[Vision2020] "A Historic, Strategic and Moral Calamity"

[Ralph Nielsen]

"A Historic, Strategic and Moral Calamity"

Brzezinski's Damning Indictment

By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS

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."

Finally, a voice with weight speaks. Brzezinski is a real intellect,  
a real expert, unlike the political hacks who have followed him in  
the office.

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. The reasons have been enumerated many times and do not need  
repeating. 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.

Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the  
Reagan administration. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street  
Journal editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review. He  
is coauthor of The Tyranny of Good Intentions.He can be reached at:  
PaulCraigRoberts at yahoo.com