A Reputation in Tatters - Time To Impeach Bush (by Paul Craig Roberts)

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005

A Reputation in Tatters

George W. Bush and his gang of neocon warmongers have destroyed America’s reputation. It is likely to stay destroyed, because at this point the only way to restore America’s reputation would be to impeach and convict President Bush for intentionally deceiving Congress and the American people in order to start a war of aggression against a country that posed no threat to the United States.

America can redeem itself only by holding Bush accountable.

As intent as Republicans were to impeach President Bill Clinton for lying about a sexual affair, they have a blind eye for President Bush’s far more serious lies. Bush’s lies have caused the deaths of tens of thousands of people, injured and maimed tens of thousands more, devastated a country, destroyed America’s reputation, caused 1 billion Muslims to hate America, ruined our alliances with Europe, created a police state at home, and squandered $300 billion dollars and counting.

America’s reputation is so damaged that not even our puppets can stand the heat. Anti-American riots, which have left Afghan cities and towns in flames and hospitals overflowing with casualties, have forced Bush’s Afghan puppet, “President” Hamid Karzai, to assert his independence from his U.S. overlords. In a belated act of sovereignty, Karzai asserted authority over heavy-handed U.S. troops whose brutal and stupid ways sparked the devastating riots. Karzai demanded control of U.S. military activities in Afghanistan and called for the return of the Afghan detainees who are being held at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

Abundant evidence now exists in the public domain to convict George W. Bush of the crime of the century. The secret British government memo (dated July 23, 2002, and available here), leaked to the Sunday Times (which printed it on May 1, 2005), reports that Bush wanted “to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy. . . . But the case was thin. Saddam was not threatening his neighbors, and his WMD capability was less than that of Libya, North Korea or Iran. . . . The (United Kingdom) attorney general said that the desire for regime change was not a legal base for military action. There were three possible legal bases: self-defense, humanitarian intervention or UNSC (U.N. Security Council) authorization. The first and second could not be the base in this case. Relying on UNSCR 1205 of three years ago would be difficult.”

This memo is the mother of all smoking guns. Why isn’t Bush in the dock?

Has American democracy failed at home?

COPYRIGHT 2005 CREATORS SYNDICATE INC.

[Gondring]

How do you define conservative?

Isn't it a bit of an oxymoron to claim that those who have come in and changed the definition of "conservative" are the real conservatives...when the term implies holding fast and not changing?

[DLfromthedesert]

I notice his columns are not at Townhall.com anymore. Must be cuz he went nuts.

[iconoclast]

He invaded another country and when we invaded had the strongest army in the ME. He was also thought to have WMD in large quantites and we still don't know where they went. You are insulting some very decent people on this board. Why??

Good grief, my presumably conservative friend.

At the time of our preemptive attack Saddam had been bled dry by over ten years of our blockade and fly-overs.

He most certainly did not have the strongest defense in the region (probably the weakest).

The administration has now finally abandoned all of its silly pretenses for invasion and we are left with the final excuse "democracy for the world". Ready or not.

[iconoclast]

I'll accept the arrogance charge.

[Peach]

I see that you cannot admit that Iraq trained Al Qaeda and have forgotten the war on terror's protocol - with us or against us.

[DaveTesla]

"just Bush-bots like you"

Dave Tesla Bush Bot since 2000.
I wold rather be a Bush Bot any time of the day, any day of the week
than a COWARD Kissing this A$$.



We have ruled the world before, and by Allah, the
day will come when we will rule the entire world again.
The day will come when we will rule America. The day will
come when we will rule Britain and the entire world –
except for the Jews. The Jews will not enjoy a life of
tranquility under our rule, because they are treacherous
by nature, as they have been throughout history. The day
will come when everything will be relived of the Jews -
even the stones and trees which were harmed by them.
Listen to the Prophet Muhammad, who tells you about the
evil end that awaits Jews. The stones and trees will want
the Muslims to finish off every Jew....

God Bless G.W. Bush.

[farmfriend]

But I'll be damned if I even appear to be a Muslim apologist, like those on the far-Right are.

Excuse me? I'm far right my dear. You really don't think I'm a Muslim apologist do you?

[Stentor]

Don't feed the conspraizoids, they still think Saddam and Sons were "contained", had nothing to do with Islamic cults, had no money or science capabilities for WMD, never used WMD, took good care of their people, never signed a surrender agreement, and were just minding their own business!

...and were good dancers.

[tahotdog]

The Czechs are sticking with their story about Atta meeting with one of Saddam's top spies in Prague just prior to 9-11. There's at least one picture of the two together on the web.

Poisoning the US senate office building with anthrax, to me at least, justifies anything Bush might have wanted to do with the idiot. FDR or Truman would likely have simply leveled Iraq; what W. has done is generous in the extreme.

[iconoclast]

Maybe you should try sipping a beer and calming your arrogance for a few minutes.

I sip Martinis.

You proles sip beer! ;o)

[Peach]

Precisely.

The links between OBL and Saddam were so numerous that it's hard for me to comprehend those who are still in denial.

[rdb3]

Excuse me? I'm far right my dear. You really don't think I'm a Muslim apologist do you?

I don't think of you as being on the far-Right. You still have your brain, so you don't qualify.

[Peach]

BTW, thanks for providing that picture. I'd lost track of it some time ago when I had a computer crash.

[Gondring]

The day will come when we rule America.

Isn't that line from Randall Terry or one of his theocons?

[Peach]

LOL. Sounds just like him, doesn't it?

[DaveTesla]

You mean a Christan like me?

[iconoclast]

This reply to my post was inane.

Can't you do better?

[mountainfolk]

I'm not embarrassed for/by Miss Marple. She is correct about the lead up to the Iraq war. Facts is facts.

[iconoclast]

Every human is born with an anus. This writer seems to have mistaken his for his role in life.

Cute.

I hope you'll post again in about as many years as JPR has been a respected CONSERVATIVE writer.

[muawiyah]

Things either embarrass you, or they are inane.

Talk about some lame drivel!

Do you want a flame war, or would you prefer to be in a discussion of why it seems Paul Craig Roberts has lost his ability to reason ~ my money's on stroke; others here think it's crack (to be consistent with his Libertarian background); you feel we are simply being unfair to this poor man and that he is merely another victim of "W"'s evil minions.

Do you have anything beyond that to add?