Yeah, but the silence is deafening.
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 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?
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If I agreed with this crap, I know I wouldn't want to admit it.
[snort]
conservative?
Never ever believe MSM when they say a reporter is conservative. They even think Hillery is moving right.
What has gotten into Roberts? You don't think he has been hanging around (gulp) arianna huffington do you?
This sounds like a very useful question. While his resume is full of soft spots at prestigious nameplates, and he hasn't been a part of government for ages, this screed has the resonance of a guy on a barstool in midafternoon telling the barkeep, "I usedta BE somebuddy."
(Barkeep just keeps wiping that imaginary spot deep inside a waterglass, holding it up to the light and wiping it some more.
Yeah, but the silence is deafening.
As a protestant German-American I certainly don't speak for all new conservatives, and it isn't my intention to alienate the `lunatic fringe' on either the left or the right . . in fact, I patronize products advertised in, for example, both 'The Nation' and 'Chronicles Magazine', e.g.
http://www.ssregalia.com/
I just picked up a snappy SS officer's uniform for the prom, but not sure it goes with my date's corsage . . .
Don't feed the conspraizoids, they still think Saddam and Sons were "contained", had nothing to do with Islamic cults, had no money or science capabilities for WMD, never used WMD, took good care of their people, never signed a surrender agreement, and were just minding their own business!
And we should stand up for ourself. Why rely on the spineless UN and France and Germany?
This guy has more in common with Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky, George Soros, and Jimmy Carter than Reagan (at least in foreign policy). He sounds like Ward Churchill. Are you sure he is a Conservative?
It's fun, like the zoo.
I believe that was the point of my reply, son.
Do a little reviewing before your next "snappy" reply.
I don't know how fun it is, but I do know that it makes the Free Republic community look stupid.
He still doesn't get it, does he?
When PCR is posted and eighty or so freepers note how idiotic the article is, and then one or two show up and try to agree with the idiocy, I can't see the harm to FR.
In fact, it makes us look pretty good, I'd say.
If there were fifty iconoclasts spouting that crap, THEN we'd look bad.
How terribly tragic it is that no one appreciates your genius...you're so put upon, and unappreciated....it's unjust.
I have read your responses in defense of Roberts, and it appears that the paleocon far right, of which Roberts is one, suffers the same disease as the progressive far left, an elitist mentality that has to spew hate to try to make a point. Both are fringe elements in this society and political system and both have a disconnect for dealing with the problems that do exist today, remaining mired in policies and beliefs of the past. They share a denial that those policies no longer work in today's expanding and changing global dynamic. Both are basically dinosaurs that refuse to adjust to a changing world and appeal only to a narrow spectrum of the people. I am grateful that the paleos and far left are not the ones leading the War on Terror, neither has the spine to defend this country, and their 'I hate Bush' rhetoric has made these supposedly opposite views into Siamese twins.
I am not an idolizer of Bush, some of his domestic policies have left me shaking my head. But I do understand the realities of the political paradigm in today's society. To those who adhere to precepts anchored in the past without regard to the evolvement in world economics and geopolitical structures that have taken place are no better than ostriches. There is no doubt in my mind, even with the disagreements with some of Bush's programs, we are far better off with him in office than we would be with Gore or Kerry and their neo-socialist agendas.
How silly. Where did you ever get such an idea? Is that how you distinguish between left and right?
Paul Craig Roberts is and has been a respected conservative commentator since you were in your diapers, if not before.
If you write something this pathetic, I suppose it's not conceivable you'd have enough sense not to sign it.
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