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A Reputation in Tatters - Time To Impeach Bush (by Paul Craig Roberts)
Chronicles Magazine ^ | 5/20/05

Posted on 05/20/2005 1:26:39 PM PDT by KidGlock

CHRONICLES EXTRA | EVENTS | HOME

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?

COPYRIGHT 2005 CREATORS SYNDICATE INC.


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antiwarright; clueless; delutionalnonsense; idiot; pathetic; paulcraigroberts; unaware
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To: KidGlock

Bush is bad, Bush is stupid, blah, blah, ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ......


41 posted on 05/20/2005 1:43:56 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember (Honoring Saint Jude's assistance every day.)
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To: Paleo Conservative

Yes, it's all about that Barbary Pirates thing.


42 posted on 05/20/2005 1:44:29 PM PDT by stop_fascism
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To: KidGlock

"As intent as Republicans were to impeach President Bill Clinton for lying about a sexual affair" ..... lying under oath!!!!
Do you think these people will ever state what the impeachment was really about?


43 posted on 05/20/2005 1:44:49 PM PDT by roylene
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To: KidGlock
Good heavens, what a mess. I guess the death of David Hackworth has left a vacuum that even the once-respectable Mr. Roberts is rushing to fill....

How the mighty have fallen.

44 posted on 05/20/2005 1:45:09 PM PDT by r9etb
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To: kevkrom
Anyone who gets the basic facts this wrong merits no further reading. Clinton was impeached not for "lying about a sexual affair", but for committing perjury, obstructing justice, and suborning perjury in others, including his own government employees.

You posted what I was intending to post. You are exactly correct. It amazes me how often these facts are conveniently left out of any article regarding the impeachment of President Clinton.

What else could you expect from the Bush-hating crowd?

45 posted on 05/20/2005 1:46:12 PM PDT by blinachka (Vechnaya Pamyat Daddy... xoxo)
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To: KidGlock
Supposedly the NYT posted an article about 96 Dem congressmen sent a letter to Pres Bush about this.

They said it was buried on page A37.

If it had any truth to the story it would have been on page A1 of the NYT.

Libs are all saying "now we got the proof".

Just got to laugh at the left.
46 posted on 05/20/2005 1:46:15 PM PDT by PureTrouble
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To: areafiftyone

Well, that's a very impressive resume. I must say I always found this guy a little nutty when I've read his pieces. Then he just started to freak me out, so I stopped reading him.


47 posted on 05/20/2005 1:46:58 PM PDT by jocon307 (Irish grandmother rolls in grave, yet again.)
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To: blinachka; kevkrom

48 posted on 05/20/2005 1:47:24 PM PDT by Howlin (Up or down on Janice Brown!)
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To: KidGlock
Are you kidding? George W. Bush and his gang of neocon warmongers... was all I needed to read.
49 posted on 05/20/2005 1:47:34 PM PDT by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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To: KidGlock
No need to read much further.

I didn't get past:

"George W. Bush and his gang of neocon warmongers..."

Life's just too short.
50 posted on 05/20/2005 1:47:51 PM PDT by itsamelman (“Announcing your plans is a good way to hear God laugh.” -- Al Swearengen)
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To: KidGlock

Which college paper does this come from?


51 posted on 05/20/2005 1:47:54 PM PDT by TheDon (Euthanasia is an atrocity.)
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To: KidGlock
The article isn't about what Moslems think. Rather, it's what Nazis and neoNazis think. This guy referred to "neocon warmongers" and that's the current codeword for Jewish Republicans, with the emphasis on the "Jewish" part of the expression.

We already know where Nazism leads. Why can't we just pre-emptively round these guys up and ship them off to their Fatherland.

52 posted on 05/20/2005 1:48:19 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Vn_survivor_67-68; KidGlock
Kidglock: "Muslims hated the US since the days of Jimmy Carter."

Vn_survivor_67-68: Longer than that. Since Oct, 1973.

May 14, 1948: President Harry S. Truman recognizes the State of Israel within eleven minutes of her proclamation.

53 posted on 05/20/2005 1:48:27 PM PDT by Petronski (A champion of dance, my moves will put you in a trance, and I never leave the disco alone.)
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To: KidGlock
...not even our puppets can stand the heat...

The only thing dumber than an old bromide is a mixed metaphor old bromide.

54 posted on 05/20/2005 1:48:41 PM PDT by 6SJ7
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To: Minnesocold
I'm thinkin' there's a little love-child action involved....
55 posted on 05/20/2005 1:48:54 PM PDT by r9etb
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To: longtermmemmory
(too strong?)...

Nah, stop sugarcoating, the dweeb might think you like him.:^)

56 posted on 05/20/2005 1:49:06 PM PDT by smoothsailing (Qui Nhon Turtle Co.)
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To: jocon307

Sometimes the brain is overloaded I guess. He's going Ratty!


57 posted on 05/20/2005 1:49:14 PM PDT by areafiftyone (Politicians Are Like Diapers, Both Need To Be Changed Often And For The Same Reason!)
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To: r9etb

ROFLMAO!!! You bad!


58 posted on 05/20/2005 1:49:51 PM PDT by areafiftyone (Politicians Are Like Diapers, Both Need To Be Changed Often And For The Same Reason!)
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To: KidGlock
Muslims hated the US since the days of Jimmy Carter.

You can really go back to 1949 when the UN recognized Isreal as a country. That is a key point when Arabs starting hating America, and it might even have been sooner than that.

59 posted on 05/20/2005 1:50:35 PM PDT by Always Right
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To: Petronski

Winston Churchill warned of the growing danger within islam.


60 posted on 05/20/2005 1:50:48 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Anyone who thinks we believe Hillary on any issue is truly a moron.)
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