Haven't seen this elsewhere, and I think it's worth noting.
Paul Craig Roberts has some solid conservative credentials: he was an assistant Secretary of the Treasury under Reagan, an associate editor of the Wall Street Journal, the author of The Supply Side Revolution, and was a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institute (I wonder if he knows Dinesh?)
...and he's jumping off the ship, big time.
In an essay published today on Lew Rockwell's blog, Roberts argues that that now, only impeachment can prevent more war- in fact that's the title of his piece.
Everyone knows that Bush’s Iraq "surge" will not work. Even the authors of the plan, neoconservatives Frederick Kagan and Jack Keane, have emphasized that the plan cannot work with any less than an addition of 50,000 US troops committed to another three years of combat. Bush is only adding 40% of that number of troops, and Defense Secretary Gates speaks of the operation being over by summer’s end...
Nevertheless, Bush defended his surge plan, telling a group of TV stations last week, "I believe it will work."
Bush is correct that it will work – indeed, the surge is working. We have to be clear about how the plan works. It does not mean that 21,500 more US troops will bring order and stability to Iraq. The surge is working, because it is deflecting attention from the Bush Regime’s real game plan.
The real game plan is to orchestrate a war with Iran and to initiate wider conflict in the Middle East before public and military pressure forces the Bush Regime to withdraw US troops from Iraq.
But I thought that's what you guys wanted- you know..."faster, please", and all that?
Civil libertarians who have observed the Bush Regime’s concentration of dictatorial powers in the presidency expect that war with Iran, especially if fearful nuclear weapons are used, will be accompanied by Bush’s declaration of a state of emergency. The Bush Regime will use the state of emergency to grab more arbitrary and dictatorial powers in the name of protecting "national security interests" and American citizens from "terrorism."
Congress is wasting precious time with non-binding resolutions and debates over cutting off war funding. The Bush Regime is rushing the country into a war and a domestic police state...
Nothing can stop the Regime except the immediate impeachment of Bush and Cheney. This is America’s last chance.
Personally, I don't agree with this guy. I don't think impeachment should be used as a kind of presidential recall election. I think there are other ways (and I hope, enough decent people even in this administration) to keep the Decider from starting another, even more disasterous war.
But I think it's instructive that even long time conservatives like this are now publically disowning Bush. And it makes me just a bit uneasy to think of an ex-alcoholic who is getting to a point of nothing left to lose...