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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It smells like the sKerry/fortunate son, concerted effort. Looks like the full court press is on against this country and our president.
This whole article is stupid because Roberts is assuming he has knowledge of all the intelligence that Bush, Cheney, Rice, Powell, and Rumsfeld had about Iraq before the war. And of course Roberts does NOT have access to all that intelligence information. So the entire article proceeds from a false premise that Roberts knows what was going on in Iraq before the war. I can't believe how many dumb editorials are written about WMD in Iraq by people who don't have access to all the facts. Just the other day, Powell said "I thought Iraq was working on nuclear weapons, and the President thought Iraq was working on nuclear weapons."
Is that a local high school ?
Do you have a high school diploma?
Fox was playing clips of Kim Jong Il yesterday with the recent blustering they've been doing. I can't get over how good that puppet was! I kept waiting for the real Il to break out in a chorus of "I'm so ronery."
Great point. thx
Nope. Right on target.
Help me out, how is this idiot a spokesman for the "far right"? His comments are pure leftist bs rants.
BWAAAHHHAAAAA!!!!
PLEASE! NOT TO MENTION THAT NAME!
Opposition to neocons has absolutely nothing to do with "Nazism" and you do nothing but bring disdain and suspicion upon yourself by raising such nonsense.
Do you suffer from the delusion that HST was a strong backer of the concept of an Israeli state?
Crack and meth are not our friends...
Wow, even the mere mention of Israel really makes you Buchananites scratchy, doesn't it?
Don't you ever get tired of toting around all that resentment?
IMO Mr. Roberts' economics columns attempt to report on the rest of the story. I appreciate that. Many don't.
In this article he seems to make no effort to report at all.
Maybe we are suppose to know why "neocons" are warmongers? Maybe we are suppose to know why taking the war to the enemy is bad? Maybe we are suppose to know why Saddam was in fact harmless, more or less?
There was no explanation for this outburst. He typed in his feeeeeeeeeeeeeelings and then stopped short of explaining them.
He looks like the evil spawn of Jimmy Carter. Maybe Carter did more than have lust in his heart. lol!
I used to read every opinion piece that Paul Craig Roberts wrote for the Washington Times. I stopped believing him after I noticed some serious factual errors.
Many MSM journalists have fallen off the left edge of reality, but Roberts fell off the right.
Cool name, I'll bet there's an interesting story behind it.
And, I can't believe how many Sheeple continue to espouse the idea that we "little people" must not use the good sense God gave us, but instead listen to and follow our führer.
And proves once again, as the emotional rhetoric could have easily been scibbled by a Deaniac, that the falling off of the extreme right loops one around to the left...
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