The War On Terror by Paul Craig Roberts, October 16, 2010 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Does anyone remember the “cakewalk war” that would last six weeks, cost $50-$60 billion, and be paid for out of Iraqi oil revenues? (Nov. 15, 2002, CBS: …Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld…rejected concerns that a war would be a quagmire. “… it’s [not] going to be a long, long, long battle of some kind… Five days or five weeks or five months, but it certainly isn’t going to last any longer than that…” ) Does anyone remember…
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“Unregulated Greed has Destroyed the Capitalist System”: The Big Things That Matter And The Little Things That Annoy
Paul Craig Roberts12 August 2010 I write about major problems: the collapsing US economy, wars based on lies and deception, the police state based on “the war on terror” and other fabrications such as those orchestrated by corrupt police and prosecutors, who boost their performance reports by convicting the innocent, and so on. America is a very distressing place. The fact that so many Americans are taken in by the lies told by “their” government makes America all the more depressing. Often, however, it is small annoyances that waste Americans’…
