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Thread ID: 16734 | Posts: 4 | Started: 2005-02-13
2005-02-13 16:09 | User Profile
February 12, 2005 We Have Nothing to Fear But Bush Himself by Paul Craig Roberts
Suppose you are the party responsible for invading a country under totally false pretenses. Suppose you had totally unrealistic expectations about the consequences of your gratuitous aggression.
What do you do when, instead of being greeted with flowers, you find your army is tied down by insurgents and you have no face-saving way to get out of the morass? If you are the moronic Bush Administration, you blame someone else.
Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Rice, Cheney and Bush blame Syria and Iran for the troubles that they brought upon themselves. The Iraqi insurgency, say the Five Morons, is the fault of Syria and Iran.
Here is Rumsfeld excusing himself for his dismal failures in Iraq: "Partly it's [the insurgency] a function of what the Syrians and the Iranians are doing."
You see, the facts that the US invaded Iraq on false pretenses, killed and maimed tens of thousands of Iraqis, shot down women and children in the streets, blew up Iraqis' homes, hospitals and mosques, cut Iraqis off from vital services such as water and electricity, destroyed the institutions of civil society, left half the population without means of livelihood, filled up prisons with people picked up off the streets and then tortured and humiliated them for fun and games are not facts that explain why there is an insurgency. These facts are just descriptions of collateral damage associated with America "bringing democracy to Iraq."
The insurgency, according to the Five Morons, is because Syria and Iran won't close their borders, thus letting in "terrorists" who are responsible for the insurgency. Some might think that this accusation is an example of the pot calling the kettle black coming as it does from the US, a country that has not only proven itself incapable of closing its own borders but also has demonstrated no respect whatsoever for the borders of other countries.
The Bush administration, which already held the world record as the most deluded government in history, has now taken denial to unprecedented highs by blaming Syria and Iran for its "Iraqi problem." Why didn't Americans realize that it is dangerous to put a buffoon in charge of the US government who hasn't a clue about the world around him, what he is doing or the consequences of his actions?
Why is Secretary of State Rice trying to set Iran up for UN sanctions ââ¬â which the US can manipulate to justify invading another Muslim country ââ¬â when the US has proven to the world that it cannot occupy Baghdad, much less Iraq?
Are Iran and Syria going to quake in their boots after witnessing the success of a few thousand insurgents in tying down eight US divisions? The bulk of the US force in Iraq is engaged in protecting its own bases and supply lines. It was all the generals could do to scrape up 10,000 Marines for their pointless assault on Fallujah.
What is the point of the Bush administration's bellicosity when it has been conclusively demonstrated that the US has insufficient troops to successfully occupy Iraq, much less Syria and Iran? The American people should be scared to death that they have put in power such deluded people.
Are Americans going to fall for the same set of WMD lies a second time? Are Americans going to deliver up their sons, and perhaps daughters as well, to be drafted and sent to the Middle East to be killed and maimed for no American cause?
The US Treasury is empty. The once "almighty" dollar is tottering. The US military is stretched to the breaking point. Former allies look askance at America. Hatred of America has reached an all time high.
The Bush administration must bring its policies in line with its means before it leads our country into greater disaster. The Bush administration and its deluded sycophants must stop poking fun at "reality-based" experts and listen to a reality-based message.
There is no possibility of the US imposing its will on the Muslim world. By its behavior the Bush administration is confirming Osama bin Laden's propaganda and breeding more terrorists. Much better to address the causes of Muslim discontent, i.e., America's enabling of the Israeli government's mistreatment and dispossession of the Palestinians.
It does not serve America for Bush to impose Ariel Sharon's agenda on the Middle East. Bush's insane policy is producing rising anger that endangers Israel and America's puppet governments in Egypt, Jordan, and Pakistan along with the Saudi regime. Ironically, this is recognized by Egypt's Mubarak and Jordan's King Abdullah, who was unable to refrain from pointing out that Bush has managed to create a Shi'ite crescent from Iran to Lebanon.
What, King Abdullah wonders, will be the next unintended consequence of the moronic administration that the American people in their superior wisdom and virtue have seen fit to empower in Washington? "If our aim is to win against terrorism, we can't afford more instability in the area," warned the king prior to the ill-fated US invasion of Iraq. "It's the potential Armageddon of Iraq that worries all of us."
It should worry Americans, too.
[url]http://www.antiwar.com/roberts/?articleid=4820[/url]
2005-02-14 01:15 | User Profile
Good stuff from Roberts. King Abdullah should be worried. Not because an accidental armageddon might happen, but because the intentional one is underway. The "nuclear option" is almost a certainty should we proceed against Syria, Iran and eventually Egypt.
Egypt? Who said anything about Egypt? Well, [URL=http://slate.msn.com/?id=2069119]this guy[/URL], for one. Laurent Murawiec addressed the Defense Policy Board, Richard Perle's playgroup, with the blessings of Rumsfeld (who marches to Perle's tune, of course) in mid-2002. There was some outrage, but never any real distancing from the strategy Murawiec outlined.
We're going all in, folks. Big time. Teach your children, and prepare to move those children of both sexes to safer climes at the appropriate age. I hear those New Zealand passports are not too difficult to obtain...
2005-02-14 01:35 | User Profile
The power to be wants those countries to close their borders against fighters coming in with weapons and yet the US can't close their own borders against civilians coming in without weapons, lol .
I don't know if you know this but Russia is selling weapond to Saudi Arabia who is supposed to be one of our "allies" in the Middle East, I wonder what the hech is going on?.
The world is now being devided between China and Russia in regards to taking sides and meanwhile the US sits back and call everyone a "terrorist" and does nothing in order to make more friends and to the contrary they are making more enemys.
The only way that you can have "freedom" is if you fight for your land instead of having someone give you your "freedom" like the US and the Zionists are doing in Palestine and the US in Iraq.
"Peace under the gun is not peace but occupation"......Ponce
2005-02-14 02:02 | User Profile
Weisbrot,
That is my fear as well. The administration keeps talking about developing "mininukes", obstensibly to take out bunkers containing unconventional ordnance. I've always thought with this gang of religious zealots and criminals that they had a hidden purpose. Short of preparing for a conventional war which means a draft that is the only military option they have if you accept that the Iranians have all this nasty stuff and it needs to be removed. Conventional air strikes will more likely than not be ineffective save causing an Iranian retaliation. I'd love the see Bush scare everyone to the point that Congress is forced to remove his incompetent butt and everyone else's in what I'm starting to think is an administration that is even worse than Carter's.