- Tens of millions of Americans want President George W.
Bush to be impeached for the lies and deceit he used to launch an illegal
war and for violating his oath of office to uphold the US Constitution.
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- Millions of other Americans want Bush turned over to
the war crimes tribunal at the Hague. The true fate that awaits Bush is
psychiatric incarceration.
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- The president of the United States is so deep into denial
that he is no longer among the sane.
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- Delusion still rules Bush three weeks after the American
people repudiated him and his catastrophic war in elections that delivered
both House and Senate to the Democrats in the hope that control over Congress
would give the opposition party the strength to oppose the mad occupant
of the White House.
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- On November 28 Bush insisted that US troops would not
be withdrawn from Iraq until he had completed his mission of building a
stable Iraqi democracy capable of spreading democratic change in the Middle
East.
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- Bush made this astonishing statement the day after NBC
News, a major television network, declared Iraq to be in the midst of a
civil war, a judgment with which former Secretary of State Colin Powell
concurs.
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- The same day that Bush reaffirmed his commitment to building
a stable Iraqi democracy, a secret US Marine Corps intelligence report
was leaked. According to the Washington Post, the report concludes: "the
social and political situation has deteriorated to a point that US and
Iraqi troops are no longer capable of militarily defeating the insurgency
in al-Anbar province."
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- The Marine Corps intelligence report says that Al Qaeda
is the "dominant organization of influence" in Anbar province,
and is more important than local authorities, the Iraqi government and
US troops "in its ability to control the day-to-day life of the average
Sunni."
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- Bush's astonishing determination to deny Iraq reality
was made the same day that the US-installed Iraqi prime minister al-Maliki
and US puppet King Abdullah II of Jordan abruptly cancelled a meeting with
Bush after Bush was already in route to Jordon on Air Force One.
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- Bush could not meet with Maliki in Iraq, because violence
in Baghdad is out of control. For security reasons, the US Secret Service
would not allow President Bush to go to Iraq, where he is "building
a stable democracy."
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- Bush made his astonishing statement in the face of news
leaks of the Iraq Study Group's call for a withdrawal of all US combat
forces from Iraq. The Iraq Study Group is led by Bush family operative
James A. Baker, a former White House chief of staff, former Secretary of
the Treasury, and former Secretary of State. Baker was tasked by father
Bush to save the son. Apparently, son Bush hasn't enough sanity to allow
himself to be saved.
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- Bush's denial of Iraqi reality was made even as one of
the most influential Iraqi Shiite leaders, Moqtada al-Sadr, is building
an anti-US parliamentary alliance to demand the withdrawal of US troops
from Iraq.
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- Maliki himself appears on the verge of desertion by his
American sponsors. The White House has reportedly "lost confidence"
in Maliki's "ability to control violence." Fox "News"
disinformation agency immediately began blaming Maliki for the defeat the
US has suffered in Iraq. NY governor Pataki told Fox "News" that
"Maliki is not doing his job." Pataki claimed that US troops
were doing "a great job."
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- A number of other politicians and talking heads joined
in the scapegoating of Maliki. No one explained how Maliki can be expected
to save Iraq when US troops cannot provide enough security for the Iraqi
government to go outside the heavily fortified "green zone" that
occupies a small area of Baghdad. If the US Marines cannot control Anbar
province, what chance is there for Maliki? What can Maliki do if the security
provided by US troops is so bad that the President of the US cannot even
visit the country?
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- The only people in Iraq who are safe belong to Al Qaeda
and the Sunni insurgents or are Shiite militia leaders such as al-Sadr.
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- An American group, the Center for Constitutional Rights,
has filed war crimes charges in Germany against former US Defense Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld. A number of former US attorneys believe President Bush
and Vice President Cheney deserve the same.
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- Bush has destroyed the entire social, political, and
economic fabric of Iraq. Saddam Hussein sat on the lid of Pandora's Box
of sectarian antagonisms, but Bush has opened the lid. Hundreds of thousands
of Iraqi civilians have been killed as "collateral damage" in
Bush's war to bring "stable democracy" to Iraq. Tens of thousands
of Iraqi children have been orphaned and maimed. Hundreds of thousands
of Iraqis have fled their country. The Middle East is aflame with hatred
of America, and the ground is shaking under the feet of American puppet
governments in the Middle East. US casualties (killed and wounded) number
25,000.
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- And Bush has not had enough!
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- What better proof of Bush's insanity could there be?
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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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