President George W. Bush was in his stand-up comedian role
when he declared that he wanted to be remembered as a fighter for human rights.
Seldom has a fighter for human rights amassed Bush’s death
toll. According to Information Clearing House, Bush’s invasion and occupation
of Iraq has resulted in 1,297,997 dead Iraqis. Millions more have been wounded,
and millions are displaced. Bush’s legions have taken out weddings, funerals,
kids’ soccer games, hospitals, and mosques.
And that’s before we come to Afghanistan.
In Afghanistan “we don’t
do body counts,“ declared a commander of Bush’s imperial legions. But the
thousands of dead civilians and schoolchildren have rallied Afghans to the
Taliban, whose lightly armed fighters have retaken most of the country from the
Unipower.
The Taliban doesn’t have an air force, or cluster bombs, or
drones, or “smart missiles,” or
tanks, or satellite capability. The Taliban has Afghan resistance to
occupation.
Bush was fighting for human rights in 2006 when he prevented
for one month the civilized world from stopping Israel’s massive bombing
of Lebanon’s civilian infrastructure and civilian neighborhoods. Israel had
intended to clear Hezbollah out of southern Lebanon in order to steal that part
of the country for its water resources. When the vaunted Israeli Army was
defeated and put to rout by a few lightly armed Hezbollah guerrillas, Israeli
rage took the Israeli defeat out on Lebanon’s civilian population -- from the
air, of course. The murder of Lebanon’s civilian population was enabled by the
American weapons with which Israel is flooded.
Now Israel is bombing civilians in Israel’s Gaza Ghetto. Nothing
has been spared. Not the hospitals, the university, or the children. Again,
President Bush, to America’s everlasting shame, is blocking the civilized
world’s attempt to force a halt to the Israeli aggression against the civilian
population in Gaza.
If only Bush were merely a stand-up comedian. In truth, he
is a puppet. A puppet of Zionist Israel.
No one any longer listens to Bush’s radio addresses. Three-fourths
of the American people cannot wait until the moron’s last Oval Office days are
over. But his January 2 speech proves, yet again, that the president of the
United States is Israel’s puppet. Listen to the “leader of the free world”:
Bush:
“This recent outburst of violence was
instigated by Hamas -- a Palestinian terrorist group supported by Iran and
Syria that calls for Israel’s destruction. Eighteen months ago Hamas took over
the Gaza Strip in a coup, and since then has imported thousands of guns and
rockets and mortars.”
Fact: Neither Iran nor Syria calls for Israel’s
destruction. Reporting from Jerusalem three years ago, Chris McGreal (The
Guardian, 1-12-06) noted that “Hamas has dropped its call for the
destruction of Israel from its manifesto.” On June 22, 2006, McGreal reported from
Jerusalem that “Hamas has made a major
political climbdown by agreeing to sections of a document that recognize
Israel’s right to exist.” Hamas won the Palestinian election
that Bush and the Israeli government demanded be held. The democratic result
was unacceptable to Bush’s Israeli masters. Hamas was turned out of the West
Bank Ghetto and a puppet government installed. However, Israel had withdrawn
from Gaza in September 2005 in order to keep the occupied territories in the
West Bank, and was unable to dispose of Hamas in Gaza. Israel has decided to dispose of Hamas by violence against the
Palestinians in Gaza. George Bush supports this assault on democratic
elections, as does the US Congress (except Dennis Kucinich), and the US print
and TV media.
Bush’s January 2, 2009, radio address is one grand lie that
would win the World’s Biggest
Liar contest in Cumbria. Israel is turning Gaza into Auschwitz, and the
idiot puppet in the White House is blaming the Gazans.
Listen to the blatant lies of the puppet president who wants
to be remembered for his defense of human rights:
“Since Hamas’s
violent takeover in the summer of 2007, living conditions have worsened for
Palestinians in Gaza. By spending its resources on rocket launchers instead of
roads and schools, Hamas has demonstrated that it has no intention of serving
the Palestinian people [Hamas is the only organization that hasn’t sold out
]. America has helped by providing tens of millions of dollars in humanitarian
aid, and this week we contributed an additional $85 million through the United
Nations. We have consistently called on all in the region to ensure that
assistance reaches those in need [the last humanitarian ship was rammed by
Israeli gunboats and turned away]. And as I told President Mubarak, America
appreciates the role Egypt has played in facilitating the delivery of relief
supplies in recent days In addition to reducing humanitarian suffering, all
nations must work toward a lasting end to the violence in the Holy Land, and a
return to the path of peace. The United States is leading diplomatic efforts to
achieve a meaningful cease-fire that is fully respected [the US is blocking
a cease-fire, as it did in Lebanon in 2006, so that Israel can continue killing].
Another one-way cease-fire that leads to rocket attacks on Israel is not
acceptable [Israel engineered the breaking of the cease-fire that was in
place]. And promises from Hamas will not suffice -- there must be monitoring
mechanisms in place to help ensure that smuggling of weapons to terrorist
groups in Gaza comes to an end. I urge all parties to pressure Hamas to turn
away from terror, and to support legitimate Palestinian leaders working for
peace” [here the White House Puppet is saying that the elected
government of the Palestinians is not legitimate. Unlike Bush’s own elections,
Hamas’ election was not stolen].”
The president of the United States is a sick joke. He has
falsified history.
Hamas was elected in free elections in 2006. The US and
Israel responded by organizing sanctions against the Hamas government,
including the suspension of all foreign aid. According to news reports, the US
supplied arms to Fatah to take on Hamas in the streets of Gaza. As for Hamas’
resources, Israel has given part of the Palestinian tax resources to its puppet
Abbas and kept the rest. The role of the Israeli/American puppet Mubarak
is to keep Palestinians pinned in Gaza where they can be bombed by Israel. Mubarak
refuses to open the frontier so that Palestinians can escape their slaughter
by Israel.
Americans should be ashamed that their president is a puppet
of a small, but ruthless, state in the Middle East that lives off American
largess.
Nothing has changed with the election of Obama, whose first
act was to put Israel in charge of the White House. For the first time in its
history, the Americans have a dual citizen, an Israeli
who served in the Israeli military, as chief of staff of the White House.
My friends in the Israeli peace movement are despondent that
America, “the light of the world,”
is overcome by evil and serves wickedness.
Compared to Russia with its energy and leadership and to
China with its modern industry, the United States is a second rate power. The
US has nukes but can continue its wars of aggression only as long as the dollar
can survive as reserve currency. American power has been exhausted by
mismanagement. The United States is a discredited country, a bane on the world,
its nuclear arsenal a threat to life on earth.
Political scientist Michael Haas has just published a book, George
W. Bush, War Criminal? The Bush Administration’s Liability for 269 War Crimes.
Haas writes that Bush’s violations of law and the
Constitution “transform the United
States into a rogue nation feared by the rest of the world and loved by almost
none.”
America has entered its decline. America has exported its
manufacturing so that CEOs and Wall Street crooks could claim large bonuses
while the working class declined. The American financial industry is
discredited and in chaos, having resorted to stealing one trillion dollars from
American taxpayers, while putting the rest of the world into financial crisis,
including the destruction of Iceland’s currency.
Most of the world now has reasons to hate and to distrust
the United States.
American unemployment is high and rising despite the massive
printing of money and budget deficits that are too large to be financed, except
by the printing of more money.
The damage done to the American people in the first decade
of the 21st century by their own government is comparable in some ways to the damage
American hubris and self-righteousness have inflicted on the civilian
populations of Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Gaza, and South Ossetia. Instead of
losing their homes to bombs, more than one million Americans have lost their
homes to the subprime mortgage fraud. We are spied upon without warrants or
cause. Our civil liberties are endangered.
Does anyone believe that George Bush, who assaulted his own
country’s civil liberty, will be remembered as a “fighter for human rights”?
Paul
Craig Roberts [email
him] was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury during President
Reagan’s first term. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal. He has
held numerous academic appointments, including the William E. Simon Chair,
Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University,
and Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He was
awarded the Legion of Honor by French President Francois Mitterrand. He is the
author of Supply-Side
Revolution : An Insider’s Account of Policymaking in Washington; Alienation
and the Soviet Economy and Meltdown:
Inside the Soviet Economy, and is the co-author with Lawrence M.
Stratton of The
Tyranny of Good Intentions : How Prosecutors and Bureaucrats Are Trampling the
Constitution in the Name of Justice. Click here for
Peter Brimelow’s Forbes Magazine interview with Roberts about the recent
epidemic of prosecutorial misconduct.