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 Americas reputation. It is likely to stay destroyed, because at this point the only way to restore Americas 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 Bushs far more serious lies. Bushs lies have caused the deaths of tens of thousands of people, injured and maimed tens of thousands more, devastated a country, destroyed Americas 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.
Americas 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 Bushs 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 isnt Bush in the dock?
Has American democracy failed at home?
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I remember when friends would excitedly telephone to report that Rush Limbaugh or G. Gordon Liddy had just read one of my syndicated columns over the air. That was before I became a critic of the US invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration, and the neoconservative ideologues who have seized control of the US government.
America has blundered into a needless and dangerous war, and fully half of the countrys population is enthusiastic. Many Christians think that war in the Middle East signals "end times" and that they are about to be wafted up to heaven. Many patriots think that, finally, America is standing up for itself and demonstrating its righteous might. Conservatives are taking out their Vietnam frustrations on Iraqis. Karl Rove is wrapping Bush in the protective cloak of war leader. The military-industrial complex is drooling over the profits of war. And neoconservatives are laying the groundwork for Israeli territorial expansion.
Didn't go any further. Did he say something worthwhile?
Resentment to what? (Other than the rejection of common sense).
BTW, how bout answering my question?
Are you talking to me here? I said no such thing.
Shore does get lonely, don't it? ;o)
And our reputation matters how?
America can redeem itself only by holding Bush accountable.
And the author redeem himself by getting fired along with all the other appeasers, peaceniks, hippies, communists and leftists.
Has American democracy failed at home?
Aside from the leftists trying to undermine it, last I checked we are still a REPUBLIC.
They have hated everyone who is NOT another muslim since the down of time.
His comments have everything to do with the far-Right. The far-Right's agenda has stretched so far out that they are in Leftist territory.
Check out this column, which explains how this portion of the Right is in lockstep with the Left.
I'm sorry Sir, but you are one of those on here that do not deserve two tries at connecting you to sanity.
You went farther than I did. I didn't get past the headline..
Who's next at Hoover, Ward Churchill?
MSM and liberal lies have caused the deaths of tens of thousands of people, injured and maimed tens of thousands more, devastated a country, destroyed Americas 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."
And this is why we need a up or down vote on judges.
BTW, how bout answering my question?
I'm sorry, but you are one of those on here that do not deserve further tries at connecting you to sanity.
"George W. Bush and his gang of neocon warmongers have destroyed Americas reputation."
" The Main Stream Media and it's gang of 'Hate America First' advocates have destroyed Americas reputation."
There. All fixed. ;)
I would guess it started long, long before that.
I know you didn't. Answer my question, which was asked a while ago.
Do you agree with PCR's column or not? Yes or no, please.
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