Perry's Prez plans include more criminal Iraq war

Texas Governor Rick Perry has gone all in with the Bush era war criminals and their warmonger supporters by slamming Senator Rand Paul for his anti war views. Perry's July 11, Washington Post op ed hurls the false and scurrilous "isolationist" charge at Paul simply because he calls out our criminal Iraq war for the waste of blood and treasure it was. Implicit in Paul's antiwar message is that the Iraq war was totally unnecessary and therefore criminal. Paul also comprehends that it began the current three way sectarian partition of Iraq, an artificial creation of the Brits after WWI to control Iraqi oil, into the Shi'ite, Sunni and Kurdish sections that are geographically inevitable, albeit with horrific civil war strife in the process.

Perry is either clueless, craven or both in claiming his status as a veteran, and a governor who sent tens of thousands of Texans to bleed and die in a made up war qualifies him to urge more intervention which would be foolhardy, counterproductive and criminal. Any veteran who pretends the Iraq war was legitimate and any governor who brags about his sending canon fodder to fight that war should be shunned as a dangerous fool. Perry represents the opposite of the two Republican icons, Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan, he claims would have supported our self destructive Iraq war and proposed new intervention. Ike and the Gipper avoided such madness for their combined 16 years. Ike left office warning us about the Military-Industrial Complex championed by  toadys like Perry. The Nuremberg War Crimes Trial judges had Perry and his ilk in mind when thay admonished those promoting military aggression that it is "the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole." Perry should also heed the words of chief US Nuremberg prosecutor Robert Jackson: "The record on which we judge these defendants is the record on which history will judge us tomorrow."

Gearing up for another run for the Presidency, Perry is sporting distinctive professorial glasses. They may help him to read, but they sure aren't helping him to comprehend.