Former Reagan aide: 'Brownshirt' Bush among top 'mass murderers of all time'

[kpete]

Former Reagan aide: 'Brownshirt' Bush among top 'mass murderers of all time'
Nick Juliano
Published: Friday August 31, 2007

President Bush's apparent plans for a preemptive nuclear strike on Iran will only add to the civilian death toll as a result of US intervention that has placed the president "high on the list of mass murders of all time," a former aide in President Ronald Reagan's administration known for strident anti-Bush rhetoric said Friday.

"Bush is too self-righteous to see the dark humor in his denunciations of Iran for threatening 'the security of nations everywhere' and of the Iraqi resistance for 'a vision that rejects tolerance, crushes all dissent, and justifies the murder of innocent men, women, and children in the pursuit of political power,'" writes Paul Craig Roberts, a former assistant secretary of the Treasury. "Those are precisely the words that most of the world applies to Bush and his Brownshirt administration."

Roberts, who has emerged as a fierce critic of Bush's war policies, accused the president of ignoring habeas corpus and the Geneva Conventions, justifying torture and demonizing critics as anti-American.

"Bush ... is responsible, according to Information Clearing House, for over one million deaths of Iraqi civilians, which puts Bush high on the list of mass murderers of all time," Roberts writes in a column published Friday on antiwar.com. "The vast majority of 'kills' by the US military in Iraq and Afghanistan are civilians."

more at:
http://rawstory.com//news/2007/Former_Reagan_aide_Brownshirt_Bush_among_0831.html

[beberocks]

1. I think * is a sociopath and is enjoying the death toll.

Ever notice how he smirks whenever death is discussed? He made fun of that woman that was executed in Texas (back when he was governor). I think he enjoys causing death and destruction, he seems almost giddy when the topic comes up in press conferences.

[BrklynLib at work]

4. You are right. He is a VERY sick peson. If he had not had the benefit of a silver spoon since

he birth, he probably would have become a torturer/mass-murderer of the ilk of Jeffrey Dahlmer and Ted Bundy...but without even THEIR intelligence.

[in_cog_ni_to]

7. He is a sociopath and I agree, he DOES enjoy the deaths.

Cheney is a sociopath too. They are BOTH classic cases.

[BrklynLib at work]

2. Roberts has been a vocal but often doubted, critic of Bush for quite a while now.

What he said always made sense to me.

[indepat]

21. Roberts does not mince his words which should wake up and scare the be-jesus out

of anyone within ear shot. Sadly, tens of millions of Amurikkkans don't seem to care a whit about any of the issues he raises.

[peacetalksforall]

3. Is massacre the right word when a huge number of people are killed

at one time - or can massacre apply to the way we have killed Iraqis?

Our leaders believe in massacres.
Our leaders deny massacres.
They do it to our own.
The rest of us are next.

Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Chile, Argentina, Vietnam, Cambodia, East Timor, and the list goes on.

Our leaders are killers.
Our leaders are unchristian.

With the pretense of care and help. Beware .. the political and corporate care-givers.

Tell me again, in what way are we superior to all other human beings on this planet?

With bitterness and sarcasm.

[BrklynLib at work]

6. Sadly, our government's role in massacres goes back to the days of Native Americans being killed to

serve "Manifest Destiny" and other even less "noble" ideas.

Back then they were only carried out WITHIN the US. Now they have spread around the entire planet.

[L. Coyote]

5. Consider the cost of BUSH's war in terms of $$ Dollars per Dead Civilian.

It will cost our children, who will pay off the National Debt, about $500,000
per dead Iraqi civilian, per this estimate of the dead, PLUS INTEREST!
That's $1.66 per American citizen for each dead civilian. How many die each day?

Does anyone know the cost per dead Indian for conquering America?

[Nimrod2005]

8. I agree 100%

[pansypoo53219]

9. not a sociopath

he isn't smart enough to be that SUPERIOR. he is a narcissistic bully.

[zonmoy]

23. don't need to be smart to be a sociopath

all you need to lack is a conscience and basic human compassion.

[cheddar99]

10. S

[Mandate My Ass]

11. Thank God he protected us from the sinister island of Grenada

Imagine the horror we would have had to endure if he hadn't invaded and fought them there so we wouldn't have to fight them here.

[cheddar99]

12. H

You people deserve Bush.

[WinkyDink]

15. You would be wrong in that opinion. LINK:

"U.S. forces suffered 19 fatalities and 116 injuries.<5> Grenada suffered 45 military and at least 24 civilian deaths, along with 358 soldiers wounded. Cuba had 25 killed in action, with 59 wounded and 638 taken prisoner."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Grenada

Nineteen isn't many Americans---unless one is amongst them.

[cheddar99]

18. I

[WinkyDink]

19. GREAT riposte! May I borrow it? (Let me guess: the next letter is "T".)

[WinkyDink]

13. Except for those death squads in Central America, you mean?

[cheddar99]

16. Go Halliburton! I think

I'll go buy some stock.

[WinkyDink]

17. Then don't defend him. YOU wrote: "did not kill innocents that I know of."

Well, it seems the facts served as daylight to a vampire!

[cheddar99]

20. The U.S. troop surge

in Iraq has thrown al Qaeda off balance and led to a reduction in sectarian violence and bombings, the U.S. commander in Iraq was quoted on Friday by an Australian newspaper as saying. "We say we have achieved progress, and we are obviously going to do everything we can to build on that progress and we believe al Qaeda is off balance at the very least," General David Petraeus told the Australian in an interview after briefing Australia's defense minister

[Vinca]

14. There's definitely something wrong with Shrub and it amazes me

the way other powerful people in the government talk about "the President" as if he's a normal person. He's not. He's nuts.

[Cha]

22. The US corporatemediawhores

share, equally, the responsibility of these deaths.

I hope IWT takes off!

http://www.therealnews.com/web/index.php

[faithnotgreed]

24. absolutely deserves a kick and recommend

[calimary]

26. And another of each!

From one of "st. ronnie's" minions no less.

I've enjoyed Paul Craig Roberts' writings for a long time now.

[book_worm]

25. He is going to use Nuclear weapons in Iran!? and the American people will applaud this!

The man needs to be brought down--IMPEACH NOW!!!!