Twist and Hate -- The Smearing of Paul Craig Roberts

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By Joshua Frank -- World News Trust

It is questionable whether or not responding to the neocons’ assault on sanity is worth the energy. They don’t take well to reason and they certainly aren’t capable of dealing with truth. In fact the reality in which they dwell is a manifestation of propaganda and isolated conspiracy theories.

Yeah, they think we are out to get them and that we’ll destroy their comfortable way of life. And what seems to be driving their delusional tendencies is the teaming up of traditional conservatives, libertarians and lefties -- all of whom oppose the neocon wars.

Take FrontPageMag.com, which recently went after the conservative, yet rational, Paul Craig Roberts, former contributing editor to the National Review and the Wall Street Journal. As FrontPageMag editor Ben Johnson wrote in disgust of Roberts’ common sense which ran in LewRockwell.com:

"Roberts has declared the war in Iraq lost, not to mention criminal. Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay are ‘torture centers,’ and Bush would be ‘prosecuted’ … His pessimism about winning the War on Terror dates literally to its inception. Two days after 9/11, Roberts wrote, ‘a guilt-ridden people are no match for fanatical opponents who believe in their cause’ … His writings also seemingly justify terrorist attacks against innocent Americans, because, like Ward Churchill, he believes there are no innocent Americans. ‘Americans are complicit in the deaths of tens of thousands of Iraqi women and children as ‘collateral damage,’ he writes. So what is the difference between a military target and a ‘complicit’ family of four in Des Moines?"


As if being anti-neocon somehow implies that Roberts is also anti-American. Johnson also distorted a recent column written by Roberts in which he relayed several conspiracy theories passed along to him by readers which explained how Bush might start a war with Iran.

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1. This sentence here is an outright lie:

"His writings also seemingly justify terrorist attacks against innocent Americans, because, like Ward Churchill, he believes there are no innocent Americans."

Neither one of these men believe what Ben Johnson accuses them of believing. That method of arguement is used so often by right wingers.

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2. 'they do see eye-to-eye on the destructive nature of the warfare state."

Yes. That's it. It doesn't matter what you are: Dem, Green, Libertarian or Conservative, any FREEDOM LOVING American should be appalled by neocon fascism. Period.