Lies of Aggression By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
Tom Davos
May 16, 2008
Bellicosity and Hypocrisy in Tel Aviv
Lies of Aggression By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
On May 15, the White House Moron, in a war-planning visit to Israel,
justified the naked aggression he and Olmert are planning against Iran as
the only alternative to the false comfort of appeasement, which has been
repeatedly discredited by history.
But the White House Moron has the roles reversed. It is not Iran that is
threatening war. It is Bush. It is not Bush who is appeasing. It is Iran.
Iran has not responded in kind to any of Bushs warlike moves and
provocations. Iran has not sunk a single one of our sitting duck ships and
has not given the Iraqi insurgents any weapons that would easily turn the
tide of war against the US.
It is Bush, not Iran, who sounds like Adolf Hitler blustering and
threatening. It is Bushs American Brownshirts, the neocons, who express
the view: whats the good of nuclear weapons if you cant use them.
It is the US that is funding assassination teams inside Iran and using
taxpayer dollars to fund dissident and violent organizations opposed to
the Iranian government. Iran is doing no such thing here.
It is members of the Bush Regime and US generals who continue to lie
through their teeth about Iranian support for insurgents, for which they
can supply no evidence, and about Iranian nuclear weapons programs, for
which the IAEA inspectors can find no sign.
It is the US print and TV media that serves the Bush Regime as propaganda
ministry for its lies of aggression.
All the war crimes that are being planned are being planned by Bush and
Olmert.
What would George Orwell make of the Bush Regimes position that anything
less than a direct act of naked aggression is appeasement?
The Chicago City Council has passed a resolution opposing any US attack
on Iran and urging the Bush Administration to pursue diplomatic engagement
with that nation. But the White House Moron says diplomacy is
appeasement. He learned this false equivalence from the neocon Brownshirts
whose control over his administration has made America despised throughout
the world, with the exception of Israel.
After broadcasting false claims for weeks from US generals and Bush Regime
spokespersons that the US has definite proof in the form of captured
Iranian weapons that Iranians were responsible for killing American
troops, the great free American media went silent when LA Times
correspondent Tina Susman reported from Baghdad: A plan to show some
alleged Iranian-supplied explosives to journalists last week in Karbala
and then destroy them was cancelled after the United States realized none
of them was from Iran.
A people devoid of a media are sitting ducks for tyrannical government,
which is what the US has.
What is the difference between Hitlers concocted excuses for his acts of
naked aggression and the Bush Regimes plan to use a briefing by General
Petraeus, with captured Iranian weapons as props, as proof of Iranian
complicity in US deaths in Iraq as a means to break down public and
congressional resistance to an attack on Iran?
Why has the Bush Regime suffered no consequences for this blatant attempt
to orchestrate an excuse for another war?
Why have there been no consequences to the Regime for the blatant lies it
told in order to attack Iraq?
Why has the Bush Regime suffered no consequences for its violation of US
statutory laws against spying without warrants and against torture?
In the US criminal justice system, three strikes and you are out.
For the Bush Regime is there any limit on its lawless behavior?
How many strikes? A dozen? Thirty? Three hundred?
Is there a limit?
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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:
PaulCrai...@yahoo.com