American Militarism: Part Two (Charles Krauthammer)
In 1990, thirteen years before President George W. Bush made his fateful decision to order an illegal, immoral war of choice in Iraq, prominent neoconservative columnist Charles Krauthammer had helped to pave the way for such wars by writing an article for Foreign Affairs which urged the United States to “unashamedly” lay “down the rules of world order and … [be] prepared to enforce them.” His views were embraced by many influential neoconservatives. In 2001, two years before President George W. Bush ordered an illegal and immoral invasion of Iraq, Mr. Krauthammer blithely asserted, “we are not just any hegemon. We run a uniquely benign imperium.” But, once in Iraq, nearly 4,500 American soldiers died under that so-called “uniquely benign imperium”. And under that “uniquely benign imperium” tens … Read entire article »
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Republicans and the Iraq War: Ten Years Later
Last October three scholars issued a report, which found that 79% of Republicans were explicit racists (see: http://www.walter-c-uhler.com/?p=666 ). This past January a university poll found that as many as 64% of Republicans could be considered “birthers.” (Most birthers are pathetic racist morons who, obsessed by their need to delegitimize America’s first black president, refuse to accept any evidence which proves that President Barack Obama was born in the United States.) However, both of these morally bankrupt values pale in significance, when compared with the overwhelming support that Republicans continue to give to President Bush’s illegal and immoral invasion of Iraq. Ten years ago this week, President George W. Bush gave the order for American troops to bomb and invade Iraq. From August 2002 … Read entire article »
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Commemorating al Qaeda’s Heinous Attacks on America, but Forgetting America’s Equally Heinous Invasion of Iraq: A Review of Bush’s Wars
It was 27 August 2002, while reading the New York Times, when I first suspected that senior officials in the administration of President George W. Bush had commenced lying about Iraq to our fearful, ignorant and gullible American public. You see, a day earlier Vice President Richard Cheney had spoken publicly about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction (WMD). ”There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction,” Cheney said. “The Iraq regime has in fact been very busy enhancing its capabilities in the field of chemical and biological agents.” Then, more ominously, Cheney added: “We now know that Saddam has resumed his efforts to acquire nuclear weapons.” Today, of course, everybody with an ounce of brains (and their … Read entire article »
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Addressing America’s “Deeper Malignancies”
If you want to know what’s wrong with the foreign policy establishment in the United States, look no further than Condoleezza Rice’s article, “The New American Realism,” published in the July/August 2008 issue of Foreign Affairs.” Not only has the Council on Foreign Relations spread its pages wide open for an infamous interventionist — a lying and deceitful enabler of the Bush administration’s illegal, immoral unprovoked invasion of Iraq – it also readmitted Ms. Rice without requiring anything resembling a mea culpa for the crimes against humanity that have lowered her, the Bush administration and the United States to the depths of moral disrepute around the world. Why publish the words of a liar and alleged war criminal? Who takes her … Read entire article »
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