Posted on 12/21/2006 8:08:40 AM PST by Toddsterpatriot
Last July, in response to Bush the Evil's enabling of Israel's gratuitous slaughter of thousands of Lebanese civilians and destruction of the country's infrastructure, I wrote about "the shame of being an American."
With the ongoing slaughter of our troops and Iraqi civilians in Bush's war in Iraq, it is time to revisit that theme.
As the Iraqi civil war (euphemistically termed "sectarian violence") intensifies, both U.S. and Iraqi casualties have sharply increased. Thirty-five U.S. troops have been killed in the first week of December. Iraqis are dying at each other's hands at about 100 per day, with many more wounded by bombs.
Iraqi civilians continue to suffer at the hands of the U.S. military, with the latest news being a U.S. air strike that wiped out two families, totaling 32 people.
The report from the bipartisan Iraq Study Group has made it plain as day that the United States is accomplishing nothing in Iraq except the destabilization of the entire Middle East. As Middle East expert Anthony Sullivan writes in The National Interest, the ISG report "constitutes a massive repudiation of the policy of the Bush administration."
The war is lost and cannot be retrieved militarily. "Staying the course" is the path of total folly.
Yet the White House Moron says that it is better for 100 U.S. troops and 3,000 Iraqi civilians to die every month than for him to admit that he is wrong.
To date, the cost of Bush being wrong is 25,000 U.S. casualties (dead and wounded) and approximately 650,000 dead Iraqis. No one knows how many have been wounded.
How many more will die before America drowns in the shame of the blood that is being shed for no other reason than the American people were so stupid as to elect a president who cannot admit that he made a mistake? The same stupid American people elected a Congress that is too corrupt to impeach a president who is a liar, a war criminal and a tyrant.
Instead, they are prepared to let Bush off with a mere "mistake," a courtesy denied to President Clinton. Lying about sex is an impeachable offense.
Lying about war is a mere mistake.
Are the American people, Congress and the American establishment going to let the death toll continue to mount day by day for the two more years it takes for Bush to become history?
How do America's military families feel about the loss of loved ones for no reason except President Bush cannot admit a mistake?
How do the troops themselves feel about it? On Dec. 8, a U.S. Marine who has spent seven months fighting insurgents in Anbar province answered this question on lewrockwell.com as follows: "I'm sick and tired of this patriotic, nationalistic and fascist crap . . . How do you justify 'sacrificing' your life for a war which is not only illegal, but is being prosecuted to the extent where the only thing keeping us there is one man's power, and his ego?" U.S. Marine Philip Martin says he joined the Marines to protect the U.S. Constitution, not to serve as an imperialist storm trooper.
I couldn't believe my ears when I heard talking heads worrying about Bush's "comfort level" with the Iraqi Study Group's unanimous report.
Bush's comfort level?
What about the comfort level of the Iraqis and Americans who are losing family members while idiot talking heads worry about Bush's comfort level with the facts!
Try to imagine the impression the United States gives to the rest of the world: It cannot stop a war that is a catastrophe from becoming a calamity because it would interfere with Bush's comfort level.
This disastrous war is a testament to the irresponsibility of the American people and their elected representatives. There were, of course, many dissenters. But the majority was too lazy and irresponsible to take the trouble to be informed.
Most Americans allowed themselves to be deceived and emotionally manipulated. The consequence of this failure of the American people has been brutal for countless people and their families in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Lebanon, and for the thousands of American families who have suffered because Bush sent U.S. troops on a fool's mission.
The American people are stained with the blood of innocents. Are they still not sufficiently angry with the president who used them for his crimes to demand his impeachment?
As long as Bush remains in office, the neoconservatives will demand more wars. In the current issue of Foreign Policy, neocon Joshua Muravchik stridently insists that Bush bomb Iran before he leaves office. Muravchik urges his fellow neocon warmongers to "pave the way" for the bombing of Iran and to "be prepared to defend the action when it comes."
As Middle East expert Sullivan writes, the neoconservatives are "fifth columnists" whose "real concern is not the United States but Israel." Sullivan writes that "it is past time that neoconservatives and their movement be left to drown in the deepest reaches of the ocean."
Amen! And send Bush and Cheney and Rice with them.
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Is it safe for Paul to have a keyboard in the asylum? I'm afraid he might pull the letters off and choke on them.
Sounds like PCR and Jimma Cartier been hanging out together.
Bumping your comments! Right on.
I find him not guilty of treason by reason of insanity.
Ahhhh....He finally gets to his hate point. Israel. It's not Bush he hates so much, but Jews..........
The sooner the conservatives are rounded up and executed the sooner Roberts will be happy.
What a jerk. He's gonna have a crappy Christmas, sounds like to me.
Paul Craig Roberts , pompous academic ass, who sits on the sidelines, and offers no real concreate solutions, and tries to thwart the efforts of Americans who do, by writing of a "cut and run" propaganda, that would only result in a future problems for all Americans.
They will definitely hang out together in Hell.....
I fault Bush for not aggressively framing the struggle along the lines of failed UN resolutions, danger to it's neighbors, etc. Instead with the help of the treacherous MSM, we have allowed them to frame it as a huge mistake, based on 'faulty intelligence'. THAT IS NOT THE REALITY - STUPID LIBERALS.
This a$$hole sounds like a speech writer for
that midget Machmoody Imanutjob.
Plus their WMDs are in the Bekka Valley - just ask the russian spetnatz.
Dhimmi Carter is a beacon of sanity compared to Roberts, who probably wakes up in cold sweats mumbling incoherently about "neocons" and the Illuminati - Jews - ruling the world.
Don't get trampled by the herd of Buchananites and Bush Haters stampeding this way to give Paul his attaboys.
Those poor, misunderstood Lebanese just wanted to cross over & chat with the Israeli soldiers.
Thanks for the posting. Heretofore, I hadn't heard of this cretin.
..."the shame of being an American."
...the ongoing slaughter of our troops and Iraqi civilians in Bush's war in Iraq...
As the Iraqi civil war (euphemistically termed "sectarian violence")...
Iraqi civilians continue to suffer at the hands of the U.S. military...
...the United States is accomplishing nothing in Iraq except the destabilization of the entire Middle East.
The war is lost and cannot be retrieved militarily.
...the White House Moron...
...America drowns in the shame of the blood that is being shed...
a president who is a liar, a war criminal and a tyrant.
Lying about war is a mere mistake.
President Bush cannot admit a mistake...
...imperialist storm trooper. ..
...a war that is a catastrophe from becoming a calamity
This disastrous war...
...irresponsibility of the American people...
...the majority was too lazy and irresponsible...
...failure of the American people...
Bush sent U.S. troops on a fool's mission.
...stained with the blood of innocents.
...drown in the deepest reaches of the ocean.
It's really nice to read a dispassionate analysis of the Iraq situation by a commentator who puts his personal feelings aside and focuses strictly on the facts. ;)
I thought NewsMax was a republican wing nut site. How did this get on there?
Paul Craig Roberts
"Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid."
Heinrich Heine
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Where does he get all those marvelous toys?
Well, he didn't use "Chimpy Bushitler." That's actually showing some restraint as far as this crowd is concerned.
Jooos alert!
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Off With His Head.
Sure, if Bush was a sensible President, he'd want to lose big in Iraq. That's what his critics want.
Don't incite the Freepers, Toddsterpatriot!
No Barf Alert?
Seriously: slip off the red armband, put down the Luger and take your meds, you friggin' lunatic.
lol! And no kidding.
"The war is lost and cannot be retrieved militarily."
I must have missed the part in today's paper where the insurgents had the US Army surrounded and cut off like the Germans at Stalingrad...
Thank you for sharing your thoughts.
"Whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad."
Paul's next article will be submitted in blue crayon.
Has anyone else noticed this but 9/11 has disappeared from the Liberal lexicon?
Binney & Smith luv PCR.
The Shame of Being an American (scrawled by Paul Craig Roberts in purple crayon)
His case requires intervention. Self-destructive behavior of this nature should be treated with loss of dignity and vast amounts of ridicule.
The first time I came across his stuff on fR, he had actually written a column claiming that Iran, Iraq, Syria and North Korea have not ever done anything that should concern other countries.
Would PCR recognize Christmas? after all, it was invented in Israel by one of those troublesome Jews...
As far as I'm concerned, Newsmax is worse than the NYT both in their shoddy reporting standards (I know there have been at least a couple of times that they ran urban legends as "news" stories) and in their tolerance of this anti-Semite traitor.
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