From Raw Story:
President Bush's apparent plans for a preemptive nuclear strike on Iran will only add to the civilian death toll as a result of US intervention that has placed the president "high on the list of mass murders of all time," a former aide in President Ronald Reagan's administration known for strident anti-Bush rhetoric said Friday.
"Bush is too self-righteous to see the dark humor in his denunciations of Iran for threatening 'the security of nations everywhere' and of the Iraqi resistance for 'a vision that rejects tolerance, crushes all dissent, and justifies the murder of innocent men, women, and children in the pursuit of political power,'" writes Paul Craig Roberts, a former assistant secretary of the Treasury. "Those are precisely the words that most of the world applies to Bush and his Brownshirt administration."
Roberts, who has emerged as a fierce critic of Bush's war policies, accused the president of ignoring habeas corpus and the Geneva Conventions, justifying torture and demonizing critics as anti-American.
"Bush ... is responsible, according to Information Clearing House, for over one million deaths of Iraqi civilians, which puts Bush high on the list of mass murderers of all time," Roberts writes in a column published Friday on antiwar.com. "The vast majority of 'kills' by the US military in Iraq and Afghanistan are civilians."
3 comments:
This will be a major problem for the next President. After Bush has lied and broken the laws of the United Nations he just might be brought up on charges of murder. He's losing his power and others will look to take advantage of that weakness. Others will call it pay back. I have already written the UN and asked by criminal charges haven't be done against the only true Axis of Evil aka George W. Bush.
Many Iraqi news agencies claim he has more Iraqi civilian deaths on his hands than Saddam did, and Saddam had a longer reign.
Yes he does. We need to bring back the days of 'dirty tricks.' How Americans can stomach the deaths of over a half million Iraqis (maybe a million by now) and the displacement of millions more over an assassination, I don't get it.
M. Kaddafi was a pain in the butt in Libya until Reagan targeted his house. We didn't hear a direct peep out of that guy for years, although he tried doing a few things in secret. If Bush wanted Saddam so badly, geez, the presidential palace should have been targeted and it would have been all be over in an hour or two, with maybe 50 deaths, tops. Target two palaces at once for 100 deaths, tops. Or better yet, hire the guys who killed the Russian Litvenenko, although tell them to be a little bit more clean the next time. How is that not better than killing a million innocents, turning millions into refugees, and ruining the lives of innocent civilians in an entire country?
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