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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: KMAJ2

I don't get it. The Paleo vs. Neo Conservative debate of who is the true Conservative. PCR sounds like a bitter disciple of Buchanan (Chris Mathews and the res of the MSMs favorite 'Conservative' because he slanders Bush and the Iraq war). Didn't Buchanan run for President and get less than 1 percent of the vote? That's embarassing! How then does he have the balls to claim he is the standard bearer of Conservative and say that everyone else is not a true Conservative? Rush Limbaugh is Conservatism. The Blame America First Party of Noam Chomsky, George Soros, Michael Moore, Pat Buchanan, and new initiate Paul Craig Roberts are not.


181 posted on 05/20/2005 3:42:37 PM PDT by Rosemont
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To: Minnesocold

wow, is that dick gebharts brother?
he inherited the same lack of eye brows gene i see.


182 posted on 05/20/2005 3:43:23 PM PDT by 537cant be wrong (vampires stole my lunch money but left me with my bus pass. damn!)
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To: iconoclast; Petronski
Still waiting for your answer.


183 posted on 05/20/2005 3:46:34 PM PDT by rdb3 (One may smile and smile and still be a villain.)
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To: KMAJ2
I am not an idolizer of Bush,

Then, particularly since you are so verbose, 'splain to us why the Bush administration took off after a toothless, secular, despot of a ruined semi-nation instead of pursuing bin Laden or extinguishing the Wahhabi root of the terrorist plague.

You Bush-bot apologists make me puke!

184 posted on 05/20/2005 3:49:34 PM PDT by iconoclast (Conservative, not partisan.)
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To: KidGlock
I don't know what planet that character lives on but the Islamic nuts have been hating the U.S. since the early 1970's. It all came to a head during the term of that democratic hero Jimmah Carter when Iran sponsored the kidnapping of a number of American Citizens. It took a Republican by the name of Ronald Reagan to get those people back.

The First attack on the world trade center occurred during the term of another democratic hero named Clinton. He tried to treat these terrorist like your average everyday criminal. Seeing that Clinton would do nothing these same terrorist blew up a number of American Embassies killing hundreds of people, Still no response. They then attacked an Air Force dormitory killing a number of Airman.

Still seeing No response the terrorists then attacked the U.S.S. Cole and blew a Large hole in the side of the ship killing a number of sailors. Still no reaction by the democratic hero president. The terrorist then felt invulnerable so the decided to attack the world trade center a second time and they succeeded in killing almost 3000 people.

Their only problem was this time they had a President who was going to take the war to them, something they did not expect.

Now some people would say that these terrorist are only a small minority of the Islamic Faith but during the Past 35 years these people have proven that they had the support of their coreligionist and they had the approval and support of their sponsoring governments to kill Americans anywhere in the World.

So Paul Craig Roberts is full of crap. These Islamic Nuts would hate us whether we defended ourselves or not. History proves that.
185 posted on 05/20/2005 3:49:41 PM PDT by puppypusher
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To: Petronski
How terribly tragic it is that no one appreciates your genius...you're so put upon, and unappreciated....it's unjust.

I can live with it.

186 posted on 05/20/2005 3:52:09 PM PDT by iconoclast (Conservative, not partisan.)
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To: KidGlock
Muslims hated the US since the days of Jimmy Carter.

You're being too kind and too short sighted.

Their religion requires them to hate anyone who doesn't share their religious beliefs, so your sentence would read better- Muslims have hated everything the US stands for (including religious tolerance) since Islam was formed.

187 posted on 05/20/2005 3:56:34 PM PDT by Minuteman23
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To: rdb3
Do you agree with PCR's column or not? Yes or no, please.

Abso(f**kin)lutely.

I just wish I could get some straight answers like that!

188 posted on 05/20/2005 3:58:18 PM PDT by iconoclast (Conservative, not partisan.)
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To: KidGlock
Yaaaaawn.....Stoneage Press Hates Bush...blah blah blah....ZZZZZZZZZZZ!!

Pray For W and Our Troops

189 posted on 05/20/2005 3:58:58 PM PDT by bray (Pray for Iraq's Freedom from Mohammad)
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To: Petronski
I'm sorry, but you are one of those on here that do not deserve further tries at connecting you to sanity

Take a timeout and think up your own ripostes.

190 posted on 05/20/2005 3:59:54 PM PDT by iconoclast (Conservative, not partisan.)
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To: iconoclast
"I'm sorry Sir, but you are one of those on here that do not deserve two tries at connecting you to sanity."

Are you serious? If so, you just one today's prize for combined ignorance and arrogance.

191 posted on 05/20/2005 4:00:37 PM PDT by defenderSD ("I am not a troll" said the troll as a thunderous Zot descended on him.)
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To: Petronski

BTW, how bout answering my question?


192 posted on 05/20/2005 4:01:51 PM PDT by iconoclast (Conservative, not partisan.)
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To: KidGlock

Great post..this canuck needed a good laugh after our disaster last week in our federal government where canuckland was voted by the socialist,liberal,progressives to become a banana republic,oops,i mean mickey mouse dictatorship led by none other than our own Mr. Dithers.....this guy is off the moonbat wall..he wants to impeach your courageous and gutsy President for putting the boots to Saddam,Osama,Gore,Kerry and lots more...sheesh the list could go on for hours...you gotta love your moonbats...always good for a belly laugh when you are having a bad hair day...Thanx EH...I needed that..my blood pressure has returned to normal...I needed thatFreepers oxygen!!!!


193 posted on 05/20/2005 4:04:58 PM PDT by bc boy (socialists are on suicide watch in canuckland)
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To: iconoclast
Abso(f**kin)lutely.

Thank you. Nothing further.


194 posted on 05/20/2005 4:05:15 PM PDT by rdb3 (One may smile and smile and still be a villain.)
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To: iconoclast

That should have read "you just won today's prize for combined ignorance and arrogance." I'm getting a little tired at the end of the week. But man, you are a real piece of work. Maybe you should try sipping a beer and calming your arrogance for a few minutes.


195 posted on 05/20/2005 4:06:10 PM PDT by defenderSD ("I am not a troll" said the troll as a thunderous Zot descended on him.)
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To: KidGlock
"Bush’s lies have ... caused 1 billion Muslims to hate America"

That itself is a blatant, hysterical lie. Bush did the right thing for the right reasons and NOT so that so-called journalists will say nice things about him. No good deed goes unpunished, after all and history is full of examples. How about that Lincoln freed the slaves and the majority of African-Americans vote for the Dems (the party of slavery!). Or that the American military men and women have fought and died so that people can have a free press, a free press that hates all that the military is, does and stands for and routinely slanders them. Guess the world isn't fair...or maybe, just maybe what goes around comes around.

196 posted on 05/20/2005 4:06:56 PM PDT by GBA
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To: kcvl

If you find the escape hatch to this surrealistic world, please FReepmail me before you leave.


197 posted on 05/20/2005 4:07:32 PM PDT by iconoclast (Conservative, not partisan.)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham
Doesn't say much for the Hoover Institution, does it?

And you receive all your input from the Whitehouse?

How hopeful and encouraging for an enlightened electorate.

198 posted on 05/20/2005 4:14:54 PM PDT by iconoclast (Conservative, not partisan.)
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To: KidGlock

"Muslims have hated the U.S. since the days of Jimmy Carter"................Actually they have hated all Non-Muslims since the days of Mohammed.


199 posted on 05/20/2005 4:19:27 PM PDT by BnBlFlag (Deo Vindice/Semper Fidelis)
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To: Billthedrill
Let's start over - Bush did not go to war with Iraq over WMD. He did not "lie" to anyone over the issue. He repeated intelligence assessments that were nearly universally believed and were promulgated by Clinton and his staff long before Bush ever got hold of them. These were in error. That's life. The reason no one in Congress is pulling for an impeachment is that they authorized the military intervention themselves in a joint resolution in 2002.

This isn't very complicated, really, and I would hope a fellow of the august Hoover Institute would do a little better than this hysterical ranting.

NO ONE IS PREACHING THAT CRAP, ANYMORE BILL, NOT EVEN THE ADMINISTRQATION!

For heaven's sake stop making a fool of yourself.

200 posted on 05/20/2005 4:19:59 PM PDT by iconoclast (Conservative, not partisan.)
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