War Criminal Nation

[im10ashus]

By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS

Faced with mounting civilian carnage, both from war crimes committed by demoralized and broken US troops and from the raging civil war unleashed by Bush's ill-fated illegal invasion of Iraq, the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee has decided to waste another $50 billion to continue the lost war for five more months. Our elected "representatives" are so in thrall to the powerful military-industrial complex that no amount of American shame, pariah status and military defeat can shut off the flow of taxpayers' funds to the merchants of death.

Bush's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are costing hard-pressed US taxpayers $300,000,000 per day! These wars are lost. Yet, imbecilic members of Congress are in the process of funding the war for another year. Multiply $300 million by 365 days and you get $109,500,000,000. These are not the full costs. The huge figure does not include the destroyed equipment, destroyed lives, and long-term care of the maimed and disabled.

Gentle reader, are you getting enough vicarious pleasure from the slaughter of Iraqi women and children to justify this price tag? Is murdering "ragheads" that important to you? If so, you are one sick person, just like every member of the Bush administration.

US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan have killed far more civilians than they have resistance fighters. Bush administration spokespersons are crowing that they have killed Musab al-Zarqawi in an air strike. But al-Zarqawi was an al Qaeda leader, not a member of the Iraqi resistance. Al-Zarqawi's death will have no affect on the outcome in Iraq.

cont'd...

http://counterpunch.com/roberts06092006.html

[ixion]

1. Mr. Roberts has true grit

really. It takes come cojones to speak the bald-faced truth.

Under the guise of 'spreading democracy' we are slaughtering thousands of innocents.

Thousands. Tens of thousands.

It makes me ill to think of it. :puke: :cry:

[im10ashus]

2. Another excerpt from the article:

Bush supporters dismiss anyone who tells them the truth as a traitor. Bush supporters are as dependent on propaganda as substance abusers are on drugs and alcohol. Try weaning Bush supporters from the obvious lies that are the basis of this administration, and they will call you every name in the book.

They are proud to be Americans. Lies and war crimes are an American right.

And you had better shut up or those Haliburton-built concentration camps will be your new home.

[TahitiNut]

3. Mr. Roberts nails it. Every word.

:thumbsup:

[Octafish]

4. I love him. And the guy's a puke.

He was Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Pruneface, IIRC, a supply sider.

Other than that, I think he's the bee's knees.

[im10ashus]

5. Interesting.

I did not know that. He must have had a change-of-heart because he doesn't hold back at all.

[TahitiNut]

10. Nobody should be more pissed than honest Republicans.

It's a tribute to the brain-damage of partisanship that people can be so totally fucking blind to the corruption and criminality.

I tend to think of it as the 'training' fans of professional sports get - cheering for millionaires who're drunks and abusers off the field and ignoring their doping ... calling it "team loyalty."

[im10ashus]

11. Great point!

How someone can look at themselves in the mirror and feel good is beyond me.

[rock]

14. You nailed it

[MikeNearMcChord]

19. He is one of the biggest critics of outsourcing too

He blasts those economists who think moving jobs overseas is beneficial for consumers. You will many of his articles at CounterPunch.

[kineneb]

18. PCR is a true conservative

or what the neocons call "paleo-conservatives". He believes in the Constitution and a balenced budget. What is truly amazing is how far the R. party has drifted from any type of "conservative" notions.

These days they are just Straussians:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13145.htm

PCR calls them Jacobins, after the radicals of the French Revolution,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobin_Club
although the neocons are anything but left-wing by any modern defination.

[im10ashus]

20. Thanks for those links.

Very informative. "Paleo-conservatives" seems about apt.

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[Senator]

6. Impeachment is only the Beginning

War Crimes are "above our pay grade."

To redeem Our National Soul, we must "surrender ourselves" for int'l judgement and justice.

That means impeaching and charging all perpetrators here, trying and levying punishment, THEN binding them over to int'l authority.

It is our ONLY moral, patriotic option.

Real Americans do not aide and abet war criminals.

---
www.january6th.org

[im10ashus]

7. "Real Americans do not aide and abet war criminals."

That is it in a nutshell.

[TahitiNut]

12. I completely agree.

We are an outlaw nation unless and until these people are imprisoned. Absolutely nothing short of that will suffice. Nothing.

[many a good man]

21. Great statement!

I concur completely!

[Solly Mack]

9. Thanks for posting this

[Swamp Rat]

13. "those Haliburton-built concentration camps will be your new home"

It won't be long...



edit K&R!

[im10ashus]

15. Quite the statement.

Same thing we have been echoing here on DU since we first got wind of those concentration camps being built.

:scared:

[theHandpuppet]

16. This is the paragraph that nails it home for me

"The only reason Americans can look themselves in the mirror is that they are clueless and have little idea of what is being done in their name. One-third of the US population actually believes that Iraq was behind 9/11 and that Bush found the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Apparently, a large percentage of the US population believes that Iran has nuclear weapons and that America is in danger of being attacked by Iran. No democracy can work when people take their responsibility as citizen so lightly as to be totally ignorant."

[im10ashus]

17. The whole article is well written and to the point.

Love it. This sentence in particular:

"No democracy can work when people take their responsibility as citizen so lightly as to be totally ignorant."

[Senator]

22. k&r