[Vision2020] RE: A Reagan supporter tells it like it is

[Pat Kraut]

So some 'republican' agrees! Wow I really must change my estimation of Gore.





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Reynolds" <chapandmaize at hotmail.com>
To: <chapandmaize at hotmail.com>; <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 11:54 AM
Subject: [Vision2020] RE: A Reagan supporter tells it like it is


I cut a little from this article to show there is Republican agreement with
Gore's stance. To be intelligent is not treasonous anywhere but in the Bush
administration Pat.


Roberts' article appears under the headline: "Who Will Save America?" Who
indeed! The full text of his remarks can be read at www.counterpunch.org.

Paul Craig Roberts was former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the
Reagan administration. He also served as Associate editor of the Wall Street
Journal and was a contributing editor of National Review. He is greatly
concerned about the direction this country is taking.
Roberts says he abandoned right-wing Republicanism when he saw the
neoconservative element in the party respond to 9/11 by turning a war
against terrorism into attacks on Muslim nations. He said: "I realized that
the Bush administration was committing a strategic blunder with open-ended
disastrous consequences for the U.S. that, in the end, would destroy Bush,
the Republican Party and the conservative movement."
He believes the Bush administration has arrived at a point where it intends
to make the American people irrelevant, totally

Roberts sees that as symptomatic of what is taking place in the U.S. today.
"The United States is undergoing a coup against the Constitution, the Bill
of Rights, civil liberties, and democracy itself," he said. "The 'liberal
press' has been co-opted. As everyone must know by now, The New York Times
has totally failed its First Amendment obligations, allowing Judith Miller
to make war propaganda for the Bush administration, suppressing for an
entire year the news that the Bush administration was illegally spying on
American citizens, and denying coverage to Al Gore's speech that challenged
the criminal deeds of the Bush administration." (See article about the
wiretap scandal.)

He rightly notes that Homeland Security and the Patriot Act do nothing to
protect us. Instead, they undercut our safeguards by shredding the
Constitution and our civil liberties. Roberts commented: "Those with a
tyrannical turn of mind have always used fear and hysteria to overcome
obstacles to their power and to gain new means of silencing opposition."

"Hamas' victory in the recent Palestinian elections indicates that Muslim
outrage over further U.S. aggression in the Middle East has the potential to
produce uprisings in Pakistan, Egypt, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia. Not even
Karl Rove and Fox 'News' could spin Bush out of the catastrophe," Roberts
said.
The perpetual "war on terror" serves many interests, last of all, that of
the American people's welfare. Roberts points out that the Federalist
Society, from whence came Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, is using
the "war" to stack the high court and concentrate power in the executive
branch; the neocons are using it to gain their objective of Israeli hegemony
in the Middle East; police agencies are using it to remove restraints on
their powers and make themselves less accountable; Republicans are using it
to achieve one-party rule-their own; the Bush administration is using the
war to avoid accountability and limits on executive powers. The arms
industries are using it to fatten their bottom lines; terrorism experts use
it to get more visibility; and security companies use it to gain customers.
The list goes on and on. The lack of debate removes the limits.

Roberts concludes: "One certainty prevails. Bush is committing America to a
path of violence and coercion, and he is getting away with it."

James Reynolds


>From: "James Reynolds" <chapandmaize at hotmail.com>
>To: vision2020 at moscow.com
>Subject: [Vision2020] Gore's Foreign Policy
>Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 08:56:24 -0800
>
>Al Gore was following the only path toward resolution of the long-term
>miss-steps that our Government has employed in the Mideast. His talk in
>Saudi Arabia should not (as it is by some) be looked at as anti-America but
>instead is a first step in reconciling the relationship problems between
>the Mideast and the USA, American foreign policy has contributed to. We
>must return to the premise that diplomacy and honest open discourse are the
>tools needed to rectify our political problems abroad. Our government's
>reliance on direct military force against foreign governments and military
>assistance to dissidents against those same governments has contributed
>manifestly to the problems that are now threatening the security of the
>Mideast and the American people's own freedom. Our government needs to
>change its emphasis from the current militaristic attitude to one of
>diplomacy before it is too late.
>
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