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Criminals Control the Executive Branch
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Twan
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Feb 11, 2007 13:24 PST
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Criminals Control the Executive Branch
By Paul Craig Roberts
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17021.htm
Gentle reader, you are probably unaware of former National Security
Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski’s damning indictment of the Bush Regime in
his testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on February
1, 2007, as the United States no longer has a media--only a government
propaganda ministry.
02/09/07 "ICH' -- -- Brzezinski damned the Bush Regime’s war in Iraq as
“a historic, strategic, and moral calamity.” Brzezinski damned the war
as “driven by Manichean impulses and imperial hubris.” He damned the war
for “intensifying regional instability” and for “undermining America’s
global legitimacy.”
Finally, a voice with weight speaks. Brzezinski is a real intellect, a
real expert, unlike the political hacks who have followed him in the
office.
Brzezinski told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that “the final
destination on this downhill track is likely to be a head-on conflict
with Iran and with much of the world of Islam.” Brzezinski predicts
“some provocation in Iraq or a terrorist act in the U.S. blamed on Iran;
culminating in a ‘defensive’ U.S. military action against Iran that
plunges a lonely America into a spreading and deepening quagmire
eventually ranging across Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.”
There is something deadly wrong with a society and a political system
that permits a Regime capable of such insane and criminal “leadership”
to remain in power. By the time Hitler launched World War II, the German
Reichstag had no power to prevent him. But we have not yet reached that
point in the United States.
Brzezinski concludes his testimony with the statement that it is “time
for the Congress to assert itself.”
The reasons for impeaching Bush and Cheney exceed by many multiples all
the reasons for impeaching every president combined in US history. The
reasons have been enumerated many times and do not need repeating. If
members of Congress were faithful to their oaths of office to uphold the
Constitution, Bush and Cheney would already have been impeached and
convicted.
The very least Congress can do at this very late stage is to make it
perfectly clear in no uncertain terms that any attack on Iran under any
pretext without the authorization of Congress after a careful
examination of the pretext will lead to the immediate removal of Bush
and Cheney from power, as will any escalation of the war in Iraq without
explicit authorization by Congress.
Having delivered this ultimatum, Congress must immediately begin
investigations of the Bush Regime’s attack on civil liberties and the
separation of powers, on the Bush Regime’s use of lies and deception to
lead America into a war with Iraq, on the Bush Regime’s violation of the
Geneva Conventions, and on the Bush Regime’s plans to attack Iran.
The American people and their representatives in Congress must face the
fact that criminal and dictatorial persons control executive power in
the United States and immediately rectify this highly dangerous
situation.
--Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the
Reagan administration. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street
Journal editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review. He is
coauthor of The Tyranny of Good Intentions.
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