The Failure of America as a Moral Force
By: Paul Craig Roberts|30 January, 2007|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: failure america moral force
President George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq is the greatest crime of the 21st century. Armed with a powerful moral case against Bush, whose lies are responsible for a war that has caused thousands of US casualties and killed vast numbers of Iraqi civilians, Democratic leaders are damning Bush’s war because it did not succeed! The Bush Regime lied and…
Read more »Bush Is About To Attack Iran—Why Can't Americans See it?
By: Paul Craig Roberts|26 January, 2007|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Americans . Can't . George Bush . Iran—Why . See
The American public and the US Congress are getting their backs up about the Bush Regime’s determination to escalate the war in Iraq. A massive protest demonstration is occurring in Washington DC today, and Congress is expressing its disagreement with Bush’s decision to intensify the war in Iraq. This is all to the good. However, it misses the real issue—the…
Read more »More Deception from the War Criminal
By: Paul Craig Roberts|24 January, 2007|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Criminal . Deception
Bush’s State of the Union address did not describe the deplorable State of the Union. The speech’s importance consists of Bush’s plea to Congress to please let him fool them one more time in order that he can attack Iran and start a bigger war that Congress will have to support in order to support Israel. That is all the…
Read more »Drug War Has Militarized Your Local Police
By: Paul Craig Roberts|23 January, 2007|Categories: Articles & Columns
In recent years American police forces have called out SWAT teams 40,000 or more times annually. Last year, did you read in your newspaper or hear on TV news of 110 hostage or terrorist events each day? No. What then were the SWAT teams doing? They were serving routine warrants to people who posed no danger to the police or…
Read more »Only Impeachment Can Prevent More War
By: Paul Craig Roberts|21 January, 2007|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: conflict in the middle east . defense secretary . leadership qualities . military pressure . nuclear countries . oil producing countries
Everyone knows that Bush’s Iraq ‘surge’ will not work. Even the authors of the plan, neoconservatives Frederick Kagan and Jack Keane, have emphasized that the plan cannot work with any less than an addition of 50,000 US troops committed to another three years of combat. Bush is only adding 40% of that number of troops, and Defense Secretary Gates speaks…
Read more »Attacking Iran: What's Really In It For Bush?
By: Paul Craig Roberts|16 January, 2007|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Attacking . George Bush . Iran . Really . What's
Initially, the Bush Regime denied that Bush’s surge speech on January 10 signaled that the Regime intends to attack Iran. Now a number of Regime officials have made it clear that Iran, not Iraq, is the focus of the Regime’s war planning. Robert Gates, the new Defense Secretary and member of the Iraq Study Group, was supposedly brought into the…
Read more »Impeach Bush—Stop Attack On Iran
By: Paul Craig Roberts|14 January, 2007|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Bush—Stop . Impeach . Iran
When are the American people and their representatives in Congress and the military going to wake up and realize that the US has an insane war criminal in the White House who is destroying all chances for peace in the world and establishing a police state in the US? Americans don’t have much time to realize this and to act…
Read more »The “Surge” Is A Red Herring
By: Paul Craig Roberts|11 January, 2007|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Herring . Red
Bush’s “surge” speech is a hoax, but members of Congress and media commentators are discussing the surge as if it were real. I invite the reader to examine the speech. The “surge” content consists of nonsensical propagandistic statements. The real content of the speech is toward the end where Bush mentions Iran and Syria. Bush makes it clear that success…
Read more »Jimmy Carter Speaks Truth to Propaganda
By: Paul Craig Roberts|10 January, 2007|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Carter . Jimmy . Propaganda . Speaks . Truth
Jimmy Carter, probably the most decent man to occupy the White House, received a lot of grief during his term in office, most of it undeserved. His latest book, Palestine Peace Not Apartheid has brought him even more grief, none of it deserved. My own appreciation of Jimmy Carter is new found. It began with his previous book, Our Endangered…
Read more »Distracting Congress from the Real War Plan
By: Paul Craig Roberts|09 January, 2007|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: assault on iran . carrier task forces . israeli air force . military purpose . new pearl harbor . prudence demands . rally americans
Is the surge an orchestrated distraction from the real war plan? A good case can be made that it is. The US Congress and media are focused on President Bush’s proposal for an increase of 20,000 US troops in Iraq, while Israel and its American neoconservative allies prepare an assault on Iran. Commentators have expressed puzzlement over President Bush’s appointment…
Read more »Bush's War Heating Up—Attack on Iran Imminent
By: Paul Craig Roberts|07 January, 2007|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Heating . Imminent . Iran . Up—Attack
Most Americans believe that Bush’s Iraqi misadventure is over. The occupation has lost the support of the electorate, the Congress, the generals and the troops. The Democrats are sitting back waiting for Bush to come to terms with reality. They don’t want to be accused of losing the war by forcing Bush out of Iraq. There are no more troops…
Read more »US Hypocrisy Reaches All Time High
By: Paul Craig Roberts|02 January, 2007|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: nuremberg trials hypocrisy
One of the lessons of the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials of Germans after Germany’s defeat in WW II was that obeying orders is no excuse for war crimes. US prosecutors took the position that the German military should have refused to obey Hitler’s orders. Chief US prosecutor Robert Jackson established that military aggression was a war crime. US Army Lieutenant…
Read more »Bush Says No To Reason
By: Paul Craig Roberts|02 January, 2007|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: George Bush . Reason . Says
On January 2 the BBC reported a leak from a “senior administration source” that President George W. Bush is going to give a speech, whose “central theme will be sacrifice,” announcing an increase in US troops in Iraq for security purposes. Speculation abounds whether the leak is designed to block Bush’s insane policy with protests or to soften its controversial…
Read more »Dollar Dethroned By Red Ink
By: Paul Craig Roberts|01 January, 2007|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Dethroned . Dollar . Ink . Red
Will Congress allow President Bush to waste another year on his Iraq misadventure while serious problems overwhelm the United States? During 2006 while the US government focused on the deteriorating situation in Iraq, the US dollar declined sharply against many currencies. By December China’s central bank was expressing its concern that the massive US trade deficit could lead to a…
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