. . oh never mind.
No need to read much further.
Muslims hated the US since the days of Jimmy Carter.
His insanity starts right there. Iraq WAS a threat to us. In 1987 they sent two Exocert missiles into the USS STARK killing about 37 sailors. That's enough for me.
I've got news for ya Paul, the Muslims already hated us for a myriad of irrational reasons. Where have you been the last 30 years, hiding in your office contemplating your navel?
Another prime example of unbiased professional reporting from the Fourth Estate.
Are you sure the date is correct? This rant is so "first term".
. . oh never mind.This guy is a total idiot.
However, it is a good thing that the Repubs control both houses, or the Dems would be moving towards impeachment procedings against Bush now.
Why??
They're sore losers and vicious demagogues. This is exactly what they pulled on Nixon after his re-election.
The Dems can't forgive Bush for beating Gore in a close race.
The Dems can't forgive Bush for handling 9-11, Afghanistan and Iraq so well.
The Dems can't forgive Bush for beating Kerry so soundly and picking up additional seats in Congress.
And Bush is merely a "real" moderate, as opposed to phoney liberals like McCain and Whitman, whom the libs are so fond of calling "moderates".
You can imagine what they would be doing if Bush was a real conservative. They would be in the streets shooting.
Because the Democrat Party has incrementally swung so far to the left that they no longer represent majority American thinking on any subject, now or generations saw things previously.
The only thing which keeps the Democrat hate machine plugging along, spewing its venom, and hoping to sacrifice the safety of American citizens and servicement in an attempt to discredit the administration are the RINOs in Congress -like McCain - and the far leftist major media who have so recently demonstrated such a cavlier and criminal disregard for America, the truth, and any principles their "profession" may once have had.
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.
Well if you would like to leave a comment
http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/cgi-bin/roberts.cgi/American%20Empire/A_Reputation_in_Tat.writeback
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You are so right. The Muslim world has always hated us no matter who was President, it's just that the Democrats have been too stupid to catch on. Therefore, their view as expressed in this article.
Perhaps he doesn't know that the Congress has the power to declare war?
George W. Bush and his gang of neocon warmongers have destroyed America’s
heh, heh...I think it is safe to say regarding the above OUTRAGEOUS statment that the following is more like it:
The 60's
Hanoi Jane hangin' out with the enemy
johnny kerry lying before a committee about his brothers in arms
Sex, Drugs and Rock N' Roll
Vietnam Protestors
Don't trust anyone over 30,
Flower Power
Burning draft cards
Burning bras
Burning the American Flag is what destroyed America!!!
So, Chronicles...keeping in mind that the worm turns, justice prevails and Adults are running the country and bringing it back to civility once again. We all know that to be true. Why else all the flap about judges????? Batten down the hatches it's gonna be huge storm.
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."
Crack and meth are not our friends...
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.