Bush Has Destroyed Iraq and America
by Paul Craig Roberts
by Paul Craig Roberts
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Every American who voted Republican shares
responsibility for the great evil America has brought to the
Middle East.
The evil that America brought to Iraq transcends
the tens or hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians who have
been killed and maimed in the conflict. The evil goes beyond the
destruction of ancient historical artifacts and the civilian
infrastructure of a secular state and the decimation of the
lives, careers, and families of millions of Iraqis.
The violence and killing that Bush brought to Iraq
has spread antagonism between Sunni and Shiite throughout the
Middle East with potentially draconian consequences. Bushs war
has turned Muslim hearts and minds against America and made
terrorism an acceptable means to resist American hegemony. With
his mindless war, Bush has created more terrorism than the world
has ever seen.
The reasons given for the American invasion of Iraq
have been exposed as lies, revealing America as either a country
of fools and idiots or of war criminals. Worldwide polls show
that America is no longer regarded as a guiding light but is
tied with Israel as the second greatest threat to world
stability.
The nuclear-armed Russians, alarmed by Americas
gratuitous aggression and interference in Russian and Middle
Eastern internal affairs and by Bushs aggressive withdrawal on
June 13, 2002 from the 1972 anti-ballistic missile treaty, no
longer see the US as a partner in peace but as a dangerous
militaristic aggressor. The chance for understanding and trust with
Russia has been destroyed by the stupid Bush administration. The
White House Moron, who cannot successfully occupy Baghdad, believes
he can run over Russia.
Former CIA director George "Slam-Dunk" Tenet writes
in a new book, At the Center of the Storm: My
years at the CIA that Vice President Dick Cheney and the
neoconservatives caused America to invade Iraq without ever
holding a serious debate about whether Iraq was a threat. Tenet
writes: "There was never a serious debate that I know of within
the administration about the imminence of the Iraqi threat."
The 2003 American invasion of Iraq is a war crime
under international law. The invasion caused sectarian violence
far beyond anything Iraq had ever experienced under Saddam
Hussein. Tenet writes that "sectarian violence in Iraq has taken
on a life of its own and that US forces are becoming more and
more irrelevant to the management of that violence."
Tenet says that Dick Cheney made him a scapegoat
for the disastrous war by misrepresenting to media what he meant
by "slam-dunk." Interviewed by "60 Minutes," Tenet said that the
administration misrepresented his comment to mean that the case
was air tight that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass
destruction. Tenet states that the Bush administrations
misrepresentation of what he said is "the most despicable thing
that ever happened" to him.
The American people have never been told the real
reasons that Bush-Cheney and the Republican Party rushed us to
war in Iraq. Americans have only been fed a pack of transparent
lies.
The war has brought no honor, no glory, and no
tangible benefit. The war has brought shame upon America for
routine torture of Iraqi detainees and for the routine slaughter
of unarmed Iraqi civilians mothers, fathers, children,
grandparents by trigger-happy American troops. There are even
reports of US mercenaries having fun riding around taking pot
shots at Iraqi civilians.
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Billions of dollars in "aid" are missing. The
stench of corruption is heavy in the air. There are myriad
investigations of Bush administration and contractor corruption.
Who can keep up with them all? Cheneys Halliburton, the
greatest hog at the trough, has not been indicted. The missing
suitcases of cash have not been recovered. The earnest efforts
of Congress have taken on a pathetic, plodding life of their own.
In an article just published in the Armed Forces
Journal, Lt. Col. Paul Yingling, one of the commanders of the
3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment in Iraq, condemns American generals
as " mild-mannered team players" who "are not worthy of their
soldiers" and who "underestimated the strength of the enemy,
overestimated the capabilities of Iraqs government and security
forces and failed to provide Congress with an accurate
assessment of security conditions in Iraq."
Captains, majors, and lieutenant colonels are
frustrated with the political cowardice of their general
officers and are leaving the service in droves. The Army is
trying to improve retention by offering $20,000 cash payments to
the officers another stupid Bush administration policy as any
officer who sells his soul is demoralized.
Col. Yingling writes that Congress must step in and
break up the way administrations use promotions to acquire
compliant generals as accomplices in deceiving the American
people.
The most frightening fact about the Bush administration is that
not a single office is held by a competent or qualified person.
Integrity is so rare among Bush appointees that integrity has
been silenced.
That should concern all Americans. Even Republicans.
April 30, 2007
Paul Craig Roberts [send him mail]
wrote the Kemp-Roth bill and 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
author or coauthor of eight books, including The Supply-Side
Revolution (Harvard University Press).
He has held numerous academic appointments, including the
William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy, Center for
Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University and
Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
He has contributed to numerous scholar journals and testified before
Congress on 30 occasions. He has been awarded the U.S. Treasury's
Meritorious Service Award and the French Legion of Honor. He was
a reviewer for the Journal of Political Economy
under editor Robert Mundell. He is the co-author of The
Tyranny of Good Intentions. He is also coauthor with
Karen Araujo of Chile: Dos Visiones La Era Allende-Pinochet
(Santiago: Universidad Andres Bello, 2000).
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