The past few years of living under the Bush regime has led to some strange political bedfellows. One example is former Trotskyist Christopher Hitchens* allying himself with the warmongers in the Bush camp. More interesting to me is the case of Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration and Editor at The Wall Street Journal and National Review, defecting to the left and writing for Alexander Cockburn's Counterpunch. The Bush regime appears to have radicalized former Reaganite Roberts so much that he sounds more Chomskyish than Chomsky. The Right can keep Hitchens. I'm cool with having the somewhat hyperbolic Roberts on our side:

The criminal Bush Regime has now murdered more Iraqis than Saddam Hussen. The Bush Regime is also responsible for 20,000 US casualties (dead, maimed for life, and wounded).
Bush damns the "axis of evil." But who has the "axis of evil" attacked? Iran has attacked no one. North Korea has attacked no country for more than a half century. Iraq attacked Kuiwait a decade and a half ago, apparently after securing permission from the US ambassador.

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Where does the danger to the world reside? In Iran, a small religious country where the family is intact and the government is constrained by religious authority and ancient traditions, or in the US where propaganda rules and the powerful executive branch has removed itself from accountability by breaking the constitutional restraints on its power?

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Americans think that they are the salt of the earth. The hubris that comes from this self-righteous belief makes Americans blind to the evil of their leaders. How can American leaders be evil when Americans are so good and so wonderful?

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Wasn't it evil for the US to bomb Iraq for a decade and to embargo medicines for children?
When US Secretary of State M. Albright was asked if she thought an embargo that resulted in the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children was justified, she replied, "yes."

The former terrible tyrant ruler of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, is on trial for killing 150 people. The US government murdered 500,000 Iraqi children prior to Bush's invasion. When the US government murders people, whether Serbs, Branch Davidians at Waco, or Iraqi women and children, it is "collateral damage." But we put Saddam Hussein on trial for putting down rebellions.

Gentle reader, do you believe that the Bush Regime will not shoot you down in the streets if you have a rebellion?

*Shamefully, I must disclose that I used to be a big Christopher Hitchens fan. The folly of youth....