in the practice of psychiatric medicine, according to his campaign Web site, and lives in Mountain Brook, Alabama. Dr. Cort is interested in the subject of counter-terrorism, and authored the book Saddam's Attacks on America, which says Saddam Hussein assisted Al Qaeda in the September 11 attacks.
He is active in medical Christian missions to Africa, and has membership in Gideons International and Physicians for Life.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for Alabama House of Representatives District 48 in the June 2006 Republican primary garnering 6.12% of the vote.
Presidential campaign
According to his campaign literature Cort is running for President of the United States because "The Lord has given me a very important message to give to America. This message is that America has gotten so far away from God and His protection, with abortion, homosexual marriage, and many other sins, that destruction is coming on America a million times worse than 9/11."
Cort finished last in the Republican Texas Straw Poll held Sept. 1, 2007, in Fort Worth, Texas. Cort carried 3 delegate votes, below Rep. Tom Tancredo with 6 votes and Sen. John McCain with 8 votes.
At the straw poll, Cort discussed and distributed leaflets outlining his plan for a strong anti-nuclear weapons proliferation program and suggested the U.S. follow the McInerney Plan to defeat terrorism. Billing himself as an anti-terrorism expert, he suggested a 48-hour bombing campaign would weaken Iran's nuclear infrastructure and would prevent a possible "World War III" scenario.
On January 3, 2008 Cort earned no recorded votes in the Republican Iowa caucus. He won only 1,207 votes during the primary season and earned no pledged delegates in any of the caucuses or primaries.
Political views
Cort's campaign Web site describes the candidate as "a Christian conservative who believes in traditional values, he strongly supports a pro-life amendment to the U.S. Constitution banning abortion and a marriage amendment stating that marriage is between a man and a woman only. He is against raising taxes and for reducing government spending. He is pro-business and is in favor of tort reform to reduce frivolous lawsuits."
He has also stated that he doesn't believe that global warming is caused by human activity, saying the problem is that the sun is going through a hotter phase, and cited that while Earth's ice caps are melting, so are , and Mars does not have any human activity causing its warming.<ref name="cmonitor.com"/>

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