Americans Have Lost Their Country (Paul Craig Roberts)

In a few short years, the Bush-Cheney regime has destroyed the Bill of Rights, the separation of powers, the Geneva Conventions and the remains of America's moral reputation, along with the infrastructures of two Muslim countries and countless thousands of Islamic civilians. Plans have been prepared, and forces moved into place, for an attack on a third Islamic country, Iran, and perhaps Syria and Hezbollah in Lebanon, as well.

  Paul Craig Roberts -- Creators Syndicate

Mar. 1, 2007 -- The Bush-Cheney regime is America's first neoconservative regime. In a few short years, the regime has destroyed the Bill of Rights, the separation of powers, the Geneva Conventions and the remains of America's moral reputation, along with the infrastructures of two Muslim countries and countless thousands of Islamic civilians. Plans have been prepared, and forces moved into place, for an attack on a third Islamic country, Iran, and perhaps Syria and Hezbollah in Lebanon, as well.

This extraordinary aggressiveness toward the U.S. Constitution, international law and the Islamic world is the work not of a vast movement, but of a handful of ideologues -- principally Vice President Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Lewis Libby, Douglas Feith, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Elliott Abrams, Zalmay Khalilzad, John Bolton, Philip Zelikow and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

These are the main operatives who have controlled policy. They have been supported by their media shills at The Weekly Standard, National Review, Fox News, The New York Times, CNN and the Wall Street Journal editorial page, and by "scholars" in assorted think tanks, such as the American Enterprise Institute.

The entirety of their success in miring the United States in what could become permanent conflict in the Middle East is based on the power of propaganda and the big lie.

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