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?

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[hosepipe]

[ Bush’s lies have ... caused 1 billion Muslims to hate America ]

Good muslims HATE all infidels including this idiot..
Bad muslims are more moderate...

Muslims have hated all infidels for 1426 years.. but Bush is making many good muslims, BAD muslims.. Whats not to like,?,

BAD muslims appear to hate Bush and many others because the good muslims will KILL them if they don't..

[iconoclast]

What I posted is precisely the truth and you have done not one thing to refute a single item of it but bluster

I bear you no ill will, Bill.

But I'm not about to spend a half hour on Google to dispute your pitiful defense of the Bush administration's long since backdowns.

It has been COMPLETELY denied.

[iconoclast]

Welcome to the real world.

It's your sorry f'in world. not mine.

[iconoclast]

Because I would rather move to Argentina or Tazmania than Mexico.

Git goin.

God speed.

[reg45]

This Paul Craig Roberts seems a bit disturbed to me.

Anyone know what happened to him?

To quote Michael Savage "Liberalism is a Mental Disorder".

[reg45]

Perhaps he is the HI's token liberal.

[tertiary01]

FYI here's a list of Hoover Institute members:


http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/bios

[woofie]

From your link:

Impeach? Arrest and put on trial for treason
high crimes !! 911 was an inside job. www.reopen911.org Wake up people. The main media is not sleep it is just as corrupt as our officials. Blackmail is common among the elite. Read the book "The Elite Don't dare Let US Tell the people by Robert Gaylon Ross Sr. The corruption is on both sides of the isle. Try www.karlschwarz.com the fake war on drugs.. see Gary Webb who was murdered to keep him quiet. For the Peak Oil Hoax see Lindsey Williams The Energy non Crisis. Wake Up America we are dying. Our leaders all signed the ID bill. Wake up we are occupied by criminals. Bush is just one in the gang of baron robbers. Google REX-84 That was Oily North's little put together and signed by Clinton.. We are loosing our nation Wake up. Listen to Dr L Monet for the DU. That will kill thousand for generations! The vaccines are poison. What does it take for this Nation to stand up and fight. Stop taking those antidepressants too they are laced with 40% fluoride a mind control drug and it will also kill you. Look at the poisons that they put in our food chain. Google population control. Study the Franklin cover up. Turn off the TV! Talk to your neighbors your friend your family. The powers that be know we are learing about their corruption via the net. That is why they want the Pac Acts. The name of the game is CONTROL! Education is the key to Take our Country back !

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I would say someone left the cake out in the rain

[iconoclast]

Let's make it real easy - do you affirm or deny that the intervention was authorized by a joint resolution of Congress? Do you affirm or deny that the Clinton administration believed that there were WMD in Iraq? Do you affirm or deny that casus belli was not the presence of WMD but the refusal of Saddam to provide proof that numerous UN resolutions required that he had destroyed the WMD known to exist? Those were my points. Refute them or concede them.

Do you think I believed Clinton?

Do you think I ever believed the grinning cowboy?

I NEVER accepted ANY of that horse shit!

What kind of an intellectual sponge are you?

[iconoclast]

I guess North Korea and Iran will test that theory.

Any guess as to who's after that?

[Antoninus]

Yaaaawn.

[iconoclast]

I see you've been rereading your posts.

Shoot, doesn't everyone? ;o)

[Gondring]

Well, there's also the economic market. And hey, Taiwan really shouldn't be out there all alone. And why not let America just become Mexico North? And ...

I'm going to have to ding you for spelling/using "who's" properly. I've seen it wrong so often these days, I had to stop and look again at your sentence to read it as a non-possessive. :-(

[defenderSD]

I decided not to read your last two posts to me or any of your other posts on this thread. This thread is turning into an irrational overheated flame war and I have no further interest in it.

[iconoclast]

Okey doke, no hard feelins.

[iconoclast]

You betcha!

[iconoclast]

This thread is turning into an irrational overheated flame war and I have no further interest in it.

Flame war?

Nighty night.

[zip]

Thanks for the links. It finally dented my thick skull. My definitions sucked when I posted the original.

[rlmorel]

Ahhhh! Proles! "Did you hear that??? That's what I'm on about! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help! Help! I'm being repressed!"

[rlmorel]

Iconoclast, Benedict Arnold served valiantly in the American War of Independence, but once he took the traitorous plunge, any capital he had built up as a patriot disappeared.

Likewise, it makes no difference at all if JPR was a respected conservative writer for fifty years. He has partaken of the moonbat-left Kool-Aid, and from that point his opinion is worthless, as is that of anyone who agrees completely with this rubbish that he wrote.