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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’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

Muslims never hated America until Bush became President. Everybody knows that.

IT'S ALL BUSH'S FAULT!

21 posted on 05/20/2005 1:35:48 PM PDT by Luna (Lobbing the Holy Hand Grenade at Liberalism)
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To: KidGlock

"Muslims hated the US since the days of Jimmy Carter."

Longer than that. Since Oct, 1973.


22 posted on 05/20/2005 1:35:53 PM PDT by Vn_survivor_67-68
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To: KidGlock
A Reputation in Tatters

Mr. Roberts could be referring to himself here.

23 posted on 05/20/2005 1:36:00 PM PDT by Logophile
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To: KidGlock; rmlew
Muslims hated the US since the days of Jimmy Carter Thomas Jefferson.
24 posted on 05/20/2005 1:36:06 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative (Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Andrew Heyward's got to go!)
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To: nuffsenuff

His column used to be in the Washington Times and I read him after 9/11 but was struck by the unrelenting negativity. It got so bad that I just stopped reading him and I don't believe the Times runs his columns anymore or if he's widely syndicated. I sense he's a nuttier version of John McLaughlin and Pat Buchanan--conservatives who jumped the shark.

I was surprised to see him posted on this site and how far he's come from even when I was reading him.

That's all I know.


25 posted on 05/20/2005 1:36:27 PM PDT by Patriot from Philly
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To: areafiftyone

So what's his problem?


26 posted on 05/20/2005 1:36:30 PM PDT by nuffsenuff
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To: KidGlock

Somebody drank a full pitcher of Kool-aid.

27 posted on 05/20/2005 1:36:36 PM PDT by Minnesocold
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To: KidGlock

When did Paul Craig Roberts turn into a girly-man?


28 posted on 05/20/2005 1:37:38 PM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: nuffsenuff

Crystal Meth, would be my guess.


29 posted on 05/20/2005 1:38:30 PM PDT by DHerion
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To: KidGlock
Paul Craig Roberts is the John M. Olin fellow at the Institute for Political Economy, a research fellow at the Independent Institute, and senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution.

This claptrap is written by a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution ?

Is that a local high school ?

30 posted on 05/20/2005 1:39:29 PM PDT by oldbrowser (You lost the election.....get over it.)
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To: DHerion

Is he angry that he's been cut out of the loop?

Something must have triggered this craziness.


31 posted on 05/20/2005 1:39:38 PM PDT by nuffsenuff
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To: KidGlock
Abundant evidence now exists in the public domain to convict George W. Bush of the crime of the century.

And yet no one has proposed Articles of Impeachment. Perhaps the 'abundant evidence' does not actually support what Mr. Roberts imagines.

Well. Maybe he will run for Congress in 2006, write the Articles himself and garner sufficient support to move the process forward.

32 posted on 05/20/2005 1:39:40 PM PDT by siunevada
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To: All

This moronic pinhead doesn't explain why the "over 1 billion sold" fanatical muslims hated us PRIOR to the Iraq war. Must be the heat.


33 posted on 05/20/2005 1:40:01 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (We did not lose in Vietnam. We left.)
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To: nuffsenuff

The man seems to be quoting the DU Mantra! "Impeach Bush" Must be hanging out there too long!


34 posted on 05/20/2005 1:40:11 PM PDT by areafiftyone (Politicians Are Like Diapers, Both Need To Be Changed Often And For The Same Reason!)
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To: keithtoo

PC Roberts is a "Paleolibertarian."


35 posted on 05/20/2005 1:40:17 PM PDT by Clemenza (Now it's dark...)
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To: KidGlock

What planet has this doofus been on?

The only time "the world" does not hate the USA is when we have linguini spined cowards such as carter or clinton in the oval office. Then they just laugh at the USA.

What this intelectual midget is really trying to say is that Bush has humiliated and trashed the hopes the LEFT had of making the usa the ussa. What has this example of mono cellular brain power bunched his undies in a bind is that the demonstrated STRENGTH of the USA as lead by GWBush had by contrast shown how IMPOTENT and ineffective any leadership by democrats continues to produce.

This fine upstanding example of cranial to rectal insertion has no interest in solutions, he only wants to claim the perpetual problem. The same perpetual carter-esque USA -USSR negotiations which keep the elites of perversion in perpetual ponderance of their belly buttons.

If anything this nurological short circuit has failed to see that an IMPEACHMENT CONVICTION HAS BEEN PASSED JUDGMENT by the voters. For OVER TWENTY years the democrat party has been subject to enforcemnt of that conviction and they have been suffering the electoral execution by 1000 votes. The democrat ('gay') party has been removed vote by vote, office by office by the citizens.

The citizens are the ultimate judge, jury and executioner of all political careers.

Perhaps this author should go back to woodstock where he can sit naked in the mud, smoke more pot, do more illegal drugs, listen to more badly played music, and hope the adults are kind enough to mercifully bring him something to eat.








(too strong?)


36 posted on 05/20/2005 1:40:19 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE!)
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To: Phantom Lord

There WAS a campaign to get germans to "like us", it was lead by Nevil Chamberlin.


37 posted on 05/20/2005 1:41:40 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE!)
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To: KidGlock

". . in matters of foreign policy paleoconservatives actually share much in common with the American left . ."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/paleoconservative#paleoconservatives_in_modern_America


38 posted on 05/20/2005 1:42:21 PM PDT by tumblindice (Paleontology: the study of fossil remains)
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To: GodBlessRonaldReagan
Is this the same Paul Craig Roberts whose columns G. Gordon Liddy would read on his show? If so, wot happen?

Yes.

And I don't know.

39 posted on 05/20/2005 1:42:26 PM PDT by KidGlock (Get in the pit and try to love some one)
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To: KidGlock
Yo RAT morons!

You LOST and are losing and are losers. Keep whining and sinking deeper and deeper.
40 posted on 05/20/2005 1:42:43 PM PDT by Leo Carpathian (FReeeePeee!)
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