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EV_Ares Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-08-07 08:31 AM
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Americans Have Lost Their Country
By Paul Craig Roberts

"ICH" -- -- 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.

Initially, the 9/11 attack was blamed on Osama bin Laden, but after an American puppet was installed in Afghanistan, the blame for 9/11 was shifted to Iraq’s Saddam Hussein, who was said to have weapons of mass destruction that would be used against America. The regime sent Secretary of State Colin Powell to tell the lie to the UN that the Bush-Cheney regime had conclusive proof of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.

Having conned the UN, Congress, and the American people, the regime invaded Iraq under totally false pretenses and with totally false expectations. The regime’s occupation of Iraq has failed in a military sense, but the neoconservatives are turning their failure into a strategic advantage. At the beginning of this year President Bush began blaming Iran for America’s embarrassing defeat by a few thousand lightly armed insurgents in Iraq.

Bush accuses Iran of arming the Iraqi insurgents, a charge that experts regard as improbable. The Iraqi insurgents are Sunni. They inflict casualties on our troops, but spend most of their energy killing Iraqi Shi’ites, who are closely allied with Iran, which is Shi’ite. Bush’s accusation requires us to believe that Iran is arming the enemies of its allies.

(entire article @ link below)

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

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tabasco Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-08-07 08:38 AM
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1. If we ever get it back, we must punish the people who subverted our government .
There was never justice for those involved with the traitorous Iran-Contra subversion and other serious crimes under Reagan.

This helped the current regime of profiteers to gain control.

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Palladin Donating Member (174 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-08-07 08:52 AM
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2. There is only one opposing force
to this neocon rolling conspiracy. The remnant American military loyal to the Constitution and traditional American values. Their hour may come with the looming financial collapse of the Empire. k & r
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-08-07 08:54 AM
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3. the super-wealthy have taken over
the repuke criminal bush cabal has never been held accountable for crimes, dating back to the late 19th Century. Why would they be now?
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