Paul Craig Roberts: More Shame, More Sorrow: Will Bush Take Everything Down With Him?

[seafan]

More Shame, More Sorrow

By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
August 29, 2007

In the administration of George W. Bush, the Republican Party has achieved the greatest combination of idiocy and evil in human history.

The Republicans have bogged America down in a gratuitous and illegal war. The war has destroyed Iraq, killed between 650,000 and 1,000,000 Iraqi civilians, displaced 4,000,000 Iraqis, and littered the country with depleted uranium. Bush's war remains unwon despite its five year duration and $1 trillion in out-of-pocket and incurred future costs.
Bush's invasion of Iraq is a war crime under the Nuremberg standard, a direct counterpart to Hitler's invasion of Poland. Both were based on lies and deception, and the declared reasons for both were masks for secret agendas.

Bush's invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, his planned attack on Iran, and his support for Israel's attack on Lebanon and genocidal policies toward the Palestinians have radicalized the Middle East and Muslims worldwide. American and Israeli aggression have vindicated Osama bin Laden's propaganda, produced massive recruits for Al Qaeda, and unleashed destabilizing forces throughout the Middle East

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US puppet rulers in Jordan and Pakistan, and even the Saudis and oil emirates, report the ground shaking under their feet. America's puppet in Pakistan is in trouble, and his difficulties are compounded by US military incursions into Pakistan. The Bush administration is considering contingency plans to seize Pakistan's nuclear weapons in the event the American puppet is overthrown, delusional contingency plans considering the over-stretched US military.
In the postwar years, the US managed with its money and influence to secularize an elite class in Middle Eastern countries, an elite that identifies with the West and not with their own cultures. This artificial elite has produced a wide political gap between the masses of the people and the rulers. Increasingly, Muslim masses perceive their rulers as allied with foreign powers against them.

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Just as Hitler long denied German defeats on the Russian front and even in his last days was ordering non-existent German divisions to relieve Berlin, the Bush regime finds a new straw to grasp in Iraq each time the previous straw proves to be a delusion. The latest straw is "the surge." While Americans surge, the British have been defeated in southern Iraq and have withdrawn to two bases in eerie similarity to the French at Dien Bien Phu. The British bases are subjected to between 30 and 60 mortar and rocket attacks each day. British generals want their troops out of Iraq. The longer UK prime minister Brown keeps them in Iraq in order to appease the Bush administration, the harder it will be to rescue the survivors.

With American retreat south to Kuwait now potentially cut off, how will the US extract its troops and equipment when American defeat can no longer be denied?

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The Bush administration seems destined to produce such disasters that it will be driven to the use of nuclear weapons in order to avoid defeat. The Bush administration possesses the combination of evil and stupidity required to escalate a failed "cakewalk war" into a nuclear one.
Many of the administration's most evil members--Wolfowitz, Feith, Libby, Rumsfeld, Rove, and Gonzales--have been discarded as the tragedy deepens, but Cheney remains ensconced as does the moron in the White House. Before they fall, Bush and Cheney will bring more sorrow to the world and more shame to Americans.

[insomnomaniacal]

1. Bravo! Well-stated.

You are absolutely correct. What amazes me is the lack of concern among many Americans, if not most Americans, about everything that Bush and his cronies have done, even since before taking office.

Jeb Bush and Katherine Harris and their lackey, Clayton Roberts, deliberately created a faulty "felon list" that in effect barred thousands of Democrats from voting in Florida in 2000. No one seemed to view this as election fraud, although it clearly was deliberate. The media, the Supreme Court, and many others simply accepted it as -- I don't know -- unimportant?

It's well documented that Bush had his bin-Laden family friends spirited out of the country in violation of the NOTAM no-fly condition following 9/11/2001, without them being so much as interviewed by the FBI about any knowledge they might have had about their relative, Osama. Again, this act of irresponsibility, which may well have been also close to treason, has gone by the by with a gigantic "so what?" from leadership, from the media, from everyone!

Right on down the line, one crime, one egregious violation of the Constitution after another, and this so-called president sneers at all of us from his impenetrable web of "plausible deniability," secrecy, stonewalling, and serviceable lackeys (Tony Snow, Gonzales, I. Lewis Libby, etc.), and we either don't have the will or the ability to drag the sorry, lying insect out into the light -- and into the hands of justice.

[Skittles]

2. hey

what took you so long to get here ? :hi:

[seafan]

3. Hope to hear more of your opinions. Welcome to DU. n/t