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http://www.antiwar.com/roberts/?articleid=6468

 

June 29, 2005

 

A Defeat Bred in Deceit

by Paul Craig Roberts

 

 

 

" Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose

lying as his principle. "

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

 

 

 

 

When Bush decided, prior to Sept. 11, to attack Iraq, he committed

himself to lies and deceit. As his British co-conspirators realized,

only victory could save them from the consequences.

 

On June 27, General George Casey, U.S. commander of the " multinational

coalition " in Iraq, told morning TV audiences that the conflict in

Iraq " will not be settled on the battlefield. " On June 26, Defense

Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told TV audiences that " coalition forces,

foreign forces are not going to repress that insurgency. " The

insurgency, Rumsfeld said, might " go on five, six, eight, 10, 12 years. "

 

These admissions give the lie to Vice President Cheney's claim that

the insurgency is in " its last throes. "

 

Would Congress have let Bush invade Iraq if Congress had known that it

would not be a three-week war but a 12-year war?

 

What kind of fantastic lie or gross incompetence caused a 12-year war

to be marketed as a three-week war?

 

How can any people, no matter how deceived and deluded, support a

government capable of such miscalculation or deceit?

 

Would the Washington Post and the New York Times have been such

willing conduits of neoconservative propaganda against Iraq if anyone

on either paper had enough education to realize the catastrophe that

hubris was creating? What if either paper had possessed enough of a

reporter's skepticism to ask a question?

 

General Casey's and Secretary Rumsfeld's remarks make it clear that

the Defense Department has given up the prospect of military victory:

The situation in Iraq, Gen. Casey said, " will ultimately be settled by

negotiation and inclusion in the political process. " Rumsfeld says the

U.S. troops are being killed and maimed in order to " create an

environment that the Iraqi people and the Iraqi security forces can

win against that insurgency. "

 

After three years of fighting, Rumsfeld still doesn't understand that

the Iraqi people are the insurgency. Is Rumsfeld still clinging to the

myth that the insurgency is an outside element injected into Iraq?

 

When will the moronic Bush administration realize that it is creating

the environment in which the insurgency is prevailing?

 

Many readers write to me that Bush and his neocon crazies are Israel's

patsies. An equally good case can be made that Bush and his crazy

neocons are Osama bin Laden's agents. In a recent speech at the

American University in Cairo, Egypt, Secretary of State Condi Rice

repudiated America's 60-year-old policy of Middle East stability and

declared: " Now, we are taking a different course. "

 

Rice, being completely ignorant of the Middle East, believes that the

path to democracy is through instability. But, of course, instability

is exactly what bin Laden wants. The instability that the Bush

administration is creating will unseat our puppets in Egypt, Pakistan,

Jordan, and Saudi Arabia. Bin Laden intends to pick up the pieces.

 

The Bush administration has squandered America's diplomatic, economic,

and military power and is heading for defeat in Iraq, Afghanistan, and

throughout the Middle East. Bush's invasion of Iraq is fast becoming

one of the greatest strategic blunders in history.

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