Paul Craig Roberts is a Hero
The Administration That Won't Stop Lying
By Paul Craig Roberts
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The war has already cost 20,000 American casualties (dead and wounded) and hundreds of billions of dollars, which have had to be borrowed from foreigners, and is projected to have a total cost in excess of one trillion dollars.This is a horrendous commitment. What is its purpose?
We have never been told. Everything the Bush Regime has said has been a lie. There were no weapons of mass destruction, and this was known prior to the orchestrated invasion. As the leaked top-secret British Cabinet memo, "the Downing Street memo," makes completely clear, the Bush regime falsified the intelligence to justify its invasion of Iraq.
There was no Iraqi connection to al Qaeda, a sworn enemy of the secular Hussein regime.
The most recent excuse – building democracy – is also a lie. It is perfectly clear that what the Bush Regime has done is to bring the three Iraqi factions to the brink of civil war, while constructing a massive US fortification in the guise of an embassy and permanent military bases.
The Republican Party has been reduced to one principle – its own power. It protects the Bush Regime from accountability and covers up its lies and misdeeds. Under the myths and lies that enshroud 9/11, the Democrats have collapsed as an opposition party.
And for you Partisans who scream Democrat or Republican at every turn, Paul Craig Roberts was President Reagan's Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. A lifelong Republican.
Talk about damaging.
Get 'em, Paul!
