"Most of Congress and the American public cannot imagine the degree of insanity that lies behind the Bush administration"

i often avoid reading paul craig roberts... besides being extraordinarily articulate, he is also writing from the conservative side of the fence, and as a former assistant treasury secretary under ronald reagan, when he writes on the horrors of the bush administration - as he routinely does - he writes with an unmatched credibility that, quite honestly, chills me to my very marrow...

The absurd analogy with Korea is so far-fetched that it raises the question whether the Bush/Cheney regime has entered a new, higher level of delusion. Bush cannot keep troops in Iraq permanently unless he intends to remain permanently in the White House.

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The neoconservatives still have a death grip on the discredited Bush regime. Jim Lobe describes the extensive international organization that the neoconservatives have put into place for the purpose of orchestrating an attack on Iran.

A sane reader might wonder why neoconservatives would want to expand a conflict in which the US has failed.

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The point is that the neoconservatives do realize this. Their defeat in Iraq and Israel's defeat in Lebanon has taught the neoconservatives that the US cannot prevail in the Middle East by conventional military means. ... [T]he neoconservatives' plan is to escape the failure of their Iraq plan by orchestrating a war with Iran in which the US can prevail only by using nuclear weapons.

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The neoconservatives have rewritten US war doctrine to permit preemptive US nuclear attack on non-nuclear countries.

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The neoconservative Bush regime has got away with more than I thought possible, perhaps because most of Congress and the American public cannot imagine the degree of insanity that lies behind the Bush administration. Most Americans who have turned against the regime think that the administration is incompetent, that it jumped to wrong conclusions about Iraq, and that it mismanaged the war and will not admit its mistakes. As every reason Bush gave for the war has proven to be false, people see no point in continuing the struggle.

If Americans understood the enormity of the deception behind the invasion of Iraq (and Afghanistan) and the pending attack on Iran, Bush and Cheney would be impeached and turned over to the War Crimes Tribunal at the Hague, and AIPAC would be forced to register as a foreign agent.

Just as Goebbels said, some lies are too big to be disbelieved. It is this disbelief that is so dangerous. The inability of Americans to see through the Big Lie to the secret agenda allows the neoconservatives to escape accountability and to continue with their plot.

The neoconservatives also believe that nuclear attack on Iran will isolate America in the world and, thereby, give the government control over the American people. The denunciations that will be hurled at Americans from every quarter will force the country to wrap itself in the flag and to treat domestic critics as foreign enemies. Not only free speech but also truth itself will disappear along with every civil liberty.

i guess what i find particularly chilling is to find someone who has a much better perspective and a great deal more experience in the way of our government than i do, that completely captures my own less-informed views... as i've said here ad nauseam, i think the u.s. is in the worst crisis of its history and i boil over at every mention i see of "incompetence..." it is nothing of the kind and the scenario roberts describes in his last paragraph is and has been the goal from the beginning, and, by god, they're doing a damn good job of getting us there - fast...

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