- A powerful case can be made that it is.
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- In the past three years the Bush Regime
has murdered tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians and an unknown number
of Afghan ones.
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- US Marines, our finest and proudest military
force, are under criminal investigation for breaking into Iraqi homes and
murdering entire families. In an unprecedented event, General Michael Hagee,
the Marine Corps commandant, has found it necessary to fly to Iraq to tell
our best trained troops to stop murdering civilians.
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- General Hagee found it necessary to tell
the U.S. Marines: "We do not employ force just for the sake of employing
force. We use lethal force only when justified, proportional, and most
importantly, lawful."
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- The war criminals in the Bush Regime
have dismissed the murders as "collateral damage," but they are
in fact murders. Otherwise, there would be no criminal investigations,
and the Marine commandant would not be burdened with the embarrassment
of having to fly to Iraq to lecture US Marines on the lawful use of force.
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- The criminal Bush Regime has now murdered
more Iraqis than Saddam Hussen. The Bush Regime is also responsible for
20,000 US casualties (dead, maimed for life, and wounded).
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- Bush damns the "axis of evil."
But who has the "axis of evil" attacked? Iran has attacked no
one. North Korea has attacked no country for more than a half century.
Iraq attacked Kuiwait a decade and a half ago, apparently after securing
permission from the US ambassador.
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- Isn't the real axis of evil Bush-Blair-Olmert?
Bush and Blair have attacked two countries, slaughtering their citizens.
Olmert is urging them on to attack a third country--Iran.
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- Where does the danger to the world reside?
In Iran, a small religious country where the family is intact and the government
is constrained by religious authority and ancient traditions, or in the
US where propaganda rules and the powerful executive branch has removed
itself from accountability by breaking the constitutional restraints on
its power?
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- Why is the US superpower orchestrating
fear of puny Iran?
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- The US government has spent the past
half century interfering in the internal affairs of other countries, overthrowing
or assassinating their chosen leaders and imposing its puppets on foreign
peoples. To what country has Iran done this, or Iraq, or North Korea?
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- Americans think that they are the salt
of the earth. The hubris that comes from this self-righteous belief makes
Americans blind to the evil of their leaders. How can American leaders
be evil when Americans are so good and so wonderful?
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- How many Serbs were slaughtered by American
bombs released from high above the clouds, and for what reason? Who even
remembers the propagandistic lies that the Clinton administration told
us about why we absolutely had to drop bombs on the Serbs?
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- Wasn't it evil for the US to bomb Iraq
for a decade and to embargo medicines for children? When US Secretary of
State M. Albright was asked if she thought an embargo that resulted in
the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children was justified, she replied, "yes."
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- The former terrible tyrant ruler of Iraq,
Saddam Hussein, is on trial for killing 150 people. The US government murdered
500,000 Iraqi children prior to Bush's invasion. When the US government
murders people, whether Serbs, Branch Davidians at Waco, or Iraqi women
and children, it is "collateral damage." But we put Saddam Hussein
on trial for putting down rebellions.
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- Gentle reader, do you believe that the
Bush Regime will not shoot you down in the streets if you have a rebellion?
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- Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury in the Reagan administration. He was Associate Editor of
the Wall Street Journal editorial page and Contributing Editor of National
Review. He is coauthor of The Tyranny of Good Intentions.He can be reached
at: paulcraigroberts@yahoo.com
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