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March 20th, 2013 
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Paul Craig Roberts
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Recently
by Paul Craig Roberts: Staring
Armageddon in the Face But Hiding It With Official Lies
March 19,
2013. Ten years ago today the Bush regime invaded Iraq. It is known
that the justification for the invasion was a packet of lies orchestrated
by the neoconservative Bush regime in order to deceive the United
Nations and the American people.
The US Secretary
of State at that time, General Colin Powell, has expressed his regrets
that he was used by the Bush regime to deceive the United Nations
with fake intelligence that the Bush and Blair regimes knew to be
fake. But the despicable presstitute media has not apologized to
the American people for serving the corrupt Bush regime as its Ministry
of Propaganda and Lies.
It is difficult
to discern which is the most despicable, the corrupt Bush regime,
the presstitutes that enabled it, or the corrupt Obama regime that
refuses to prosecute the Bush regime for its unambiguous war crimes,
crimes against the US Constitution, crimes against US statutory
law, and crimes against humanity.
In his book,
Cultures
Of War, the distinguished historian John W. Dower observes
that the concrete acts of war unleashed by the Japanese in the 20th
century and the Bush imperial presidency in the 21st century invite
comparative analysis of outright war crimes like torture and other
transgressions. Imperial Japans black deeds have left an indelible
stain on the nations honor and good name, and it remains to
be seen how lasting the damage to Americas reputation will
be. In this regard, the Bush administrations war planners
are fortunate in having been able to evade formal and serious investigation
remotely comparable to what the Allied powers pursued vis-a-vis
Japan and Germany after World War II.
Dower quotes
Arthur Schlesinger Jr.: The president [Bush] has adopted a
policy of anticipatory self-defense that is alarmingly
similar to the policy that imperial Japan employed at Pearl Harbor
on a date which, as an earlier American president said it would,
lives in infamy. Franklin D. Roosevelt was right, but today it is
we Americans who live in infamy.
Americans paid
an enormous sum of money for the shame of living in infamy. Joseph
Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes calculated that the Iraq war cost US taxpayers
$3,000 billion dollars. This estimate might turn out to be optimistic.
The
latest study concludes that the war could end up costing US
taxpayers twice as much.
In order to
pay for the profits that have flowed into the pockets of the US
military-security complex and from there into political contributions,
Americans are in danger of losing Social Security, Medicare, and
the social cohesiveness that the social welfare system provides.
The human cost
to Iraq of Americas infamy is extraordinary: 4.5 million displaced
Iraqis, as many as 1 million dead civilians leaving widows and orphans,
a professional class that has departed the country, an infrastructure
in ruins, and social cohesion destroyed by the Sunni-Shia conflict
that was ignited by Washingtons destruction of the Saddam
Hussein government.
It is a sick
joke that the United States government brought freedom and democracy
to Iraq. What the Washington war criminals brought was death and
the destruction of a country.
The US population,
for the most part, seems quite at ease with the gratuitous destruction
of Iraq and all that it entails: children without parents, wives
without husbands, birth defects from depleted uranium,
unsafe water, a country without hope mired in sectarian violence.
Washingtons
puppet state governments in the UK, Europe, the Middle East and
Japan seem equally pleased with the victory over what? What
threat did the victory defeat? There was no threat. Weapons of mass
destruction was a propaganda hoax. Mushroom clouds over American
cities was fantasy propaganda. How ignorant do populations have
to be to fall for such totally transparent propaganda? Is there
no intelligence anywhere in the Western world?
At a recent
conference the neoconservatives responsible for the deaths and ruined
lives of millions and for the trillions of dollars that their wars
piled on US national debt were unrepentant and full of self-justification.
While Washington looks abroad for evil to slay, evil
is concentrated in Washington itself.
The American
war criminals walk about unmolested. They are paid large sums of
money to make speeches about how Americans are bringing freedom
and democracy to the world by invading, bombing and murdering people.
The War Crimes Tribunal has not issued arrest warrants. The US Department
of State, which is still hunting for Nazi war criminals, has not
kidnapped the American ones and sent them to be tried at the Hague.
The Americans
who suffered are the 4,801 troops who lost their lives, the thousands
of troops who lost limbs and suffer from other permanent wounds,
the tens of thousands who suffer from post-traumatic stress and
from the remorse of killing innocent people, the families and friends
of the American troops, and the broken marriages and single-parent
children from the war stress.
Other Americans
have suffered on the home front. Those whose moral conscience propelled
them to protest the war were beaten and abused by police, investigated
and harassed by the FBI, and put on no-fly lists. Some might actually
be prosecuted. The Unites States has reached the point where any
citizen who has a moral conscience is an enemy of the state. The
persecution of Bradley Manning demonstrates this truth.
A case could
be made that the historians comparison of the Bush regime
with Japanese war criminals doesnt go far enough. By this
October 7, Washington will have been killing people, mainly women,
children, and village elders, in Afghanistan for 12 years. No one
knows why America has brought such destruction to the Afghan people.
First the Soviets; then the Americans. What is the difference? When
Obama came into the presidency, he admitted that no one knew what
the US military mission was in Afghanistan. We still dont
know. The best guess is profits for the US armaments industry, power
for the Homeland Security industry, and a police state for the insouciant
US population.
Washington
has left Libya in ruins and internal conflict. There is no government,
but it is not libertarian nirvana.
The incessant
illegal drone attacks on Pakistani civilians is radicalizing elements
of Pakistan and provoking civil war against the Pakistani government,
which is owned by Washington and permits Washingtons murder
of its citizens in exchange for Washingtons money payments
to the political elites who have sold out their country to Washington.
Washington
has destabilized Syria and destroyed the peace that the Assad family
had imposed on the Islamic sects. Syria seems fated to be reduced
to ruins and permanent violence like Libya and Iraq.
Washington
is at work killing people in Yemen.
As the video
released to WikiLeaks by Bradley Manning shows, some US troops dont
care who they kill journalists and civilians walking peacefully
along a street, a father and his children who stop to help the wounded.
As long as someone is killed, it doesnt matter who.
Killing is
winning.
The US invaded
Somalia, has its French puppets militarily involved in Mali, and
perhaps has Sudan in its crosshairs for drones and missiles.
Iran and Lebanon
are designated as the next victims of Washingtons aggression.
Washington
protects Israeli aggression against the West Bank, Gaza, and Lebanon
from UN censure and from embargoes. Washington has arrested and
imprisoned people who have sent aid to the Palestinian children.
Gaza, declares Washington which regards itself as the only fount
of truth, is ruled by Hamas, a terrorist organization according
to Washington. Thus any aid to Gaza is aid to terrorism. Aide to
starving and ill Palestinian children is support of terrorism. This
is the logic of an inhumane war criminal state.
What is this
aggression against Muslims about?
The Soviet
Union collapsed and Washington needed a new enemy to keep the US
military/security complex in power and profits. The neoconservatives,
who totally dominated the Bush regime and might yet dominate the
Obama regime declared Muslims in the Middle East to be the enemy.
Against this make-believe enemy, the US launched wars
of aggression that are war crimes under the US imposed Nuremberg
standard that was applied to the defeated WWII Germans.
Although the
British and French started World War II by declaring war on Germany,
it was Germans, defeated by the Red Army, who were tried by Washington
as war criminals for starting a war. A number of serious historians
have reached the conclusion that Americas war crimes, with
the fire-bombings of the civilian populations of Dresden and Tokyo
and the gratuitous nuclear attacks on the civilian populations of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki, are of the same cloth as the war crimes
of Hitler and the Japanese.
The difference
is that the winners paint the defeated in the blackest tones and
themselves in high moral tones. Honest historians know that there
is not much difference between US WWII war crimes and those of the
Japanese and Germans. But the US was on the winning side.
By
its gratuitous murder of Muslims in seven or eight countries, Washington
has ignited a Muslim response: bitter hatred of the United States.
This response is termed terrorism by Washington and
the war against terrorism serves as a source of endless profits
for the military complex and for a police state to protect
Americans from terrorism, but not from the terrorism of their own
government.
The bulk of
the American population is too misinformed to catch on, and the
few who do
understand and are attempting to warn others will be silenced. The
21st century will be one of the worst centuries in human history.
All over the Western world, liberty is dying.
The legacy
of the war on terror is the death of liberty.
March
20, 2013
Paul
Craig Roberts, a
former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury and former associate
editor of the Wall Street Journal, has been reporting shocking cases
of prosecutorial abuse for two decades. A new edition of his book,
The
Tyranny of Good Intentions,
co-authored with Lawrence Stratton, a documented account of how
americans lost the protection of law, has been released by Random
House. Visit his website.
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