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In article <Tqmdnc8C0dM3-7zZnZ2dnUVZ_vadnZ2d@sedona.net>,
 "arminius" <richard norton@cybertrails.com> wrote:

>  "Alcibiades" <was-scipio@laced�mon.net> wrote in message
>  news:k7g122lkons1344nqg6kmdmiouavvtpsh3@4ax.com...
>  >
>  > This article isn't about Bush's inexplicable fetish for Mexicans or
>  > accompanying contempt for the American voters who made his President.
>  > But it all comes under the same umbrella, he displays the same
>  > symptomology on other issues as he does toward Illegals Reform. There
>  > isn't any real American debate within the US over Illegals; the other
>  > side is just this nutcase Bush, and some bad people that find
>  > advantage in that for themselves or their causes.
>  >
>  > http://www.vdare.com/roberts/060321_deranged.htm
>  >
>  > Deranged, Disconnected, and Dangerous
>  >
>  > By Paul Craig Roberts
>  >
>  > On March 17 William Rivers Pitt wrote that Bush is "deranged,
>  > disconnected, and dangerous." In his March 20 Cleveland speech, Bush
>  > proved Pitt right.
>  >
>  > Bush gave a delusional speech that shows he is detached from reality.
>  > "We're going to help the Iraqis build a strong democracy that will be
>  > an inspiration throughout the Middle East, a democracy that'll be a
>  > partner in the global war against the terrorists."
>  >
>  > Has no one told Bush that the Iraqis cannot even agree to form a
>  > government?
>  >
>  > The day before Bush's delusional Cleveland speech, Iyad Allawi, the
>  > former prime minister of one of our make-believe Iraqi governments,
>  > said that in Iraq the casualty rate from the sectarian strife is so
>  > high that "if this is not civil war, then God knows what civil war
>  > is."
>  >
>  > The day of Bush's delusional speech, Patrick Cockburn, present on the
>  > scene in Irbil, Iraq, gave a much more truthful account of the
>  > situation. Writing in CounterPunch, he reported: "Iraq is a country
>  > convulsed by fear. It is at its worst in Baghdad. Sectarian killings
>  > are commonplace. . . . The scale of the violence is such that most of
>  > it is unreported. . . . Unseen by the outside world, silent
>  > populations are on the move, frightened people fleeing neighborhoods
>  > where their community is in a minority for safer districts. There is
>  > also a growing reliance on militias because of fears that police
>  > patrols or checkpoints are in reality death squads hunting for
>  > victims."
>  >
>  > Not a word of this reality from our delusional president.
>  >
>  > The fantasy Iraq that Bush painted was only his warm-up. He went on to
>  > tell his Cleveland audience that American could not be safe unless
>  > Iraq was a democracy. What a weak, pitiful, vulnerable place Bush's
>  > America must be. Unless a small, devastated Middle Eastern country is
>  > a democracy, America cannot be safe. Who in the Cleveland audience
>  > could possibly have believed this utter nonsense.
>  >
>  > Bush told his audience that "the security of our country is directly
>  > linked to the liberty of the Iraqi people, and we will settle for
>  > nothing less than victory." What victory is he talking about? Despite
>  > the huge sums of dollars paid by the Bush regime to all the leaders of
>  > all the factions, Iraq cannot form a government.
>  >
>  > Without victory, Iraq will be "a safe haven for terrorists to plot new
>  > attacks against our nation." Alas, there were no terrorists in Iraq
>  > until Bush invaded the country and drew them in. The problem our
>  > troops face in Iraq is not terrorists, but resistance fighters,
>  > "insurgents" in the Bush regimes parlance. Democracies lack the
>  > dictatorial, extra-legal powers to suppress terrorists. That is why
>  > Bush is destroying civil liberties in the US. Under Saddam Hussein,
>  > there were no terrorists and no insurgents. Bush is modeling his no
>  > habeas corpus, torture prone, all intrusive government on Saddam
>  > Hussein.
>  >
>  > The security of Americans has nothing whatsoever to do with Iraq. Iraq
>  > cannot overthrow the US Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the
>  > separation of powers, and American civil liberties. Iraq cannot
>  > illegally spy on American citizens, declare them to be "suspects" and
>  > detain them forever without warrant or charges. Iraq cannot put
>  > American critics of the Bush regime on "no-fly" lists.
>  >
>  > The real dangers to Americans reside in the neocon Bush
>  > administration. This delusional warmonger administration believes it
>  > has the power and the right to dictate to Muslim countries their
>  > political and social institutions. This extraordinary arrogance and
>  > hubris breeds opposition where there was none. The world is not going
>  > to obey Bush and a handful of stupid neocons.
>  >
>  > In his speech Bush told Cleveland that "the decision to remove Saddam
>  > Hussein was a difficult decision." That is a lie. Bush's Treasury
>  > Secretary, Paul O'Neill, and a number of others have reported that
>  > Bush came into office intending to remove Hussein. The head of British
>  > intelligence told the British Cabinet that Bush first decided to go to
>  > war and then created the reasons to justify his aggression against
>  > Iraq.
>  >
>  > "Before we acted," Bush told his audience, Hussein's "regime was
>  > defying U.N. resolutions calling for it to disarm. It was violating
>  > cease-fire agreements, was firing on American and British pilots which
>  > were enforcing no-fly zones." Gentle reader, think what Bush is
>  > saying. As Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction, a fact that Bush
>  > has acknowledged, how could Iraq possibly have been violating U.N.
>  > resolutions calling on it to disarm?
>  >
>  > What cease-fire agreements are Bush talking about? It was US and UK
>  > planes that continued to fly over Iraqi territory and bomb Iraqis.
>  >
>  > Do you know what Bush means by no-fly zones? He means that US and UK
>  > jet fighters could fly all over Iraq, but if Iraqi planes flew over
>  > Iraqi territory, we would shoot them down.
>  >
>  > Where did the US get the right to tell countries that they dare not
>  > try to control their own air space?
>  >
>  > Americans need to understand that terrorists are responding to
>  > America's behavior, or misbehavior. The only successful way to stop
>  > terrorism is to alter our behavior. America is not God. It has no
>  > right, and it certainly lacks the power, to impose its will on the
>  > world.
>  >
>  > The Bush regime cannot lead the world to democracy by tearing
>  > democracy down at home. Not since Abraham Lincoln  have American civil
>  > liberties been so threatened as by the Bush regime. America even has
>  > an Attorney General, a Vice President, and a Secretary of Defense who
>  > believe in torture. How do they differ from officials in the Third
>  > Reich or Stalin's KGB? Anyone who believes in torture is not an
>  > American. That person is outside our tradition. Yet, it is people who
>  > believe in torture who occupy our highest offices.
>  >
>  > When we get the mote out of our own eye, then we can instruct the
>  > Middle East.
>  >
>  > --------------
>  Republicans must distance themselves from this worthless and failed
>  President.
>  
Hey W does recognize the FEMA trailer problem is bad government.

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