"Bush has shown the world that the only difference between American dictatorship and other dictatorships is that, for now, Americans are permitted to remove their dictator after his term is served."
Ouch! The words of some lefty-leaning liberal? - or worse? No, they are the words of a no lesser person than Paul Craig Roberts. Roberts wrote the Kemp-Roth bill and 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 author or coauthor of eight books, including The Supply-Side Revolution (Harvard University Press). He has held numerous academic appointments, including the William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University and Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He has contributed to numerous scholarly journals and testified before Congress on 30 occasions. He has been awarded the U.S. Treasury's Meritorious Service Award and the French Legion of Honor. He was a reviewer for the Journal of Political Economy under editor Robert Mundell.
As Roberts writes in his piece on Information Clearing House:
"Is the Iraq war to become a permanent feature?
The war persists despite the opposition of a majority of Americans and Iraqis.
The war persists despite warnings from US generals that the stress is breaking the US Army.
The war persists despite its enormous cost in red ink and dependence on foreign loans.
The war persists despite its total failure.
The war persists despite the known fact that it was based on Bush administration lies and deception.
President Bush’s latest delusion--the surge--has not increased security. The surge has been accompanied by new records of daily Iraqi civilian casualties, such as the 312 Iraqis killed and 305 wounded on April 18. Recently, US commanding general David Petraeus said that Iraqis would just have to learn to live with daily bombing attacks. Petraeus promises Iraqis decades of violence when he says, “Iraq is going to have to learn--as did Northern Ireland--to live with some degree of sensational attacks.”
For the past two years polls of the US public have shown that a majority of Americans believe that it was a mistake to invade Iraq.
Polls of Iraqis show that large majorities support attacks on US troops and want US forces withdrawn from their country."
Ouch! The words of some lefty-leaning liberal? - or worse? No, they are the words of a no lesser person than Paul Craig Roberts. Roberts wrote the Kemp-Roth bill and 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 author or coauthor of eight books, including The Supply-Side Revolution (Harvard University Press). He has held numerous academic appointments, including the William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University and Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He has contributed to numerous scholarly journals and testified before Congress on 30 occasions. He has been awarded the U.S. Treasury's Meritorious Service Award and the French Legion of Honor. He was a reviewer for the Journal of Political Economy under editor Robert Mundell.
As Roberts writes in his piece on Information Clearing House:
"Is the Iraq war to become a permanent feature?
The war persists despite the opposition of a majority of Americans and Iraqis.
The war persists despite warnings from US generals that the stress is breaking the US Army.
The war persists despite its enormous cost in red ink and dependence on foreign loans.
The war persists despite its total failure.
The war persists despite the known fact that it was based on Bush administration lies and deception.
President Bush’s latest delusion--the surge--has not increased security. The surge has been accompanied by new records of daily Iraqi civilian casualties, such as the 312 Iraqis killed and 305 wounded on April 18. Recently, US commanding general David Petraeus said that Iraqis would just have to learn to live with daily bombing attacks. Petraeus promises Iraqis decades of violence when he says, “Iraq is going to have to learn--as did Northern Ireland--to live with some degree of sensational attacks.”
For the past two years polls of the US public have shown that a majority of Americans believe that it was a mistake to invade Iraq.
Polls of Iraqis show that large majorities support attacks on US troops and want US forces withdrawn from their country."
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