Paul Craig Roberts: The Evil Empire
Mark Graffis
The Evil Empire Paul Craig Roberts The U.S. government is now so
totally under the thumbs of organized interest groups that "our"
government can no longer respond to the concerns of the American
people who elect the president and the members of the House and
Senate. Voters will vent their frustrations over their impotence
on the president, which implies a future of one-term presidents.
Soon our presidents will be as ineffective as Roman emperors in the
final days of that empire.
Obama is already set on the course to a one-term presidency. He
promised change but has delivered none. His health care bill is
held hostage by the private insurance companies seeking greater
profits. The most likely outcome will be cuts in Medicare and
Medicaid in order to help fund wars that enrich the military-security
complex and the many companies created by privatizing services that
the military once provided for itself at far lower costs.
It would be interesting to know the percentage of the $700-plus
billion "defense" spending that goes to private companies. In
American "capitalism,"
an amazing amount of taxpayers' earnings go to private firms via
the government. Yet, Republicans scream about "socializing" health
care.
Republicans and Democrats saw opportunities to create new sources
of campaign contributions by privatizing as many military functions
as possible. There are now a large number of private companies that
have never made a dollar in the market, feeding instead at the
public trough that drains taxpayers of dollars while loading Americans
with debt service obligations.
Obama inherited an excellent opportunity to bring U.S. soldiers
home from the George W. Bush regime's illegal wars of aggression.
In its final days, the Bush regime realized that it could "win" in
Iraq by putting the Sunni insurgents on the U.S. military payroll.
Once Bush had 80,000 insurgents collecting U.S. military pay,
violence, although still high, dropped in half.
All Obama had to do was to declare victory and bring our boys home,
thanking Bush for winning the war. It would have shut up the
Republicans.
But this sensible course would have impaired the profits and share
prices of those firms that comprise the military-security complex.
So instead of doing what Obama said he would do and what the voters
elected him to do, Obama restarted the war in Afghanistan and
launched a new one in Pakistan. Soon, Obama was echoing Bush and
Dick Cheney's threats to attack Iran.
In place of health care for Americans, there will be more profits
for private insurance companies.
In place of peace, there will be more war.
Voters are already recognizing the writing on the wall and are
falling away from Obama and the Democrats. Independents who gave
Obama his comfortable victory have now swung against him, recently
electing Republican governors in New Jersey and Virginia to succeed
Democrats. This is a protest vote, not a confidence vote in
Republicans.
Obama's credibility is shot. And so is Congress', assuming it ever
had any.
The U.S. House of Representatives has just voted to show the entire
world that the U.S. House of Representatives is nothing but the
servile, venal puppet of the Israel lobby. The House of Representatives
of the American "superpower"
did the bidding of its master, AIPAC, and voted 344 to 36 to condemn
the Goldstone Report.
In case you don't know, the Goldstone Report is the Report of the
United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict. The "Gaza
Conflict" is the Israeli military attack on the Gaza ghetto, where
1.5 million dispossessed Palestinians, whose lands, villages and
homes were stolen by Israel, are housed. The attack was on civilians
and civilian infrastructure. It was without any doubt a war crime
under the Nuremberg standard that the U.S.
established in order to execute Nazis.
Goldstone is not only a very distinguished Jewish jurist who has
given his life to bringing people to accountability for their crimes
against humanity, but also a Zionist. However, the Israelis have
demonized him as a "self-hating Jew" because he wrote the truth
instead of Israeli propaganda.
U.S. Representative Dennis Kucinich, who is now without a doubt a
marked man on AIPAC's political extermination list, asked the House
if the members had any realization of the shame that the vote
condemning Goldstone would bring on the House and the U.S. government.
The entire rest of the world accepts the Goldstone report.
The House answered with its lopsided vote that the rest of the world
doesn't count, as it doesn't give campaign contributions to members
of Congress.
This shameful, servile act of "the world's greatest democracy"
occurred the very week that a court in Italy convicted 23 U.S.
CIA officers for kidnapping a person in Italy. The CIA agents are
now considered "fugitives from justice" in Italy, and indeed they
are.
The kidnapped person was renditioned to the American puppet state
of Egypt, where the victim was held for years and repeatedly tortured.
The case against him was so absurd that even an Egyptian judge order
his release.
One of the convicted CIA operatives, Sabrina deSousa, an attractive
young woman, says that the U.S. broke the law by kidnapping a person
and sending him to another country to be tortured in order to
manufacture another "terrorist"
in order to keep the terrorist hoax going at home. Without the
terrorist hoax, America's wars for special interest reasons would
become transparent even to Fox "News" junkies.
DeSousa says that "everything I did was approved back in Washington,"
yet the government, which continually berates us to "support the
troops," did nothing to protect her when she carried out the Bush
regime's illegal orders.
Clearly, this means that the crime that Bush, Cheney, the Pentagon
and the CIA ordered is too heinous and beyond the pale to be
justified, even by memos from the despicable John Yoo and the
Republican Federalist Society.
DeSousa is clearly worried about herself. But where is her concern
for the innocent person that she sent into an Egyptian hell to be
tortured until death or admission of being a terrorist? The remorse
deSousa expresses is only for herself. She did her evil government's
bidding, and her evil government that she so faithfully served
turned its back on her. She has no remorse for the evil she committed
against an innocent person.
Perhaps deSousa and her 22 colleagues grew up on video games. It
was great fun to plot to kidnap a real person and fly him on a CIA
plane to Egypt. Was it like a fisherman catching a fish or a deer
hunter killing a beautiful 8-point buck? Clearly, they got their
jollies at the expense of their renditioned victim.
The finding of the Italian court, and keep in mind that Italy is a
bought-and-paid-for U.S. puppet state, indicates that even our
bought puppets are finding the U.S. too much to stomach.
Moving from the tip of the iceberg down, we have Ambassador Craig
Murray, rector of the University of Dundee and until 2004 the British
ambassador to Uzbekistan, which he describes as a Stalinist
totalitarian state courted and supported by the Americans.
As ambassador, Murray saw the MI5 intelligence reports from the CIA
that described the most horrible torture procedures. "People were
raped with broken bottles, children were tortured in front of their
parents until they (the parents) signed a confession, people were
boiled alive."
"Intelligence" from these torture sessions was passed on by the CIA
to MI5 and to Washington as proof of the vast al-Qaida conspiracy.
Murray reports that the people delivered by CIA flights to Uzbekistan's
torture prisons "were told to confess to membership in al-Qaida.
They were told to confess they'd been in training camps in Afghanistan.
They were told to confess they had met Osama bin Laden in person.
And the CIA intelligence constantly echoed these themes."
"I was absolutely stunned," says the British ambassador, who thought
that he served a moral country that, along with its American ally,
had moral integrity. The great Anglo-American bastion of democracy
and human rights, the homes of the Magna Carta and the Bill of
Rights, the great moral democracies that defeated Nazism and stood
up to Joseph Stalin's gulags, were prepared to commit any crime in
order to maximize profits.
Murray learned too much and was fired when he vomited it all up.
He saw the documents that proved that the motivation for U.S. and
British military aggression in Afghanistan had to do with the natural
gas deposits in Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. The Americans wanted
a pipeline that bypassed Russia and Iran and went through Afghanistan.
To ensure this, an invasion was necessary. The idiot American public
could be told that the invasion was necessary because of 9-11 and
to save them from "terrorism," and the utter fools would believe
the lie.
"If you look at the deployment of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, as
against other NATO country forces in Afghanistan, you'll see that
undoubtedly the U.S.
forces are positioned to guard the pipeline route. It's what it's
about. It's about money, its about energy, it's not about democracy."
Guess who the consultant was who arranged with then-Texas Gov.
George W. Bush the agreements that would give to Enron the rights
to Uzbekistan's and Turkmenistan's natural gas deposits and to
Unocal to develop the trans-Afghanistan pipeline. It was Hamad
Karzai, the U.S.-imposed "president"
of Afghanistan, who has no support in the country except for American
bayonets.
Murray was dismissed from the British Foreign Service for his
revelations. No doubt on orders from Washington to our British
puppet.
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