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More Shame, More Sorrow
Paul Craig Roberts
V Dare
Wednesday Aug 29, 2007
In the administration of George W. Bush, the Republican Party
has achieved the greatest combination of idiocy and evil in human
history.
The Republicans have bogged America down in a gratuitous and
illegal war. The war has destroyed Iraq, killed between 650,000
and 1,000,000 Iraqi civilians, displaced 4,000,000 Iraqis, and
littered the country with depleted uranium. Bush’s war remains
unwon despite its five year duration and $1 trillion in out-of-pocket
and incurred future costs.
Bush’s invasion of Iraq is a war crime under the Nuremberg standard,
a direct counterpart to Hitler’s invasion of Poland. Both were
based on lies and deception, and the declared reasons for both
were masks for secret agendas.
Bush’s invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, his planned attack
on Iran [See Considering a war with Iran: A discussion paper
on WMD in the Middle East,
PDF], and his support for Israel’s attack on Lebanon and genocidal
policies toward the Palestinians have radicalized the Middle East
and Muslims worldwide. American and Israeli aggression have vindicated
Osama bin Laden’s propaganda, produced massive recruits for Al
Qaeda, and unleashed destabilizing forces throughout the Middle
East
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Bush’s wars are strengthening Islam. Abdullah Gul has just been
elected president of Turkey. Gul is described by the American
media as
"former Islamist." Gul is supported by the ruling
political party of prime minister Erdogan, another "former
Islamist."
Gul’s election to the presidency by 76% of the Turkish parliament
has upset Turkey’s secularized military, long in the pay of the
US government. On August 27 Turkey’s military chief, General Yasar
Buyukanit, declared that "centers of evil" "systematically
try to corrode the secular nature of the Turkish Republic."
[ Turkish
army warns of 'centres of evil' over Gul, By Donald Macintyre,
Independent, (UK) August 28, 2007]The Turkish military, many believe
at the request and pay of the US, has overthrown four Turkish
governments since 1960, the last only 10 years ago.
With President Bush’s rant about " bringing
democracy to the Middle East," the Turkish military
is less able to impose Western values on an Islamic people. Similarly,
the American puppet in Egypt cannot as easily suppress the Islamic
values and aspirations of Egyptians.
US puppet rulers in Jordan and Pakistan, and even the Saudis
and oil emirates, report the ground shaking under their feet.
America’s puppet in Pakistan is in trouble, and his difficulties
are compounded by US military incursions into Pakistan. The Bush
administration is considering contingency plans to seize Pakistan’s
nuclear weapons in the event the American puppet is overthrown,
delusional contingency plans considering the over-stretched US
military.
In the postwar years, the US managed with its money and influence
to secularize an elite class in Middle Eastern countries, an elite
that identifies with the West and not with their own cultures.
This artificial elite has produced a wide political gap between
the masses of the people and the rulers. Increasingly, Muslim
masses perceive their rulers as allied with foreign powers against
them.
In Iraq the American puppet government of Nuri al-Maliki seems
to be on its last legs. The Sunnis have pulled their support,
as has the most important Shi’ite leader, Muqtada al-Sadr, who
realizes that the Maliki government is too complicit in US crimes
to be a legitimate government of Iraq. With both the Bush administration
and Congress blaming Maliki for America’s failure in Iraq, Maliki’s
fate looks increasingly to be that of Ngo Dinh Diem, America’s
Vietnam puppet who was blamed for the failure of US intervention
in Vietnam.
Just as Hitler long denied German defeats on the Russian front
and even in his last days was ordering non-existent German divisions
to relieve Berlin, the Bush regime finds a new straw to grasp
in Iraq each time the previous straw proves to be a delusion.
The latest straw is "the surge." While Americans
surge, the British have been defeated in southern Iraq and have
withdrawn to two bases in eerie similarity to the French at Dien
Bien Phu. The British bases are subjected to between 30 and 60
mortar and rocket attacks each day. British generals want their
troops out of Iraq. The longer UK Prime Minister Brown keeps them
in Iraq in order to appease the Bush administration, the harder
it will be to rescue the survivors.
With American retreat south to Kuwait now potentially cut off,
how will the US extract its troops and equipment when American
defeat can no longer be denied?
The Bush administration and its politicized military are already
blaming the failure of "the surge" on Iran. Iran
is alleged to be training and arming Iraqis who resist the US
occupation. Bush has said he will hold Iran responsible. There
is abundant evidence that the Bush administration is preparing
yet another illegal attack on a Muslim country without assessing
the consequences.
The Bush administration seems destined to produce such disasters
that it will be driven to the use of nuclear weapons in order
to avoid defeat. The Bush administration possesses the combination
of evil and stupidity required to escalate a failed "cakewalk
war" into a nuclear one.
Many of the administration’s most evil members—Wolfowitz, Feith,
Libby, Rumsfeld, Rove, and Gonzales—have been discarded as the
tragedy deepens, but Cheney remains ensconced as does the moron
in the White House. Before they fall, Bush and Cheney will bring
more sorrow to the world and more shame to Americans.
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