Is the Bush Regime a Sponsor of State Terrorism?
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- Date: 29 May 2006 12:08:05 -0700
The Evil Within --
By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS*
Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the
Reagan administration. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street
Journal editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review. He
is coauthor of The Tyranny of Good Intentions.He can be reached at:
paulcraigroberts@xxxxxxxxx
Is the Bush regime a sponsor of state terrorism?
A powerful case can be made that it is.
In the past three years the Bush Regime has murdered tens of thousands
of Iraqi civilians and an unknown number of Afghan ones.
US Marines, our finest and proudest military force, are under criminal
investigation for breaking into Iraqi homes and murdering entire
families. In an unprecedented event, General Michael Hagee, the Marine
Corps commandant, has found it necessary to fly to Iraq to tell our
best trained troops to stop murdering civilians.
General Hagee found it necessary to tell the U.S. Marines: "We do not
employ force just for the sake of employing force. We use lethal force
only when justified, proportional, and most importantly, lawful."
The war criminals in the Bush Regime have dismissed the murders as
"collateral damage," but they are in fact murders. Otherwise, there
would be no criminal investigations, and the Marine commandant would
not be burdened with the embarrassment of having to fly to Iraq to
lecture US Marines on the lawful use of force.
The criminal Bush Regime has now murdered more Iraqis than Saddam
Hussen. The Bush Regime is also responsible for 20,000 US casualties
(dead, maimed for life, and wounded).
Bush damns the "axis of evil." But who has the "axis of evil" attacked?
Iran has attacked no one. North Korea has attacked no country for more
than a half century. Iraq attacked Kuiwait a decade and a half ago,
apparently after securing permission from the US ambassador.
Isn't the real axis of evil Bush-Blair-Olmert? Bush and Blair have
attacked two countries, slaughtering their citizens. Olmert is urging
them on to attack a third country--Iran.
Where does the danger to the world reside? In Iran, a small religious
country where the family is intact and the government is constrained by
religious authority and ancient traditions, or in the US where
propaganda rules and the powerful executive branch has removed itself
from accountability by breaking the constitutional restraints on its
power?
Why is the US superpower orchestrating fear of puny Iran?
The US government has spent the past half century interfering in the
internal affairs of other countries, overthrowing or assassinating
their chosen leaders and imposing its puppets on foreign peoples. To
what country has Iran done this, or Iraq, or North Korea?
Americans think that they are the salt of the earth. The hubris that
comes from this self-righteous belief makes Americans blind to the evil
of their leaders. How can American leaders be evil when Americans are
so good and so wonderful?
How many Serbs were slaughtered by American bombs released from high
above the clouds, and for what reason? Who even remembers the
propagandistic lies that the Clinton administration told us about why
we absolutely had to drop bombs on the Serbs?
Wasn't it evil for the US to bomb Iraq for a decade and to embargo
medicines for children? When US Secretary of State M. Albright was
asked if she thought an embargo that resulted in the deaths of 500,000
Iraqi children was justified, she replied, "yes."
The former terrible tyrant ruler of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, is on trial
for killing 150 people. The US government murdered 500,000 Iraqi
children prior to Bush's invasion. When the US government murders
people, whether Serbs, Branch Davidians at Waco, or Iraqi women and
children, it is "collateral damage." But we put Saddam Hussein on trial
for putting down rebellions.
Gentle reader, do you believe that the Bush Regime will not shoot you
down in the streets if you have a rebellion?
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Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the
Reagan administration. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street
Journal editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review. He
is coauthor of The Tyranny of Good Intentions.He can be reached at:
paulcraigroberts@xxxxxxxxx
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