Posted on 06/01/2006 5:34:00 PM PDT by Calif Conservative
Evil in Our Government
Paul Craig Roberts Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Is the Bush regime a state sponsor of terrorism?
A powerful case can be made that it is.
In the past three years, the Bush regime has murdered tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians and an unknown number of Afghan ones.
U.S. Marines, members of our finest and proudest military force, are under criminal investigation for breaking into Iraqi homes and murdering entire families. In an unprecedented event, Gen. Michael Hagee, the Marine Corps commandant, has found it necessary to fly to Iraq to tell our best-trained troops to stop murdering civilians.
Hagee told the U.S. Marines: "We do not employ force just for the sake of employing force. We use lethal force only when justified, proportional and, most importantly, lawful."
The war criminals in the Bush regime have dismissed the murders as "collateral damage," but they are in fact murders. Otherwise, there would be no criminal investigations and the Marine commandant would not be burdened with the embarrassment of having to fly to Iraq to lecture U.S. Marines on the lawful use of force.
The criminal Bush regime has now murdered more Iraqis than Saddam Hussein. The Bush regime is also responsible for 20,000 U.S. casualties (dead, maimed for life and wounded).
Bush damns the "axis of evil." But who has the "axis of evil" attacked? Iran has attacked no one. North Korea has attacked no country for more than a half-century. Iraq attacked Kuwait a decade and a half ago, apparently after securing permission from the U.S. ambassador.
Isn't the real axis of evil Bush-Blair-Olmert? George Bush and Tony Blair have attacked two countries, slaughtering their citizens. Israel's Ehud Olmert is urging them on to attack a third country, Iran.
Where does the danger to the world reside? In Iran, a small religious country where the family is intact and the government is constrained by religious authority and ancient traditions, or in the United States, where propaganda rules and the powerful executive branch has removed itself from accountability by breaking the constitutional restraints on its power?
Why is the U.S. superpower orchestrating fear of puny Iran?
The U.S. government has spent the past half-century interfering in the internal affairs of other countries, overthrowing or assassinating their chosen leaders and imposing its puppets on foreign peoples.
To what country has Iran done this, or Iraq, or North Korea?
Americans think that they are the salt of the earth. The hubris that comes from this self-righteous belief makes Americans blind to the evil of their leaders. How can American leaders be evil when Americans are so good and so wonderful?
How many Serbs were slaughtered by American bombs released from high above the clouds, and for what reason? Who even remembers the propagandistic lies that the Clinton administration told us about why we absolutely had to drop bombs on the Serbs?
Wasn't it evil for the United States to bomb Iraq for a decade and to embargo medicines for children? When U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was asked if she thought an embargo that resulted in the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children was justified, she replied, "Yes."
The former terrible tyrant ruler of Iraq, Hussein, is on trial for killing 150 people. The U.S. government murdered 500,000 Iraqi children prior to Bush's invasion. When the U.S. government murders people, whether Serbs, Branch Davidians at Waco, Texas, or Iraqi women and children, it is "collateral damage." But we put Hussein on trial for putting down rebellions.
Gentle reader, do you believe that the Bush regime will not shoot you down in the streets if you have a rebellion?
Iran, a small religious country where the family is intact and the government is constrained by religious authority
Yet woe be tide America if state and religion are even
mentioned in the same breath.
Liberals would be fun to torment if they weren't so dangerous.
If Bush really did sponsor terrorism then Mr. Roberts would be have been killed by the CIA or deported to, say, France (where he belongs)!
Americans think that they are the salt of the earth. The hubris that comes from this self-righteous belief makes Americans blind to the evil of their leaders.
It's not that our leaders are evil, nor that we are. It's just that any attempt to help people who don't want our help is ultimately doomed to failure. We can't assume that "of course, they want the freedoms we have" and then try to give them those freedoms at gunpoint. Oppressed peoples have to see our example and achieve it themselves if they want it...with our help if they ask. But even if, say, a couple million educated Iranians would love having the 101st Airborne drop into their backyards tomorrow, the tens of millions of backward peasants that strongly support the Mullahs make such a well-intentioned action foolish at best.
None of this means we can't play defense on the opponent's turf - including using ground forces where needed. It's just that we need to remember a lesson we seem to have forgotten after 9/11: that nation-building tends to be a very bad idea.
Who the hell is this moron?
Why?
Name them Roberts. Prove it. And if the number in Afghanistan is "unknown" then how do you know?
And murdered? I guess FDR "murdered" untold thousands of civilians in the bombing raids over Germany. Idiot.
Aside from whatever off-the-books mayhem they've been wreaking, there's that little matter about seizing our embassy and kidnapping our personnel.
North Korea has attacked no country for more than a half-century.
They send sappers to try to tunnel under the DMZ every now and then, but let's not quibble.
Iraq attacked Kuwait a decade and a half ago, apparently after securing permission from the U.S. ambassador.
I've often wondered if April Glaspie is still alive and available to the State Department, just so we could send her over to tell Ehud Olmert that the US would consider a massive IDF nuclear attack on Iran an internal Israeli matter.
Is this guy a Buchananite? Wasn't he once a conservative or am I thinking about someone else?
And the Islamic Terrorists... why their just the good guys?
My G*d!
It's people like this who seek the destruction of this country by their absolute appeasement and ignorance.
Thanks... I think!?!
Bet there's a liberal woman involved in this transformation.
How do people who write stuff like this expect to be taken seriously? It sounds like a left-wing diatribe.
Blind nut caught a squirrel.
Paul Craig Roberts is an economist and very fiscally conservative. He has been a good conservative until Bush was elected.I think he is basically an isolationist and therefore very much against the Iraq war and Bush. I have noticed his increasing virulent attacks against Bush.
You said MOONBAT?
I had to look him up..I thought this was a parody for a moment..He is off the rails, over the cliff.
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