Former
Reagan Aide: 'Brownshirt' Bush Among Top 'Mass Murderers
Of All Time' by
Nick Juliano, "Raw Story" Reporter, Aug 31, 2007
resident 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."
A
report last month found that US and NATO troops killed more
Afghan civilians in the first half of this year than the
Taliban.
Roberts said
the media is too concerned with stories like Sen. Larry Craig's
(R-ID) arrest for allegedly soliciting sex, and Miss Teen South
Carolina's inability to answer a question.
"The war
criminal is in the living room, and no official notice is taken
of the fact," Roberts writes. "Lacking US troops with which to
invade Iran, the Bush administration has decided to bomb Iran
'back into the stone age.'"
Roberts cites a
recent RAW
STORY
report that the US is preparing a "massive" military strike
against Iran to support his assertions.
"Encouraged by
the indifference of both the American media and Christian
churches to the massive casualties inflicted on Iraqi civilians,
the Bush administration will not be deterred by the prospect of
its air attacks inflicting massive casualties on Iranian
civilians. ... Clearly, turning the Muslim Middle East into a
wasteland is the Bush policy," Roberts writes. "For Bush,
civilian casualties are a non-issue. Hegemony uber alles."
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