A DEFEAT BRED IN DECEIT--- ANOTHER GREAT ESSAY BY

[KlatooBNikto]

PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS.


Link: http://www.counterpunch.com/roberts06282005.html


Roberts, as usual, asks some very pertinent and piercing questions at the arrogant fools who have led the country to a war they claimed was a cakewalk and now say may take ten to twelve years with no resolution on the battlefield.Roberts correctly asks " Would the American people have supported this war if they had known it was going to be a twelve year war instead of the three week war they promised at the outset?"

And he has especially harsh words for the NYT and WaPo for becoming cheerleaders for a war without asking skeptical questions.

Thank God we have people like Roberts, Krugman,Breslin, Hersh and, of course, that Lion In Winter, Senator Byrd, to call these crooks and murderers to account.

[Larkspur]

1. Wow! What a condemnation of the Bush junta!

After three years of fighting, Rumsfeld still doesn't understand that the Iraqi people are the insurgency. Is Rumsfeld still clinging to the myth that the insurgency is an outside element injected into Iraq?

When will the moronic Bush administration realize that it is creating the environment in which the insurgency is prevailing?

Many readers write to me that Bush and his neocon crazies are Israel's patsies. An equally good case can be made that Bush and his crazy neocons are Osama bin Laden's agents. In a recent speech at the American University in Cairo, Egypt, Secretary of State Condi Rice repudiated America's 60-year old policy of Middle East stability and declared: "Now, we are taking a different course."

Rice, being completely ignorant of the Middle East, believes that the path to democracy is through instability. But, of course, instability is exactly what bin Laden wants. The instability that the Bush administration is creating will unseat our puppets in Egypt, Pakistan, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia. Bin Laden intends to pick up the pieces.

The Bush administration has squandered America's diplomatic, economic, and military power and is heading for defeat in Iraq, Afghanistan, and throughout the Middle East. Bush's invasion of Iraq is fast becoming one of the greatest strategic blunders in history.

I think Impeachment would be a good start but I'm afraid that the damage that Bush II has wrought is irreparable.