Former Reagan Official - Bush is an "insane war criminal"

It's good to see honest, intelligent people of integrity
speaking the truth. The Bush regime is totally out of
control...



Bush Must Go
Only Impeachment Can Stop Him
By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS

When are the American people and their representatives in Congress and
the military going to wake up and realize that the US has an insane war
criminal in the White House who is destroying all chances for peace in
the world and establishing a police state in the US?

Americans don’t have much time to realize this and to act before it is
too late. Bush’s “surge” speech last Wednesday night makes it
completely clear that his real purpose is to start wars with Iran and
Syria before failure in Iraq brings an end to the
neoconservative/Israeli plan to establish hegemony over the Middle East.

The “surge” gives Congress, the media, and the foreign policy
establishment something to debate and oppose, while Bush sets his plans
in motion to orchestrate a war with Iran. Suddenly, we are hearing Bush
regime propaganda that there are Iranian networks operating within Iraq
that are working with the Iraqi insurgency and killing US troops.

This assertion is a lie and preposterous on its face. Iranian Shi’ites
are not going to arm Iraqi Sunnis, who are more focused on killing Iraqi
Shi’ites allied with Iran than on killing US troops. If the Iranians
wanted to cause the US trouble in Iraq, they would encourage Iraqi
Shi’ites to join the insurgency against US forces. An insurgency drawn
from 80 per cent of the Iraqi population would overwhelm the US forces.

CBS reports that the news organization has been told by US officials
“that American forces have begun an aggressive and mostly secret ground
campaign against networks of Iranians that had been operating with
virtual impunity inside Iraq.” To manufacture evidence in behalf of
this lie to feed to the gullible American public, US forces invaded an
Iranian consulate in northern Iraq and kidnapped five consulate
officials, claiming the Iranians were part of plans “to kill Americans.”
In typical Orwellian fashion, Secretary of State Condi Rice described
Bush’s aggression against Iran as designed to confront Tehran’s aggression.

Iraqi government officials in the Kurdish province and the Iraqi foreign
minister have refused to go along with Bush’s propaganda ploy. Iraqi
Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari announced that the Iranian officials
were no threat and were working in a liaison office that had Iraqi
government approval and was in the process of being elevated into a
consulate.

The Iraqi foreign minister said that US troops tried to seize more
innocent people at the Irbil airport but were prevented by Kurdish troops.

The Kurds, of course, have been allies of the US forces, but Bush is
willing to alienate the Kurds in the interest of provoking a war with Iran.

If Bush is unable to orchestrate war with Iran directly, he will
orchestrate war indirectly by having US troops attack Iraqi Shi’ite
militias. Bush has already given orders for US troops to attack the
Iraqi Shi’ite militias, who oppose the Sunnis and have not been part of
the insurgency. Obviously, once Bush can get US troops in open warfare
with Iraqi Shi’ites, the situation for US troops in Iraq will quickly go
down hill. Bush will be able to blame Iranian Shi’ites for arming Iraqi
Shi’ites that he can say are killing US troops.

Bush has also ordered the Persian Gulf to be congested with TWO US
aircraft carrier attack groups. There is no military or diplomatic
reason for even one attack group to be in the Persian Gulf. If Bush
fails to orchestrate a war with Iran by kidnapping its officials or by
attacking Shi’ite militias, he can orchestrate an event like the Tonkin
Gulf incident or have the Israelis pull another USS Liberty incident and
blame the Iranians.

The Tonkin Gulf incident was used by the Johnson administration to
deceive Congress and to involve the US in the Vietnam war. Johnson
alleged a North Vietnamese attack on US warships.

In 1967 Israel attacked and destroyed the US intelligence ship Liberty,
because Liberty’s crew had picked up proof that Israel had initiated the
war with Egypt and intended to attack Syria the next day. Some have
speculated that Israelis hoped their attack on the Liberty could be
blamed on Egypt and used to draw the US into the war against Egypt.

In 2003 the Moorer Commission, headed by Admiral Tom Moorer, former
Chief of Naval Operations and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs,
concluded:

“That in attacking the USS Liberty, Israel committed acts of murder
against American servicemen and an act of war against the United States.”

“That fearing conflict with Israel, the White House deliberately
prevented the U.S. Navy from coming to the defense of USS Liberty.”

“The Captain and surviving crew members were later threatened with
court-martial, imprisonment or worse if they exposed the truth; and were
abandoned by their own government.”

“That due to the influence of Israel’s powerful supporters in the
United States, the White House deliberately covered up the facts of this
attack from the American people.”

“That a danger to our national security exists whenever our elected
officials are willing to subordinate American interests to those of any
foreign nation, and specifically are unwilling to challenge Israel’s
interests when they conflict with American interests.”

On the 30th anniversary of Israel’s destruction of the liberty, Admiral
Moorer said that Israel attacked the Liberty because Israel knew that
the intelligence ship could intercept Israel’s plans to seize the Golan
Heights from Syria, an act of Israeli aggression to which the US
government was opposed. Admiral Moorer said, “I believe Moshe Dayan
concluded that he could prevent Washington from becoming aware of what
Israel was up to by destroying the primary source of acquiring that
information--the US Liberty. Moorer reports that after a 25 minute air
attack “that pounded the Liberty with bombs, rockets, napalm and machine
gun fire . . . three Israeli torpedo boats closed in for the kill . . .
the torpedo boats’ machine guns also were turned on life rafts that were
deployed into the Mediterranean as well as those few on deck that had
escaped damage.”

Admiral Moorer says, “What is so chilling and cold-blooded, of course,
is that they [Israel] could kill as many Americans as they did in
confidence that Washington would cooperate in quelling any public
outcry.” The US invasion of Iraq and the looming US attack on Iran are
proof that Israel has even more power over the White House today.

Bush has many ways to widen his war in the Middle East. His brutal
aggression against Somalia has largely escaped criticism for the war
crime that it is. On January 11 the US National Intelligence Director
told Congress that Hezbollah in Lebanon may be the next US threat. Just
as he lied to the entire world about Saddam Hussein and Iraq, Bush is
lying about Iran. Bush and the neoconservatives are frantic for war
with Iran to get underway before the US Congress forces a US withdrawal
from the failed adventure in Iraq.

Bush’s entire “war on terror” is based on lies. The Bush Regime,
desperate to keep its lies covered up, is now trying to prevent American
law firms from defending the Guantanamo detainees. The Bush Regime is
fearful that Americans will learn that the detainees are not terrorists
but props in the regime’s orchestrated “terror war.”

On January 13 a New York Times (editorial) said that “Cully Stimson, the
deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee affairs, tried to
rally American corporations to stop doing business with law firms that
represent inmates of the Guantanamo internment camp.” Stimson alleged
that it was “shocking” that American law firms were “representing
detainees down there.” He suggested that when corporate America got
word of if, “those C.E.O.’s are going to make those law firms choose
between representing terrorists or representing reputable firms. We
want to watch that play out.”

The only reason for the Bush Regime’s policy of indefinite detention
without charges is that it has no charges to bring. The detainees are
not terrorists. They are the Bush Regime’s props in a fake war that
serves as cover for the Regime’s hegemonic policy in the Middle East.

The only action that can stop Bush is for both the Democratic and
Republican leadership of the House and Senate to call on the White
House, tell Bush they know what he is up to and that they will not fall
for it a second time. The congressional leadership must tell Bush that
if he does not immediately desist, he will be impeached and convicted
before the week is out. Can a congressional leadership that lives in
fear of the Israel Lobby perform this task?

All the rest is penny-ante. Revoking the Iraqi War Resolution as Rep.
Sam Farr has proposed or requiring Bush to obtain congressional
authorization prior to any US attack on Iran simply lets Bush and his
Federalist Society apologists for executive dictatorship claim he has
commander-in-chief powers and proceed with his planned aggression.
Cutting off funding is not itself enough as Bush can raid other budgets.
Non-binding resolutions of disapproval are meaningless to a president
who doesn’t care what anyone else thinks.

Nothing can stop the criminal Bush from instituting wider war in the
Middle East that could become a catastrophic world war except an
unequivocal statement from Congress that he will be impeached.

Bush has made the US into a colony of Israel. The US is incurring
massive debt and loss of both life and reputation in order to silence
Muslim opposition to Israel’s theft of Palestine and the Golan Heights.
That is what the “war on terror” is about.

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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