Francis Boyle offers expert's analysis of Iraq war as "Pure Evil"
by Mohamed Elmasry
(Tuesday January 10 2006)
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"Not surprisingly, the mainstream American media did not give Boyle's
book
anything near the coverage it deserves. But one day, his expert witness
testimony, along with others, could be used in a court of law, or by
historians, to identify who is/was behind this pure evil. It may take
years,
but that day will surely come."
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President George W. Bush continues to staunchly defend his war against
Iraq,
in which more than 2,000 Americans and more than 30,000 Iraqis have been
killed -- with fatality numbers on both sides still going nowhere but up.
Iraq has become nothing less than a very expensive made-in-America
killing
field, in which every death -- whether Iraqi, American, or Coalition --
has
cost U.S. taxpayers more than 2 million dollars. That's 2 million, per
person, totaling 200 billion dollars so far.
Moreover, during 34 months of occupation, the U.S. has not built even one
more university, chool, hospital, bridge, factory, or road. Nor have any
massive scholarship programs been established at American universities to
help educate deserving Iraqi students in engineering, medicine, business,
and other vital infrastructural professions. In the meantime, there is no
public accounting to explain where billions of Iraqi oil dollars have
been
spent, and on whom.
Wars, death, destruction, human misery and loss of personal security are
all
misfortunes that people of good faith try to avoid or lesson among their
fellow humans -- but when these misfortunes become pure evil, it is more
often than not in the context of planned aggression, such as the American
campaign against Iraq.
For an excellent account of how this aggression came into being, the
people
who made it possible, and why, I strongly recommend you read Francis A.
Boyle's book "Destroying World Order: U.S. Imperialism in the Middle East
Before and After September 11." [1] This expertly-written book even
includes
a guide to impeaching George W. Bush! In fact, Boyle's book and his
testimony against GWB are extraordinary; this is because Boyle comes with
credentials unmatched by any of his critics.
He is not only a leading American expert in international law and a human
rights activist (a former board member of Amnesty International,
1988-1992);
he is also a distinguished professor with volumes of publications to his
credit, who teaches international law at the University of Illinois.
Boyle
holds a Doctor of Laws, as well as a Ph.D. in Political Science, both
from
Harvard. He is definitely not to be dismissed lightly.
"It is now a matter of public record that immediately after being
inaugurated as president in January 2001, George Bush, Jr.,
Vice-President
Dick Cheney, Secretary of War Donald Rumsfeld, and his pro-Israeli
'Neoconservative' Deputy Paul Wolfowitz began to plot, plan, scheme, and
conspire to wage a war of aggression against Iraq," Boyle writes. "Later,
they manipulated the tragic events of September 11 in order to provide a
pretext for doing so. The fact that Iraq had nothing at all to do with
September 11 or supporting Al-Qaeda - as the CIA itself advised - made no
difference to Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, their Undersecretary of War Douglas
Feith, Undersecretary of State John Bolton, and the numerous other
pro-Israeli Neo-Cons inhabiting the Bush, Jr. administration."
Not surprisingly, the mainstream American media did not give Boyle's book
anything near the coverage it deserves. But one day, his expert witness
testimony, along with others, could be used in a court of law, or by
historians, to identify who is/was behind this pure evil. It may take
years,
but that day will surely come.
Boyle recalls his student days at the University of Chicago (he earned
his
A.B. there in 1971) and how Professor Leo Strauss, who taught political
philosophy, trained an entire generation of students "to become ruthless
and
unprincipled Machiavellians."
"Years later, the University of Chicago became the 'brains' behind the
Bush
Jr. Empire and his Ashcroft police state," Boyle writes. "Attorney
General
John Ashcroft received his law degree from the U of C in 1967. Many of
his
lawyers at the Bush Jr. Department of Justice are members of the
right-wing,
racist, bigoted, reactionary, and totalitarian Federalist Society (aka
'Feddies'), which originated in part at the U of C. Feddies wrote the USA
Patriot Act (USAPA) and the draft for USAPA II, which constitute the
blueprint for establishing an American police state."
Boyle continues that, according to Bush, he hired 20 Straussians to
occupy
key positions in his administration and they "intentionally took offices
where they could push American foreign policy in favor of Israel and
against
its chosen enemies such as Iraq, Iran, Syria and the Palestinians. Most
of
the Straussian Neo-Cons in the Bush Jr. administration and elsewhere are
Israel-firsters: what is 'good' for Israel is by definition 'good' for
the
United States - making it questionable sometimes whether even the notion
of
'dual loyalties' accurately expresses the extent of diluted loyalty to
true
American interests and values."
Boyle's book was published in 2004, and although still timely, it merits a
new updated edition in which this most credible author can give more of
his
expert witness testimony on recent findings that Bush ordered spying on
American citizens -- but "only 500 of them," according to the President
of
the supposed "Free World."
Note:
[1]. "Destroying World Order: U.S. Imperialism in the Middle East Before
and
After September 11" by Francis A. Boyle
