Lie and Lie Again Nothing to Fear But Bush Himself :PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS

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As Things Fall Apart, Lie and Lie Again
Nothing to Fear But Bush Himself
By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS( served in the Reagan administration)

http://www.counterpunch.org/
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.

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."

[Martin Eden]

1. Absolutely Scathing!

Utter disgust drips from every word of this essay by Paul Craig Roberts, who has impeccable conservative credentials. He refers to Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Rice, Cheney and Bush as the "five morons" and he rips them to shreds.

[bread_and_roses]

5. "scathing" is perfect word!

This article gave me a brief lift...seeing an old Reaganite calling the puppet occupant of the WH a "buffoon."

[MISSDem]

2. Scary.

Why is the Congress just going along like nothing is wrong. Rice confirmed. Gonzales confirmed. Next is the nominee for homeland security. If that confirmation happens all is lost.

[hadrons]

3. I love it ....

Paul Craig Roberts deserves a valentine

[mhr]

4. Direct Link

http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts02122005.html