Posted on 05/20/2005 1:26:39 PM PDT by KidGlock
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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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A slight correction. I do not fear their hate. I recognize it, prefer it didn't exist, and am resigned that it is a problem (like all too many others) that we have defferred dealing with to some future date.
It may be that Bush's grand plan to lead them to modernizationa nd democracy will work. I don't think so. Quite simply you can't influence irrational emotion with sreason no matter how sweetly packaged. The vast majority of the mid-east population has decided to rage against America rather than face their own internal problems. Its an easy alternative to facing their reality.
It never ceases to amaze me that an apparently intelligent person like yourself can present pap like this with a straight face.
What kind of "war" is being waged when we lack the will to pursue our enemy? What kind of an undisputed world power, matched by no other, is cowed by a small, backward, half-civilized country?
Radical extremists of that sect? Are you implying that there are Wahabbis that are not radical extremists?
I can not, do not, presume to speak for all Paleos, but isolationism has no part in my objection to/bewilderment in the actions of the administration.
We were viciously, criminally attacked! This Paleo has never denied that response was appropriate, nay, demanded! The action in Afghanistan was, IMO, totally correct and effective in as far as it went. But, early on puzzling, evasive statements began to arise from Washington. "Islam is a religion of Peace", "they" hate us for our freedom, our democracy, our this, our that.
Who was "they"? Clearly "they" was bin Laden and his very radical Wahabbi instigators and their supporters. Instead of logically and aggressively pursuing these most obvious foes we suddenly became obsessively fearful of and reactive to an entirely different threat, i.e, very questionably existent WMD's in a nation that had NEVER seriously threatened the USA!
As the rationale for this totally irrational diversion from straightforward pursuit of the glaringly obvious foe morphed from WMD's to "destruction of an evil despot", to democracy for the Iraqis, to democracy for every beggar's son on the planet, the foes themselves have simply drifted off the radar screen!
You know who the enemy is as well as I do. Your denial, diversion, and inventions are almost as puzzling as our Commander in Chief's.
I consider myself a fan and admirer of President Reagan, also. Nothing I have written indicates anything to the contrary.
Maybe Paul Robert Craig wasn't dropped on his head at birth after all, but certainly seems to have been dropped on his noggin since George W. Bush became President. For precious Paul is spitting the same venom at Bush, as are the bitter liberals and their MSM.
How could Bush have deceived Congress about those WMDs, when they had access to the same information as he?
Oh wow! I didn't know that Clinton was actually impeached.
I think this article wins today's prize for inserting the greatest number of cliches in the first paragraph alone.
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