Paul Craig Roberts: What's Next, Mr. War President?

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What's Next, Mr. War President?
by Paul Craig Roberts

The raison d'etre of the Bush administration is war in the Middle East in order to protect America from terrorism and to ensure America's oil supply. On both counts the Bush administration has failed catastrophically.

Bush's single-minded focus on the "war against terrorism" has compounded a natural disaster and turned it into the greatest calamity in American history. The U.S. has lost its largest and most strategic port and thousands of lives, and 80 percent of one of America's most historic cities is under water.

If terrorists had achieved this result, it would rank as the greatest terrorist success in history.

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The destruction of New Orleans is the responsibility of the most incompetent government in American history and perhaps in all history. Americans are rapidly learning that they were deceived by the superpower hubris. The powerful U.S. military cannot successfully occupy Baghdad or control the road to the airport – and this against an insurgency based in only 20 percent of the Iraqi population. Bush's pointless war has left Washington so pressed for money that the federal government abandoned New Orleans to catastrophe.

The Bush administration is damned by its gross incompetence. Bush has squandered the lives and health of thousands of people. He has run through hundreds of billions of borrowed dollars. He has lost America's reputation and its allies. With barbaric torture and the destruction of our civil liberty, he has stripped America of its inherent goodness and morality. And now Bush has lost America's largest port and 25 percent of its oil supply. Why? Because Bush started a gratuitous war egged on by a claque of crazy neoconservatives who have sacrificed America's interests to their insane agenda.

http://www.antiwar.com/roberts/?articleid=7149

[Dudley_DUright]

1. and it should be noted that

Paul Craig Roberts is a former associate editor of the Wall Street Journal and a former assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury (under Reagan).

[Cha]

3. WOW! Thanks, Dudley..I was wondering

what his background was.

[Wind Dancer]

2. Paul Craig Roberts has been writing the best articles!

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The neoconservatives have brought these disasters to all Americans, Democrat and Republican alike. Now they must he held accountable. Bush and his neoconservatives are guilty of criminal negligence and must be prosecuted.

What will it take for Americans to reestablish accountability in their government? Bush has gotten away with lies and an illegal war of aggression, with outing CIA agents, with war crimes against Iraqi civilians, with the horrors of the Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo torture centers, and now with the destruction of New Orleans.

What disaster will next spring from Bush's incompetence?

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If this doesn't wake up Americans, I have no hope for this country. What is it going to take for people to understand the elite do not give a rat's ass about them?

[Cha]

4. Amen, Paul Craig Roberts!

"What will it take for Americans to reestablish accountability in their government? Bush has gotten away with lies and an illegal war of aggression, with outing CIA agents, with war crimes against Iraqi civilians, with the horrors of the Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo torture centers, and now with the destruction of New Orleans.

What disaster will next spring from Bush's incompetence?{

It's just so Horrible what we've been through the last five years and Paul Craig Roberts has written it down for us.

[seafan]

5. This is a tremendous piece. Everyone needs to read this and reflect.

Please vote it up.

[phantom power]

6. I still blame the mainstream news media for allowing BushCo to happen.

Why did America elect a bunch of neocon nutcases to highest office? Because Americans didn't know what their agenda was. Sure, the information was out there, but the job of the 4th estate is to report this kind of information.

[seafan]

7. Kick n/t

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. We just had the Siege of New Orleans 2005

New Orleans: the third Gulf War.

[Stand and Fight]

9. Bravo, Dr. Roberts!

Another fine essay on the hopelessly idiotic domestic and foreign policies of the Bush administration.

[Raster]

10. kicked and nominated!! One question Mr. Roberts, did you vote

for dumbya? Did you help put this trainwreck into power?

[seemslikeadream]

11. But govemment them is a monckery

The state of union

The people live in misery
Govemment a work
But govemment them is a monckery
Respect to the youths
Whether in front and all dem a back a me
Why don't you treat them the way you should
And I know all the things you hide
Even though it's a good disguise
And we see all the things you do
And what you do will comeback on you
You think we can't fight what the eyes can't see
Because we are blinded by poverty

The people live in misery
Govemment a work
But govemment them is a monckery
Respect to the youths
Whether in front and all dem a back a me
Why don't you treat them the way you should

The people live in misery
Govemment a work
But govemment them is a monckery
Respect to the youths
Whether in front and all dem a back a me
Why don't you treat them the way you should

It's like the people you want them to rebel
And fire gunshots and burn buildings to hell
And after that you a go want treat me well
It's like you have the people under a spell
Talking to the people in a congress
A we vote you in, so you must put out your best
After all we no in a contest
It's the state of the union address

The people live in misery
Govemment a work
But govemment them is a monckery
Respect to the youths
Whether in front and all dem a back a me
Why don't you treat them the way you should

The people live in misery
Govemment a work
But govemment them is a monckery
Respect to the youths
Whether in front and all dem a back a me
Why don't you treat them the way you should

Broadcasting lies on the television sreen
Trying to get us hooked on your american dream
We up on your games if you know wha me mean
When you cheated on your wife with your money and your schemes
People rule and a that you fi follow
We and nuh no call me no nigga
Do a good term and you deserve another
Signed musically yours, the general sleepywonder

The people live in misery
Govemment a work
But govemment them is a monckery
Respect to the youths
Whether in front and all dem a back a me
Why don't you treat them the way you should

The people live in misery
Govemment a work
But govemment them is a monckery
Respect to the youths
Whether in front and all dem a back a me
Why don't you treat them the way you should

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