Paul Craig Roberts Says, "Hold the Neocons Accountable"

Newsmax.com ^ | 11-20-03 | Roberts, Paul Craig

[JohnGalt]

Paul was a step ahead to advance beyond the propaganda dissemination and onto the sorry state of the alleged conservative press to go along for the ride.

[Mr. Bird]

Fed disinformation, Bush dutifully regurgitated neocon fabrications that Iraq possessed 500 tons of chemical weapons, 25,000 liters of anthrax, 38,000 liters of botulinum toxin, 30,000 prohibited warheads and uranium from Niger.

Many figures cited in the run-up were the known stockpiles at the end of Desert Storm. It was always Iraq's obligation to prove their destruction, not ours to discover them. And as for the uranium from Niger, why can't anyone get that stupid story straight? Bush never once said Iraq had uranium from Niger. Bush never said the U.S. had information regarding uranium from Niger. Bush said British intelligence had information stating that Iraq had sought to obtain uranium from Niger.

[dirtboy]

Fed disinformation, Bush dutifully regurgitated neocon fabrications that Iraq possessed 500 tons of chemical weapons, 25,000 liters of anthrax, 38,000 liters of botulinum toxin, 30,000 prohibited warheads

Fabrications? I do believe that this information came from Iraqi inventories of their chemical weapons stockpiles, which they never documented as having destroyed.

and uranium from Niger

Bush never said such.

More whining from Roberts.

[Toddsterpatriot]

There was not a word of truth or intelligence in what Powell told the United Nations. Iraq most certainly was NOT developing chemical, biological and nuclear weapons of mass destruction.

I guess those Kurds that were gassed to death must have been killed by those evil neo-cons.

[Veritas_est]

I have as many problems with neocons as any other ultra conservative, right wing, religious fanatic, but there are some problems with the facts in this report as well. Some one who is criticizing others for getting the facts mixed up really should get his facts straight first.

[dirtboy]

Paul was a step ahead to advance beyond the propaganda dissemination and onto the sorry state of the alleged conservative press to go along for the ride.

And he accomplishes this by lying and distorting the information himself?

[dirtboy]

Some one who is criticizing others for getting the facts mixed up really should get his facts straight first.

Well said.

[marlon]

And I see that Colin Powel so upset that he was "forced to lie" that he has tendered his resignation and become a vocal opponent to the war! Where do these people get their ideas?

[JohnGalt]

More apologizing for the idiots at the Weekly Standard.

[maui_hawaii]

Can someone tell me what a "NeoCon" actually is???

[dirtboy]

Read post #6 and get back to me - a paleo poster said it better than I did: Some one who is criticizing others for getting the facts mixed up really should get his facts straight first.

[JohnGalt]

None of us expect those who were duped to actually admit they were duped. Being manipulated to support a meaningless war is a painful thing, I would imagine.

Your attempts to spin Roberts into a liar is simply your effort at spin control to the already converted. It will work in the short term, but not the long term.

[Burkeman1]

Bump!

And now we get to watch as these neoscum betray Bush like they did his father.

[dirtboy]

Your attempts to spin Roberts into a liar is simply your effort at spin control to the already converted.

No spin required. EVEN A PALEO POSTER AGREES HE'S DISTORTING THE FACTS HERE.

It's kinda like getting after someone on FR for their spelling and making a spelling error in your post - makes you look really stupid. Your defense of Roberts shows how little the facts mean to YOUR point of view.

[JohnGalt]

I have no reason to believe that #6 is a paleo-poster; he signed up last week, and he challenged no 'facts' from the report for which I can comment on.

[Sir Gawain]

Being manipulated to support a meaningless war is a painful thing, I would imagine.

The war wasn't meaningless. If you think it was, you can't see the big picture.

[sinkspur]

Roberts has been trending paleo for so long that I'm surprised he's not lewserrockwell.com.

And to think I formerly read and respected him as a straight thinker.

He's obviously moved into senility.

[JohnGalt]

I don't fear the cave dwellers the way the girly men at the Weekly Standard do, I guess. Certainly not to the point where I would support a $200 billion debt financed nation building project, fought by teenage girls from West Virginia like the girly-men of said mentioned magazine.

That is hysterical over reacting to say the least!

Now, I suppose the big picture is that Trotskyite idea Bush sadly proclaimed support for two weeks ago: Global Democratic Revolution.

I take a pass on that too.

[Toddsterpatriot]

These improbable revelations raised no suspicions at The Weekly Standard or Fox News

Yeah, the idea that these evil men who hate America would ever cooperate is ridiculous. It's like Hitler and Stalin signing a non-aggression pact. It could never happen.