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August 19, 2008

The Mindlessness is Total

Are You Ready For Nuclear War?

By Paul Craig Roberts


19/08/08 "ICH " -- - Pervez Musharraf, the puppet installed by the US to rule Pakistan in the interest of US hegemony, resigned August 18 to avoid impeachment. Karl Rove and the Diebold electronic voting machines were unable to control the result of the last election in Pakistan, the result of which gave Pakistanis a bigger voice in their government than America's.

It was obvious to anyone with any sense--which excludes the entire Bush Regime and almost all of the "foreign policy community"--that the illegal and gratuitous US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, and Israel's 2006 bombing of Lebanon civilians with US blessing, would result in the overthrow of America's Pakistani puppet.

The imbecilic Bush Regime ensured Musharraf's overthrow by pressuring their puppet to conduct military operations against tribesmen in Pakistani border areas, whose loyalties were to fellow Muslims and not to American hegemony. When Musharraf's military operations didn't produce the desired result, the idiotic Americans began conducting their own military operations within Pakistan with bombs and missiles. This finished off Musharraf.

When the Bush Regime began its wars in the Middle East, I predicted, correctly, that Musharraf would be one victim. The American puppets in Egypt and Jordan may be the next to go.

Back during the Nixon years, my Ph.D. dissertation chairman, Warren Nutter, was Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs. One day in his Pentagon office I asked him how the US government got foreign governments to do what the US wanted. "Money," he replied.

"You mean foreign aid?" I asked.

"No," he replied, "we just buy the leaders with money."

It wasn't a policy he had implemented. He inherited it and, although the policy rankled with him, he could do nothing about it. Nutter believed in persuasion and that if you could not persuade people, you did not have a policy.

Nutter did not mean merely third world potentates were bought. He meant the leaders of England, France, Germany, Italy, all the allies everywhere were bought and paid for.

They were allies because they were paid. Consider Tony Blair. Blair's own head of British intelligence told him that the Americans were fabricating the evidence to justify their already planned attack on Iraq. This was fine with Blair, and you can see why with his multi- million dollar payoff once he was out of office.

The American-educated thug, Saakashkvili the War Criminal, who is president of Georgia, was installed by the US taxpayer funded National Endowment for Democracy, a neocon operation whose purpose is to ring Russia with US military bases, so that America can exert hegemony over Russia.

Every agreement that President Reagan made with Mikhail Gorbachev has been broken by Reagan's successors. Reagan's was the last American government whose foreign policy was not made by the Isreali-allied neoconservatives. During the Reagan years, the neocons made several runs at it, but each ended in disaster for Reagan, and he eventually drove the modern day French Jacobins from his government.

Even the anti-Soviet Committee on the Present Danger regarded the neocons as dangerous lunatics. I remember the meeting when a member tried to bring the neocons into the committee, and old line American establishment representatives, such as former Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon, hit the roof.

The Committee on the Present Danger regarded the neocons as crazy people who would get America into a nuclear war with the Soviet Union. The neocons hated President Reagan, because he ended the cold war with diplomacy, when they desired a military victory over the Soviet Union.

Deprived of this, the neocons now want victory over Russia.

Today, Reagan is gone. The Republican Establishment is gone. There are no conservative power centers, only neoconservative power centers closely allied with Israel, which uses the billions of dollars funneled into Israeli coffers by US taxpayers to influence US elections and foreign policy.

The Republican candidate for president is a warmonger. There are no checks remaining in the Republican Party on the neocons' proclivity for war. What Republican constituencies oppose war? Can anyone name one?

The Democrats are not much better, but they have some constituencies that are not enamored of war in order to establish US world hegemony. The Rapture Evangelicals, who fervently desire Armageddon, are not Democrats; nor are the brainwashed Brownshirts desperate to vent their frustrations by striking at someone, somewhere, anywhere.

I get emails from these Brownshirts and attest that their hate-filled ignorance is extraordinary. They are all Republicans, and yet they think they are conservatives. They have no idea who I am, but since I criticize the Bush Regime and America's belligerent foreign policy, they think I am a "liberal commie pinko."

The only literate sentence this legion of imbeciles has ever managed is: "If you hate America so much, why don't you move to Cuba!"

Such is the current state of a Reagan political appointee in today's Republican Party. He is a "liberal commie pinko" who should move to Cuba.

The Republicans will get us into more wars. Indeed, they live for war. McCain is preaching war for 100 years. For these warmongers, it is like cheering for your home team. Win at all costs. They get a vicarious pleasure out of war. If the US has to tell lies in order to attack countries, what's wrong with that? "If we don't kill them over there, they will kill us over here."

The mindlessness is total.

Nothing real issues from the American media. The media is about demonizing Russia and Iran, about the vice presidential choices as if it matters, about whether Obama being on vacation let McCain score too many points.

The mindlessness of the news reflects the mindlessness of the government, for which it is a spokesperson.

The American media does not serve American democracy or American interests. It serves the few people who exercise power.

When the Soviet Union collapsed, the US and Israel made a run at controlling Russia and the former constituent parts of its empire. For awhile the US and Israel succeeded, but Putin put a stop to it.

Recognizing that the US had no intention of keeping any of the agreements it had made with Gorbachev, Putin directed the Russian military budget to upgrading the Russian nuclear deterrent. Consequently, the Russian army and air force lack the smart weapons and electronics of the US military.

When the Russian army went into Georgia to rescue the Russians in South Ossetia from the destruction being inflicted upon them by the American puppet Saakashvili, the Russians made it clear that if they were opposed by American troops with smart weapons, they would deal with the threat with tactical nuclear weapons.

The Americans were the first to announce preemptive nuclear attack as their permissible war doctrine. Now the Russians have announced the tactical use of nuclear weapons as their response to American smart weapons.

It is obvious that American foreign policy, with is goal of ringing Russia with US military bases, is leading directly to nuclear war. Every American needs to realize this fact. The US government's insane hegemonic foreign policy is a direct threat to life on the planet.

Russia has made no threats against America. The post-Soviet Russian government has sought to cooperate with the US and Europe. Russia has made it clear over and over that it is prepared to obey international law and treaties. It is the Americans who have thrown international law and treaties into the trash can, not the Russians.

In order to keep the billions of dollars in profits flowing to its contributors in the US military-security complex, the Bush Regime has rekindled the cold war. As American living standards decline and the prospects for university graduates deteriorate, "our" leaders in Washington commit us to a hundred years of war.

If you desire to be poor, oppressed, and eventually vaporized in a nuclear war, vote Republican.

Dr. Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury in the Reagan Administration. He is a former Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal, a 16-year columnist for Business Week, and a columnist for the Scripps Howard News Service and Creator's Syndicate in Los Angeles. He has held numerous university professorships, including the William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University and Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He was awarded the Legion of Honor by the President of France and the US Treasury's Silver Medal for "outstanding contributions to the formulation of US economic policy."

from here:

http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts08192008.html

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Nice work, now all I see in the advert banner at the top of this page is "Vote for John McCain"

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According to rodon ...

Nice work, now all I see in the advert banner at the top of this page is "Vote for John McCain"
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in wu-tang terminology, you are an 85er...

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I heart John McCain!



Sorry! Im just being a punk!

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dude omg what other presidential candidate has photos of him looking young from another century?

=]

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i know right!
he was kinda handsome too...
hee hee!

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dude omg what other presidential candidate has photos of him looking young from another century?

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^^^ i'll give John McCain props for being a tuff s.o.b. (who survived a pow camp in vietnam, and would not let himself be used for north vietnamese propaganda even if it meant daily beatings and months in isolation, and stuck with the pow code "first man in, first man out" when he could have been released years earlier because of who his fathers was) unlike the draft dodging pansy we call Bush.

...politics suck though, there all crooked in one way or another

[ jahwy - 22 Aug 2008 12:12 ]

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While I very much agree with the vast sentiment of the article, I have to say there are Republican constituencies who are against all that was mentioned therein. Or at least one - Ron Paul's. I consider myself Republican but am very strongly against any of the neoconservative s**t, and it makes me cringe to read stuff like "Republicans would get us into another war."

No, that's not true. It's the neoconservatives who would, not the legitimate Republicans. Lest we forget Democrats have historically (and are presently) also warmongers. Hillary voted for war in Iraq, Clinton had his share of bombings, and the "great" socialist Democrats of old (Wilson, Roosevelt, etc.) were all very interested in spreading American power across the globe... whereas when the Republicans were generally considered a decent bunch and the GOP wasn't overrun with fascist conspirators, they were actually elected to get us out of wars...

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i still cant figure out why being in a pow camp makes someone more experienced in international relations. Maybe a heroic survivor, but not a diplomat on a mission of good will.


nuke em all.

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I'm with you, Connor.

For someone who's so "experienced" (theoretically implying "good") at it it's amazing how long he's been dragging out the joke value of that "Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran" parody of "Barbara Ann" by the Beach Boys.

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ya know I still get pissed off when people say "well they voted for the war"

People voted for the war because the facts stated by Bush's cabinet that saddam has WMDs, powell holding up a vile of white powder at the UN, Rumsfeld saying he's got them, Cheney saying his got them, Condi saying they had them, Tenet saying they had them...All these people saying 100% they have s**t that would hurt America...s**t they were even showing us pictures from planes showing buildings that were suppose to contain these WMDs...

so people ended up voting for the war (((all along iraq has never attacked the US ever in the history of the country))) and now when they say it was a bad idea cause the facts were false they are called flip floppers...

fck I hate that. people have the right to change their minds if they find out what they were taught to think was wrong...s**t I guess all those people back in the day thinking the world was flat had to keep thinking it after they found out it wasnt...or they would be called flip floppers...

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hmm... i hate when i hear people in the military say " I'm gonna vote democrat i dont care who it is as long as it's not another republican ". dosent make for a valid decision.
i guess a lot of people that joined the military realized that when they joined and went through all that payed training, didnt think they would actually go to war.
i definitely appeciate those who did go and i tell them thankyou.

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To be fair, one of the bigger issues was that in order to go to war on a Constitutional basis the war has to be put to Congress and must be approved by a joint resolution. It wasn't.

Furthermore most of those f**king people voted in the Patriot Acts even when they wouldn't let them read them first. The Patriot Acts, as you should know by now, represent some of the most FLAGRANT abuses of rights this country has EVER SEEN. So there's really no reason to have sympathy for the Washington players - they're serving their own personal interests and those of the establishment, not yours or mine.

Simply put, many of them voted for this because it helps their careers to be in line with the political establishment - especially groups like the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).

War is a racket, and when big businesses get involved in war, they stand to make disgustingly huge profits. There's a pamphlet online in a variety of places by late Naval general and American hero Smedley P. Butler that goes into company profits from the first two World Wars in painstaking detail - you should really check it out, it's an enlightening read. There is MASSIVE collusion between business and government which more or less comprises the fascist shadow government we know as the Military Industrial Complex (MIC). The CFR is the most well-disguised public face of the MIC and most of the key players for Washington - both past and present - are involved, as are the heads of massive corporations (e.g. Xerox, Lockheed Martin, MetLife, American Express, Johnson & Johnson, etc.), educational institutions, (Johns Hopkins, Stanford, Columbia, etc.), Media organizations (Associated Press, NBC) - the list goes on and on. There are roughly 3000 members of the CFR by now.

So please, don't make excuses for them. The do-gooder ethic is largely nonexistent in Washington. We are being manipulated on a massive scale.

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According to ganjaboat ...

ya know I still get pissed off when people say "well they voted for the war"

People voted for the war because the facts stated by Bush's cabinet that saddam has WMDs, powell holding up a vile of white powder at the UN, Rumsfeld saying he's got them, Cheney saying his got them, Condi saying they had them, Tenet saying they had them...All these people saying 100% they have s**t that would hurt America...s**t they were even showing us pictures from planes showing buildings that were suppose to contain these WMDs...

so people ended up voting for the war (((all along iraq has never attacked the US ever in the history of the country))) and now when they say it was a bad idea cause the facts were false they are called flip floppers...

fck I hate that. people have the right to change their minds if they find out what they were taught to think was wrong...s**t I guess all those people back in the day thinking the world was flat had to keep thinking it after they found out it wasnt...or they would be called flip floppers...
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"Unleash the nuclear genie"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdJUCU1UH2w

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According to teekay ...

in wu-tang terminology, you are an 85er...
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wow. All I was doing was pointing out the irony of the article coupled with the Google Adwords banner.

Now I'm being labeled "uncivilized".

[ rodon - 29 Aug 2008 11:11 ]

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