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1/18 Even the Conservatives are starting to question Bush's wisdom
in stomping into Iraq:
http://www.vdare.com/roberts/bush_doomed.htm
\_ not sure that http://vdare.com is conservative website. I think deep
down, all Bush really wanted is to forge a pro-American dictator
in Iraq, thus, Bush can have a clean exit strategy. This is
never about democracy nor human right, nor do we REALLY
give a crap about Iraqi people.
\_ If the only goal was a U.S.-backed dictator, why not try to
instigate a coup? After all, Saddam *was* a U.S. backed
dictator.
\_ We tried to bring him down. His control structure was too
tight for subversion. If instigating a coup is as easy as you
say, we woudldn't of have this "North Korea" problem right
now.
\_ Roberts served under Reagan and worked for the Cato Institute
and the WSJ. His Conservative credentials are impeccable.
\_ ohh. I thought that 1. WSJ is relatively liberal, no?
2. Cato Institute, oppose to "American Heirtage Fundation,"
is a liberal think tank, no?
\_ Cato Institute is a libertarian think tank. You realize
you are a moron, mr. chicom troll, right?
\_ WSJ is "relatively liberal" only if your point of
comparison is http://freerepublic.com
\_ Uhm, ok. You understand that a single individual can not speak for
all of us, right? You also understand that on this side of the
tracks, we have never blindly followed anyone. Question everything.
When a conservative fucks up, we say so. I can point you to much
better articles where conservatives attack Bush. Want to know why
this happens so much to Bush? Because he is not and probably
never was a real conservative. He's a great Republican, however.
\- the time has come, the walrus said, to motd of many things.
http://sundials.org/about/humpty.htm --cheshire psb
\_ I'm glad you know how to STFW. That's a useful skill.
Another useful skill is 'critical thinking'. If you applied
some, you would see the world is not a simple black & white
place. In this case you would see that having a certain
political philosophy does not make one a member of a certain
political party. The opposite would also be clear to you.
\_ Christ, someone wasn't breast-fed long enough. I pity
you. |
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| www.vdare.com/roberts/bush_doomed.htm Is Bush Doomed? Home Why VDARE? Paul Craig Roberts Archive. January 16, 2004 Is Bush Doomed? By Paul Craig Roberts Fear must be coursing through President Bushs veins as he realizes the Iraqi trap in which the neocons have placed him. Bush is caught between an Iraqi civil war and a wider insurgency. Desperate to extricate himself from the weekly carnage well before the November election, Bush can neither deliver on his promise of democracy via direct elections nor impose his plan for an Iraqi assembly elected indirectly by caucuses. If Bush delivers on his democracy promise, the Shiites with 60 of the population will be elected, and the country will break out in civil war. If he tries to water down Shiite representation with his plan for an assembly elected indirectly by caucuses, the so far peaceful Shiites are likely to join the violence. If the Shiites become violent, the insurgency would be too large to be contained by our present occupying force. Moreover, the outbreak of a general rebellion in Iraq would spill over throughout the Middle East where unpopular secular rulers are sitting on a smoldering Islam. Our puppet in Pakistan would likely bite the dust. Israel would then face countervailing Muslim nukes. If you think more US troops are needed now in Iraq, imagine how many more would be required to deal with a wider conflagration. Where would they come from? The US military is already so thinly stretched that soon 40 of the occupying troops will be drawn from the National Guard and reservists, resulting in tremendous disruption in the affairs of tens of thousands of families. Pilots and troops are shunning the cash bonuses offered for reenlistments. The troops recognize a quagmire even if their neocon overlords cannot. The only source of troops is the draft. A Shiite insurgency that brought back the draft would deprive Bush of reelection. A civil war with the prospect of a Kurdish state would bring in the Turks. On January 14 Turkish prime minister Erdogan said that Turkey will intervene in the event of Iraqs disintegration. The Shiites and the Turks are forming an alliance as both have the same interest in maintaining the geographical integrity of the Iraqi state. The US could come dangerously close to military conflict with a NATO ally. All of this was perfectly clear well in advance of the ill-considered invasion. If Bush wasnt smart enough to see it, why didnt his National Security Advisor or his Secretary of State? How did a handful of neocon ideologues hijack US foreign policy? Bush did not campaign on a neocon policy of conquest in the Middle East. There was no public debate over this policy. The invasion of Iraq was the private agenda of the neocons. Why have the neocons not been held responsible for their treason in abusing their presidential appointments to substitute their personal agenda for Americas agenda? Bush has been the neocons puppet for so long that he is now stuck with responsibility for their horrible mistake. With no way of his own to get out of his trap, his arrogance toward the irrelevant UN and our doubting allies has disappeared. Come bail me out, he pleads. Bush, desperate to be extricated before doom strikes him is experiencing a reality totally different from the chest-thumping of neocon megalomaniacs, such as Charles Krauthammer, who declared the US so powerful as to be able to reshape, indeed remake, reality on its own. Bush now knows that he lacks the power to deal with the reality of Iraq. Indeed, Bush cannot even deal with his own appointees. COPYRIGHT CREATORS SYNDICATE, INC. Paul Craig Roberts was Associate Editor of the WSJ editorial page, 1978-80, and columnist for Political Economy. During 1981-82 he was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy. The Center for American Unity. We are supported by generous donations from our readers. Contributions are tax deductible and appreciated. Home Up Why VDARE? |
| sundials.org/about/humpty.htm Theyve a temper, some of them - particularly verbs: theyre the proudest - adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs - however, I can manage the whole lot of them! Now you talk like a reasonable child, said Humpty Dumpty, looking very much pleased. I meant by impenetrability that weve had enough of that subject, and it would be just as well if youd mention what you mean to do next, as I suppose you dont mean to stop here all the rest of your life. Thats a great deal to make one word mean, Alice said in a thoughtful tone. When I make a word do a lot of work like that, said Humpty Dumpty, I always pay it extra. Would you kindly tell me the meaning of the poem called Jabberwocky? This sounded very hopeful, so Alice repeated the first verse:- Thats enough to begin with, Humpty Dumpty interrupted: there are plenty of hard words there. Brillig means four oclock in the afternoon - the time when you begin broiling things for dinner. You see its like a portmanteau - there are two meanings packed up into one word. Well, toves are something like badgers - theyre something like lizards - and theyre something like corkscrews. They are that, said Humpty Dumpty: also they make their nests under sundials - also they live on cheese. |
| vdare.com Edwin S Rubenstein EITC: How the Tax Code Subsidizes Immigrants (Including Illegals) Since 1996 the IRS has encouraged taxpayers who are not eligible for Social Security numbers--basically foreigners, including illegal aliens--to file income tax returns using income taxpayer identification numbers (ITINs). The EITC works like this: Each additional dollar earned by a family with income below $32,000 and two or more children results in a federal payment of 40 cents--up to a maximum of about $4,000 for workers earning $10,000 annually. Workers earning between $10,000 and $12,500 do not receive any additional EITC. Above that, they enter the "phase out" range where the credit starts to diminish as the worker's income rises. Knowing that the EITC will replace a big chunk of their employees' incomes, employers will take advantage of subsidy and pay low-wage workers--immigrant and native alike--less. Thus the EITC essentially transfers money from taxpayers to employers, leaving its so-called beneficiaries as poor as before. Center for American Unity, a 501 non-profit corporation. This publication is not to be construed as necessarily reflecting the views of the Center for American Unity or as an attempt to aid or hinder the passage of any bill before the Congress of the United States. VDARE Web Master ************ Although care has been taken in preparing the information contained in this site and in selecting links to other web sites, this information is supplied without warranty. |
| freerepublic.com -> www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/browse Republic Log In | Register News/Activism Latest | Search | Topics | Home | Help News/Activism Threads Threads | Messages Search (by title: enter all relevant words or partial title) Search Austrians Praise Schwarzenegger in US Posted by Ernest_at_the_Beach On 05/13/2004 9:28:13 PM PDT with 1 comment The Las Vegas Sun ^ | May 13, 2004 at 11:56:36 PDT | GEORGE JAHN GRAZ, Austria (AP) - America, nein. Arnie, ja! When Austrians vent about the United States, the key word nowadays is "no" to things American, with only a few exceptions - including praise of Arnold Schwarzenegger. Arnie, that country has a real problem," says Robert Biber, echoing sentiments across Austria roused by images of US soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners. Outrage as KISS player mouths off on Muslims Posted by veronica On 05/13/2004 9:25:48 PM PDT with 3 comments Sydney Morning Herald ^ | May 14, 2004 KISS bass player Gene Simmons has caused an uproar among Australia's Muslim community by launching an attack on Islamic culture while in Melbourne. The lizard-tongued rock god who is touring Australia with the world's most enduring glam rock band launched an attack on Muslim extremists during an interview on Melbourne's 3AW radio - including comments which were labelled inaccurate. Cold Turkey Posted by Rennes Templar On 05/13/2004 9:23:01 PM PDT In These Times ^ | May 10, 2004 | Kurt Vonnegut Many years ago, I was so innocent I still considered it possible that we could become the humane and reasonable America so many members of my generation used to dream of. We dreamed of such an America during the Great Depression, when there were no jobs. And then we fought and often died for that dream during the Second World War, when there was no peace. But I know now that there is not a chance in hell of Americas becoming humane and reasonable. Because power corrupts us, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. May, 2004 10amET | Fintan Dunne The family firm of beheaded American Nick Berg, was named by a conservative website in a list of 'enemies' of the Iraq occupation. That could explain his arrest by Iraqi police --a detention which fatally delayed his planned return from Iraq and may have led directly to his death. Nick Berg, 26 disappeared into incommunicado detention after his arrest by Iraqi police in March, 2004. He vanished again after his release 13 days later. Science & Space ^ | Thursday, May 13, 2004 Posted: 10:13 PM EDT (0213 GMT) | From Dave Santucci, CNN Firm is competing for the $10 million X Prize Aircraft designer Burt Rutan and his firm Scaled Composites took a giant leap early Thursday toward becoming the first private company to send a person into space. Scaled Composites, funded by Microsoft co-founder and billionaire Paul Allen, set a new civilian altitude record of 40 miles in a craft called SpaceShipOne during a test flight above California's Mojave Desert. Turning Shame Into Outrage Posted by neverdem On 05/13/2004 9:18:08 PM PDT with 1 comment LA Times ^ | May 13, 2004 | Charles Paul Freund Charles Paul Freund is a senior editor at Reason magazine. It's a tough call whether Abu Musab al-Zarqawi the Jordanian militant who is reportedly responsible for the videotaped butchery of Nicholas Berg is more stupid than he is brutal, or whether he is a bigger monster than he is a fool. Zarqawi's own nauseating videotape makes the case for his indescribable brutality and may have inadvertently delivered his enemy from its own demoralization. Official Says War Budget to Exceed $50B Posted by Ernest_at_the_Beach On 05/13/2004 9:14:08 PM PDT with 3 comments Yahoo via AP ^ | Thu May 13, 6:29 PM ET | ALAN FRAM, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - Wars in Iraq (news - web sites) and Afghanistan (news - web sites) will cost more than $50 billion next year, a top Defense Department official told Congress Thursday in the Bush administration's clearest description yet of the conflicts' price tags. Berg's Father Demands Answers From Bush (Free Republic mentioned) Posted by kristinn On 05/13/2004 9:13:32 PM PDT with 25 comments Duluth News Tribune ^ | Thursday, May 13, 2004 | Nicole Weisensee Egan Posted on Thu, May 13, 2004 Berg's father demands answers from Bush BY NICOLE WEISENSEE EGAN Knight Ridder Newspapers PHILADELPHIA - (KRT) - The day he buried his son, Nick Berg's father angrily lashed out at President Bush - and said he had a question for him: "I would like to ask him if it's true that al-Qaeda offered to trade my son's life for another person," Michael Berg told a small group of reporters early Thursday morning outside his West Chester home. One Last Card to Play Posted by Russian Sage On 05/13/2004 9:10:54 PM PDT Claremont Review of Books ^ | Posted March 18, 2004 | By Peter W Schramm One Last Card to Play A review of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America, by Allen C Guelzo. Since 1865, the new york state library has been the proud owner of the original Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. Media Maelstrom Posted by hope On 05/13/2004 9:06:15 PM PDT with 3 comments News Max ^ | 5-11-04 | John L Perry Media MaelstromJohn L PerryTuesday, May 11, 2004 This presidential election is in peril of being swallowed in a perfect media storm, more terrifying than Edgar Allen Poes A Descent Into the Maelstrom. With the inexorable force of the novelists oerpowering whirlpool that funnels nearly every object in its clutches down, down, down into certain doom, the perfect storm of television is sucking American democracy into oblivion. The way things are headed, television mass communications with print media puppy-trotting alongside its ankles are what will determine the outcome of the 2004 presidential election. Not the candidates. Bush Team to Rework Iraq Funding After Senate Balks Posted by Ernest_at_the_Beach On 05/13/2004 8:59:04 PM PDT with 7 comments Yahoo via AFP ^ | Thu May 13, 4:11 PM ET | Vicki Allen WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Bush administration officials said they would rework a plan for a $25 billion reserve fund for Iraq (news - web sites) operations after Republican and Democratic senators on Thursday deplored it as an effort to get "a blank check" without congressional oversight. STRATFOR: Geopolitical Diary: Friday, May 14, 2004 Posted by Axion On 05/13/2004 8:57:27 PM PDT STRATFOR ^ | May 14, 2004 0305 GMT Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Richard Myers went to Iraq on May 13. Three things are clear from this trip. First, the administration is committed to retaining Rumsfeld, or at least is committed to doing everything it can to salvage him. An open letter-- Berg dies while the Senate preens Posted by hatfieldmccoy On 05/13/2004 8:54:43 PM PDT with 16 comments vanity | 5-13-04 | hatfieldmccoy Senator Hagel, Senator Nelson, It has taken two days for me to have regained my composure to the point I could actually write you. You see, I've seen the unedited video of the Berg (an American) murder. Yes I watched the horrors of 9-11. I saw the Pearl (an American) murder video and the burning and gleeful dismemberment of the four security personnel (Americans). But the Berg video was staring straight into Hell. These things took their time. They used a dull knife and took 30 seconds to saw off this man's head. AM ET LONDON, May 13 (Reuters) - Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper suspended the weekly column of Barbara Amiel-Black after its parent, Hollinger International, filed a lawsuit accusing her and her husband Conrad Black of looting the company. Martin Newland, the editor of Britain's top-selling broadsheet, "has decided to suspend the column until legal proceedings are completed," the paper said in a statement on Thursday. What Led Nick Berg to Iraq? Posted by dyno35 On 05/13/2004 8:48:10 PM PDT with 20 comments The Philadelphia Daily News ^ | May 13, 2004 | By William Bunch BERG'S JOURNEY SPARKED FBI PROBE AND OTHER STRANGE DETAILS HE WAS not like anyone else his friends from West Chester had ever known - an adventurous dreamer, a driven idealist, part philosopher and part inventor who was bored with college Record 26m divorce win 'a pyrrhic victory' (More Saudi kidnapping) Posted by Lan... |