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"Alcibiades" <was-scipio@laced�mon.net> wrote in message
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> 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.
>
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Republicans must distance themselves from this worthless and failed
President.

Hank
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