Americans Have Lost Their Country (Paul Roberts- Reagan Administration)

[IChing]

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.


We are witnessing the triumph of a dozen evil men over American democracy and a free press.>>>snip

The Bush-Cheney regime is America’s first neoconservative regime. In a few short years, the regime has destroyed the Bill of Rights, the separation of powers, the Geneva Conventions, and the remains of America’s moral reputation along with the infrastructures of two Muslim countries and countless thousands of Islamic civilians. Plans have been prepared, and forces moved into place, for an attack on a third Islamic country, Iran, and perhaps Syria and Hezbollah in Lebanon as well.

This extraordinary aggressiveness toward the US Constitution, international law, and the Islamic world is the work, not of a vast movement, but of a handful of ideologues--principally Vice President Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Lewis Libby, Douglas Feith, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Elliott Abrams, Zalmay Khalilzad, John Bolton, Philip Zelikow, and Attorney General Gonzales. These are the main operatives who have controlled policy. They have been supported by their media shills at the Weekly Standard, National Review, Fox News, New York Times, CNN, and the Wall Street Journal editorial page and by “scholars” in assorted think tanks such as the American Enterprise Institute.

The entirety of their success in miring the United States in what could become permanent conflict in the Middle East is based on the power of propaganda and the big lie. >>>>snip

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17216.htm

[BayCityProgressive]

1. completely true

a free and Democratic US is on it's deathbed...but this began with Reagan not Bush.

[IChing]

3. I was amazed to read who wrote this.

A Reagan appointee and editor of the WSJ.

[Blue_In_AK]

2. That's a powerful editorial

and all the more so given the author's credentials.

[Pierre.Suave]

4. Good article

thanks for posting it.

[glitch]

5. A dozen evil men and hundreds of complicit men and women. The banality of evil...

He ends with "We are witnessing the triumph of a dozen evil men over American democracy and a free press."

[NRaleighLiberal]

6. And the they have been aided and abetted by the American Idol-fixated masses -

those who thrill at the next vanishing Aruba blonde, wet themselves over the next Anna Nicole blurb - instead of reading, educating themselves, calling congressfolk, protesting - as long as the masses have their sofas, their big screen TVs, and the mind-numbing shit that is fed to them constantly, they are fine. Our current American culture has made the thievery very easy.

[melody]

7. and when you look at the neocons' connections with the Henry Jackson Society

It does make me wonder if the destruction of our Constitution and everything else wasn't Cheney & Co's goal in the
first place.

Great article -- thanks for posting it.