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by Paul Craig Roberts

On March 17, William Rivers Pitt wrote that Bush is “deranged, disconnected, and dangerous.” In his March 20 Cleveland speech, Bush proved Pitt right.

Bush gave a delusional speech that shows he is detached from reality. “We’re going to help the Iraqis build a strong democracy that will be an inspiration throughout the Middle East, a democracy that’ll be a partner in the global war against the terrorists.”

Has no one told Bush that the Iraqis cannot even agree to form a government?

The day before Bush’s delusional Cleveland speech, Iyad Allawi, the former prime minister of one of our make-believe Iraqi governments, said that in Iraq the casualty rate from the sectarian strife is so high that “if this is not civil war, then God knows what civil war is.” (more…)

by James Buchanan

Normally I would have no sympathy for a minority politician who went berserk and belted a law officer. The image of a Black woman wailing away at a cop is another hallmark moment for our modern Babylonian Congress. In all probability she will get away with this latest episode, which would have ended the career of a White politician. The issue however is not as clear cut as it may seem at first glance.

Cynthia McKinney is in many ways a typical Black Congressperson, demanding a bigger welfare state, insisting on more tax money from working Americans for the mostly minority non-working class. But why was she singled out? Out of all the minorities in Congress, why was there an incident with her?

Cynthia McKinney has been one of the few people in all of Congress, who is willing to tell the truth about Israel. She doesn’t like its long history of abuse of the Palestinians and she doesn’t like rewarding the Israelis with our tax money. She was targeted by the Israeli Lobby and was voted out of office, but came back and won reelection. She is one of the most well-known members of Congress and it is almost impossible to believe that a police officer assigned to the White House would not recognize her. (more…)

by Jeff Davis

Remember the Valerie Plame spy case, and the exciting indictment of Dick Cheney’s chief of staff Lewis “Scooter” Libby last October? Remember everyone waiting around with bated breath to see if Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald would go after Dubya’s evil eminence, the funny little man behind the funny little black box under Bush’s jacket, Karl Rove? When Rove dodged the bullet last year, a lot of people, myself included, sighed in disgust and figured “Well, that’s it. Fitzgerald has washed out. He was bought off or threatened off. It looked like Rove and Co. had evaded justice again. The puppet master gets to stay in the White House with his puppet. The Man Behind The Curtain got away again.

But apparently Fitz is about to climb back into the ring for another round. I’m not sure exactly why all these special prosecutor investigations seem to take so devilishly LONG to establish a few simple facts–probably something to do with wanting to keep their snouts in the taxpayers’ trough for as long as possible–but still, Fitz seems to have refused to give up. Sources at the State Department, the CIA and the National Security Council claim that they have been grilled by Fitzgerald’s attorneys on the subject of Rove, and better yet on Dick Cheney and even on Dubya himself. (more…)

by Rep. Ron Paul

It’s been three years since the U.S. launched its war against Saddam Hussein and his weapons of mass destruction. Of course, now almost everybody knows there were no WMD and Saddam Hussein posed no threat to the United States. Though some of our soldiers serving in Iraq still believe they are there because Saddam Hussein was involved in 9/11, even the administration now acknowledges there was no connection. Indeed, no one can be absolutely certain why we invaded Iraq. The current excuse, also given for staying in Iraq, is to make it a democratic state, friendly to the United States. There are now fewer denials that securing oil supplies played a significant role in our decision to go into Iraq and stay there. That certainly would explain why U.S. taxpayers are paying such a price to build and maintain numerous huge, permanent military bases in Iraq. They’re also funding a new billion dollar embassy – the largest in the world.

The significant question we must ask ourselves is: What have we learned from three years in Iraq? With plans now being laid for regime change in Iran, it appears we have learned absolutely nothing. There still are plenty of administration officials who daily paint a rosy picture of the Iraq we have created. But I wonder: If the past three years were nothing more than a bad dream, and our nation suddenly awakened, how many would, for national security reasons, urge the same invasion? Would we instead give a gigantic sigh of relief that it was only a bad dream, that we need not relive the three-year nightmare of death, destruction, chaos, and stupendous consumption of tax dollars? Conceivably, we would still see oil prices under $30 a barrel, and most importantly, 20,000 severe U.S. casualties would not have occurred. My guess is that 99 percent of all Americans would be thankful it was only a bad dream, and would never support the invasion knowing what we know today. (more…)

by Charles Coughlin

Despite overwhelming support for a crackdown, George Bush and the Senate are trying to give an amnesty to as many illegal aliens as possible. Few times in history has a so-called democratic government been so thoroughly out of touch with mainstream America. Recent polls on illegal aliens have found that over 80 percent of Americans do not want to give illegals an amnesty.

Republican members of the House fearing a backlash over the Iraq War have come out strongly on our side on this issue proposing a law to make being an illegal alien a felony. This is exactly the direction that our government should be taking. Unfortunately, only one half of one branch of our government is making a serious effort to represent us.

Some political pundits have seriously suggested impeaching George Bush for failing to secure our southern border and presiding over the greatest illegal alien invasion in our history. One estimate by Bear Stearns states that 20 million illegals are in the US right now. The neocons and their spin machine have been pretending this number is only twelve or eleven million depending on how dishonest they are on any particular day. (more…)

by Paul Craig Roberts

President Bush passes himself off as a conservative Republican and a born-again Christian. These are disguises behind which Bush hides. Would a Christian invade another country on false pretenses, kill tens of thousands of innocent civilians, and show no remorse or inclination to cease the aggression?

Longtime Republican policy wonk Bruce Bartlett recently published a book, Impostor, in which he proves that President Bush is no economic conservative, having broken all records in spending taxpayers’ money and running up public debt.

Were Bush merely another big spender, his presidency wouldn’t differ from other pork-barrel administrations, but Bush’s radicalism goes far beyond spending. Bush has taken an irreverent approach to the U.S. Constitution. (more…)

by Jeff Davis

Last week Robert Pambello, the principal of Reagan High School in Houston–the PRINCIPAL, now, not some gang of cholo gang-banger “students”–was ordered by the school district to remove a Mexican flag that he had hoisted on the flagpole in front of his school. At nearby Hamilton Middle School, a “student” was asked to wipe off a Mexican flag painted on his face. Hundreds of other “students” carried Mexican flags during walkouts and demonstrations all across the city, acts of protest that they vow to continue until Congress rejects legislation that would further restrict immigration. The Mexicans are finally learning the lessons that blacks learned in the 1960s–if you don’t get what you want, threaten to riot.

Ever since the introduction of a few mild, too-little-too-late immigration enforcement laws and policies on the state and national level began several months ago, Latinos all across America have been rallying around the Mexican flag. “Students” say the flag represents their pride in the contributions Mexicans make to this country. The old idea that immigrants assimilate and become Americans seems to have disappeared entirely from the national discourse. It would seem that the “Melting Pot” is no longer melting and the salsa sauce is bubbling over. (more…)

Will it take the country down with it?

by Paul Craig Roberts

The latest national survey by the Pew Research Center finds that President Bush’s support among the American people has fallen to 33 percent. Even more devastatingly, the survey finds that people’s most frequently used one-word description of President Bush is “incompetent.”

The chief chaplain for the New York City Corrections Department told a Tucson audience that “the greatest terrorists in the world occupy the White House.” Two years ago when New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg was suppressing demonstrations at the Republican National Convention, the chief chaplain would have been fired for his remarks, but not today.

Abroad among peoples who formerly looked to America for leadership, American atrocities in Iraq have created sympathy and support for the Iraqi resistance. (more…)

by James Buchanan

A recent article from the mainstream news media reports “Americans are divided about whether illegal immigrants help or hurt the country, a poll finds. More than one-half of those questioned are open to allowing undocumented workers to obtain some temporary legal status so they can stay in the United States. At the same time, people doubt that erecting a fence along the U.S.-Mexico border could help to fix such a complex and enduring problem, an AP-Ipsos poll found. Two-thirds do not think it would work. ‘You can’t go and round up 11 million people and ship them out of the country,’ said Robert Kelly. The Chicago lawyer is among the 56 percent of Americans who favor offering some kind of legal status. ‘It just isn’t practical,’ he said.”

This is such typical propaganda from the mainstream media. They throw out a (probably phony) poll that “discovers” that most Americans don’t want to crack down on illegals just as the open borders crowd in D.C. pushes for yet another amnesty. Assuming the poll wasn’t a complete fabrication, they no doubt weasel-worded the questions to make Americans think Bush’s “guest worker” program isn’t a stealth amnesty. The poll results were either completely bogus or done in the most liberal parts of the country to try to make normal Americans think they are in the minority. Public sentiment against illegal aliens is sky high often exceeding 80 percent for clearly-worded polls. (more…)

by Charley Reese

The first weapon of choice for the Israeli lobby when someone with prestige publishes a soundly researched paper or book critical of Israel or its powerful lobby is silence. If it’s a book, it rarely gets reviewed; its author doesn’t get interviewed. If it’s a paper, there are no news stories in the big corporate press, no interviews with the authors, no television appearances.

For the average American who depends on the press to tell him what’s going on, it’s as if the criticism never existed. The second weapon is, of course, to launch vicious personal attacks.

Both methods are being used against an astounding paper titled “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy.” It was written by two renowned academics, John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen M. Walt of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

So far as I’ve been able to determine with the help of Google, while the paper and talk about it are all over the Internet, they are missing from the big corporate press as of this writing. It was published in the London Review of Books, and you can read it or download an edited version at www.lrb.co.uk. There was one news story about it in the Christian Science Monitor and an attack on it by David Gergen in U.S. News & World Report. Gergen is editor at large of the magazine, which is owned by an ardent Zionist, Mortimer Zuckerman. Gergen is a professional spinmeister who has always served the people who have the butter for his bread. (more…)