Nothing to Fear But Bush Himself

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Mon, 14 Feb 2005 12:07:13 -0800 (PST)

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

 

 

This from a REPUBLICAN member of Ronald Reagan's Cabinet!

 

As Things Fall Apart, Lie and Lie Again

Nothing to Fear But Bush Himself

By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS

 

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.

 

Here is Rumsfeld excusing himself for his dismal failures in Iraq:

" Partly it's [the insurgency] a function of what the Syrians and the

Iranians are doing. "

 

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. "

 

The insurgency, according to the Five Morons, is because Iraq and Iran

won't close their borders, thus letting in " terrorists " who are

responsible for the insurgency. Some might think that this accusation

is an example of the pot calling the kettle black coming as it does

from the US, a country that has not only proven itself incapable of

closing its own borders but also has demonstrated no respect whatsoever

for the borders of other countries.

 

The Bush administration, which already held the world record as the

most deluded government in history, has now taken denial to

unprecedented highs by blaming Syria and Iran for its " Iraqi problem. "

Why didn't Americans realize that it is dangerous to put a buffoon in

charge of the US government who hasn't a clue about the world around

him, what he is doing or the consequences of his actions?

 

Why is Secretary of State Rice trying to set Iran up for UN

sanctions--which the US can manipulate to justify invading another

Muslim country--when the US has proven to the world that it cannot

occupy Baghdad, much less Iraq?

 

Are Iran and Syria going to quake in their boots after witnessing the

success of a few thousand insurgents in tying down 8 US divisions? The

bulk of the US force in Iraq is engaged in protecting its own bases and

supply lines. It was all the generals could do to scrape up 10,000

Marines for their pointless assault on Fallujah.

 

What is the point of the Bush administration's bellicosity when it has

been conclusively demonstrated that the US has insufficient troops to

successfully occupy Iraq, much less Syria and Iran? The American people

should be scared to death that they have put in power such deluded

people.

 

Are Americans going to fall for the same set of WMD lies a second time?

Are Americans going to deliver up their sons, and perhaps daughters as

well, to be drafted and sent to the Middle East to be killed and maimed

for no American cause?

 

The US Treasury is empty. The once " almighty " dollar is tottering. The

US military is stretched to the breaking point. Former allies look

askance at America. Hatred of America has reached an all time high.

 

The Bush administration must bring its policies in line with its means

before it leads our country into greater disaster. The Bush

administration and its deluded sycophants must stop poking fun at

" reality-based " experts and listen to a reality-based message.

 

There is no possibility of the US imposing its will on the Muslim

world. By its behavior the Bush administration is confirming Osama bin

Laden's propaganda and breeding more terrorists. Much better to address

the causes of Muslim discontent--America's enabling of the Israeli

government's mistreatment and dispossession of the Palestinians, and

America's export of " culture " that glorifies the sexual promiscuity of

women.

 

It does not serve America for Bush to impose Ariel Sharon's agenda on

the Middle East. Bush's insane policy is producing rising anger that

endangers Israel and America's puppet governments in Egypt, Jordan, and

Pakistan along with the Saudi regime. Ironically, this is recognized by

Egypt's Mubarak and Jordan's King Abdullah, who was unable to refrain

from pointing out that Bush has managed to create a Shi'ite crescent

from Iran to Lebanon.

 

What, King Abdullah wonders, will be the next unintended consequence of

the moronic administration that the American people in their superior

wisdom and virtue have seen fit to empower in Washington. " If our aim

is to win against terrorism, we can't afford more instability in the

area, " warned the king prior to the ill-fated US invasion of Iraq.

" It's the potential Armageddon of Iraq that worries all of us. "

 

It should worry Americans, too.

 

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.He can be reached at:

pcroberts

 

 

 

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