Right On, Paul! Or Is It Craig?
A few excerpts are reproduced here from a recent column by Paul Craig Roberts."It is more proof of the Orwellian time in which we live that $636 billion appropriated for wars of aggression is called a 'defense bill.'” Which, summing up, followed the following:
"Amidst this worsening economic crisis, the House of Representatives just passed a $636 billion 'defense' bill.
"Who is the United States defending against? Americans have no enemies except those that the US government goes out of its way to create by bombing and invading countries that comprise no threat whatsoever to the US and by encircling others -- Russia for example -- with threatening military bases.
"America’s wars are contrived affairs to serve the money-laundering machine: from the taxpayers and money borrowed from foreign creditors to the armaments industry to the political contributions that ensure $636 billion 'defense' bills.
"President George W. Bush gave us wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that are entirely based on lies and misrepresentations. But Obama has done Bush one better. Obama has started a war in Pakistan with no explanation whatsoever.
"If the armaments industry and the neoconservative brownshirts have their way, the US will also be at war with Iran, Russia, Sudan and North Korea.
"Meanwhile, America continues to be overrun, as it has been for decades, not by armed foreign enemies but by illegal immigrants across America’s porous and undefended borders."
posted by Burt @ 8:20 AM
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