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seafan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-10-07 01:53 PM
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Paul Craig Roberts: Brzezinski's Damning Indictment
Brzezinski's Damning Indictment

By Paul Craig Roberts
February 10 / 11, 2007


Most Americans are probably unaware of former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski's damning indictment of the Bush Regime in his testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on February 1, 2007, as the United States no longer has a media--only a government propaganda ministry.
Brzezinski damned the Bush Regime's war in Iraq as "a historic, strategic, and moral calamity." Brzezinski damned the war as "driven by Manichean impulses and imperial hubris." He damned the war for "intensifying regional instability" and for "undermining America's global legitimacy."

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Brzezinski told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that "the final destination on this downhill track is likely to be a head-on conflict with Iran and with much of the world of Islam." Brzezinski predicts "some provocation in Iraq or a terrorist act in the U.S. blamed on Iran; culminating in a 'defensive' U.S. military action against Iran that plunges a lonely America into a spreading and deepening quagmire eventually ranging across Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan."

There is something deadly wrong with a society and a political system that permits a Regime capable of such insane and criminal "leadership" to remain in power. By the time Hitler launched World War II, the German Reichstag had no power to prevent him. But we have not yet reached that point in the United States.
Brzezinski concludes his testimony with the statement that it is "time for the Congress to assert itself."
The reasons for impeaching Bush and Cheney exceed by many multiples all the reasons for impeaching every president combined in US history.

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If members of Congress were faithful to their oaths of office to uphold the Constitution, Bush and Cheney would already have been impeached and convicted.

The very least Congress can do at this very late stage is to make it perfectly clear in no uncertain terms that any attack on Iran under any pretext without the authorization of Congress after a careful examination of the pretext will lead to the immediate removal of Bush and Cheney from power, as will any escalation of the war in Iraq without explicit authorization by Congress.
Having delivered this ultimatum, Congress must immediately begin investigations of the Bush Regime's attack on civil liberties and the separation of powers, on the Bush Regime's use of lies and deception to lead America into a war with Iraq, on the Bush Regime's violation of the Geneva Conventions, and on the Bush Regime's plans to attack Iran.

The American people and their representatives in Congress must face the fact that criminal and dictatorial persons control executive power in the United States and immediately rectify this highly dangerous situation.




(emphasis added)
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OnceUponTimeOnTheNet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-10-07 01:54 PM
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1. K&R
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Eurobabe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-10-07 01:56 PM
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2. gave me the chills when I saw him say this, k, r'd and repeat
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dogday Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-10-07 01:56 PM
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3. I think the people recognize what is happening,
however I am not so sure about Congress..
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cui bono Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-10-07 02:07 PM
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6. I don't think they really know. I have friends that are apolitical and I'm sure they aren't
paying attention.

:(

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dogday Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-10-07 02:12 PM
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9. The people voted in November
for change. I think knowing that this administration is corrupt was part of that change, along with wanted to end the war....
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cui bono Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-10-07 02:54 PM
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13. But they don't know what's really going on behind the scenes.
I'm sure they know W is an idiot and that he messed things up in Iraq. Like I said, I have friends who don't follow this stuff and they're smart people, just don't look into these things. So if they don't know I know there's a ton of others who don't know as well. Hell, I try to keep up and there's a boatload of stuff that I don't know.

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dogday Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-10-07 03:30 PM
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14. They don't know the details, no, however they
know that things are not right with this administration...
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cui bono Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-10-07 04:57 PM
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15. That's what I'm saying. I agree. ;)
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Swede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-10-07 01:57 PM
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4. Absolutely terrifying scenario.
You pull in Pakistan,how can India and China or Russia ignore that. Or Turkey?
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CrazyOrangeCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-10-07 02:04 PM
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5. k&r
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MissWaverly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-10-07 02:07 PM
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7. I agree
and I will not vote for any of the enablers of this administration for president, you heard
it here first.

:-)
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HCE SuiGeneris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-10-07 02:08 PM
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8. Perfectly stated,
and I am in absolute agreement. We are being shoved off the gangplank.
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Poiuyt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-10-07 02:24 PM
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10. I love it when St. Ronny's people (like Roberts) attack Bush!
"The reasons for impeaching Bush and Cheney exceed by many multiples all the reasons for impeaching every president combined in US history."

Great line!
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Joe Chi Minh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-10-07 02:32 PM
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11. He sounds a brilliant man, doesn't he? But then, he worked for William,
didn't he?
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Amonester Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-10-07 02:33 PM
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12. Oh yeah! Long overdue! Pleased to read that! Kick & rec!
Now just who is going to impeach and indict the ba$turd$ who stole the People's House?

Who?
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bananarepublican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-10-07 05:56 PM
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16. K&R! This is a must read. Iran 'will be blamed' for something as a pretext for war. n/t
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reprehensor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-10-07 06:25 PM
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17. If anyone knows, it's Zbig.
We should consider his words seriously.

It's strange to see him nervous enough to go to the Senate's Committee on Foreign Relations like that, to warn against a terrorist act "blamed" on Iran.

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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-10-07 06:31 PM
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18. Brzezinski predicts provoking war with Iran - VIDEO
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leftstreet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-10-07 06:51 PM
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19. k&r
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volstork Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-11-07 11:26 AM
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20. recommend n/t
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pushycat Donating Member (401 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-11-07 11:56 AM
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21. Executive criminals think ahead a few steps. You can bet all your
US assets someone has a plan how to get around a Congressional halt to war plans. How about Martial Law after a hit in the US? Nobody will be removed from office in this case except those who speak of removing these criminals today. Don't know what it will take to stop the Admin - all the good guys are way too timid up to this point...
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Spoonerian Donating Member (131 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-11-07 12:19 PM
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22. The slaughter will continue.
all the good guys are way too timid up to this point

Then they're not good guys. Although I agree that they're probably too timid to click on a link like this: Made by USA on Haifa Street and see the effects of their crimes up close. They could stop it ALL immediately by cutting off the money pipeline, but instead the slaughter continues.



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teryang Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-11-07 01:12 PM
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23. Bias on Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings
Feith and Bremer get to defend themselves ad nauseum. Zbig gets no coverage whatever. Feith and Bremer are criminals who should be in prison along with their bosses.
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