Is the Bush Regime a state sponsor of
terrorism?
by Paul
Craig Roberts
May 29, 2006
Is the Bush Regime a state sponsor of terrorism?
A powerful case can be made that it is.
In the past three years the Bush Regime has murdered tens of thousands of Iraqi
civilians and an unknown number of Afghan ones.
US Marines, our finest and proudest military force, are under criminal
investigation for breaking into Iraqi homes and murdering entire families. In an
unprecedented event, General Michael Hagee, the Marine Corps commandant, has
found it necessary to fly to Iraq to tell our best-trained troops to stop
murdering civilians.
General Hagee found it necessary to tell the U.S. Marines: "We do not
employ force just for the sake of employing force. We use lethal force only when
justified, proportional, and most importantly, lawful."
The war criminals in the Bush Regime have dismissed the murders as "collateral
damage," but they are, in fact murders. Otherwise, there would be no criminal
investigations, and the Marine commandant would not be burdened with the
embarrassment of having to fly to Iraq to lecture U.S. Marines on the lawful use
of force.
The criminal Bush Regime has now murdered more Iraqis than Saddam Hussein. The
Bush Regime is also responsible for 20,000 US casualties (dead, maimed for life,
and wounded).
Bush damns the "axis of evil." But who has the "axis of evil" attacked?
Iran has attacked no one. North Korea has attacked no country for more than a
half-century. Iraq attacked Kuwait a decade and a half ago, apparently
after securing permission from the US ambassador.
Isn't the real axis of evil Bush-Blair-Olmert? Bush and Blair have attacked two
countries, slaughtering their citizens. Olmert is urging them on to attack a
third country -- Iran.
Where does the danger to the world reside? In Iran, a small religious country
where the family is intact and the government is constrained by religious
authority and ancient traditions, or in the US where propaganda rules and the
powerful executive branch has removed itself from accountability by breaking the
constitutional restraints on its power?
Why is the US superpower orchestrating fear of puny Iran?
The US government has spent the past half century interfering in the internal
affairs of other countries, overthrowing or assassinating their chosen leaders
and imposing its puppets on foreign peoples. To what country has Iran done this,
or Iraq, or North Korea?
Americans think that they are the salt of the earth. The hubris that comes from
this self-righteous belief makes Americans blind to the evil of their leaders.
How can American leaders be evil when Americans are so good and so wonderful?
How many Serbs were slaughtered by American bombs released from high above the
clouds, and for what reason? Who even remembers the propagandistic lies that the
Clinton administration told us about why we absolutely had to drop bombs on the
Serbs?
Wasn't it evil for the US to bomb Iraq for a decade and to embargo medicines for
children? When US Secretary of State M. Albright was asked if she thought an
embargo that resulted in the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children was justified, she
replied, "yes."
The former terrible tyrant ruler of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, is on trial for
killing 150 people. The US government murdered 500,000 Iraqi children prior to
Bush's invasion. When the US government murders people, whether Serbs, Branch
Davidians at Waco, or Iraqi women and children, it is "collateral damage." But
we put Saddam Hussein on trial for putting down rebellions.
Gentle reader, do you believe that the Bush Regime will not shoot you down in
the streets if you have a rebellion?
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Dr. Roberts [send him mail] is
Chairman of the Institute for Political Economy and Research Fellow at the
Independent Institute. He is a former
associate editor of the Wall Street Journal, former contributing editor
for National Review, and was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the
Reagan administration. He is the co-author of
The
Tyranny of Good Intentions.
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