Als het
om de VS gaat is niets te gek om je voorstellingsvermogen op de proef te stellen. Caitlin
Johnstone bericht over Max Boot, een jammer genoeg invloedrijke ‘neocon’, die stelt dat hij heeft
geleerd van de illegale oorlog van de VS tegen Irak, een oorlog die hij ook als journalist fiks heeft
gepromoot en waarvan hij nu toegeeft fout te hebben gezeten.
Dit
halfslachtige excuus gebruikt hij nu om Bernie Sanders aan te vallen,
Sanders één van de Democratische kandidaten die opgaat voor het VS
presidentschap…. Sanders gebruikt de illegale oorlog van de VS
tegen Irak als voorbeeld om het volk duidelijk te maken dat de VS
moet stoppen met haar terroristische interventies*, die keer op keer dood en verderf zaaien… Zo heeft de VS, met hulp van andere NAVO-lidstaten, alleen
deze eeuw al meer dan 2,5 miljoen mensen vermoord, dan wel is
verantwoordelijk voor de moord op die mensen……
Kortom
Sanders heeft duidelijk een goed punt als hij de agressie van de VS aan de kaak stelt,
agressie, of beter gezegd terreur die bovendien kapitalen kost. Echter niet in de
ogen van Boot, die wil dat Sanders zijn mond moet houden over de Irak oorlog en moet
toegeven dat hij wel eens fout zat, daar hijzelf ook al eens fout zat
en dat heeft toegegeven…. ha! ha! ha! ha! Boot zat niet één keer
fout, maar meerdere keren nam hij het op voor de VS terreur, die keer
op keer was gebaseerd op leugens, verdraaiingen, false flag operaties
en andersoortige desinformatie…… Hoe kan je stellen dat iemand wel fout moet zijn daar hij nooit heeft moeten toegeven fout te zijn geweest??? Krankzinnig!
Het is
wel duidelijk dat ook de media in de VS al bezig zijn om de
presidentsverkiezingen in november dit jaar te manipuleren en naar de
hand van de machtigen te zetten….. Bernie Sanders, Tulsi Gabbard en Elizabeth Warren, zijn liberale (in de echte zin van het woord) presidentskandidaten van de Democraten, waar je bij Sanders zelfs kan spreken over een min of meer socialistische inslag. Voor deze drie kandidaten geldt dat de reguliere (massa-) media hen ‘niet lusten’, immers zij vormen een bedreiging voor het grootkapitaal en de neoliberale status quo die men zo angstvallig verdedigt in die media…. Uiteraard is e.e.a. ook gebaseerd op de anti-oorlogsstemming van deze 3 democratische kandidaten, immers oorlogsvoering is goed voor de aandelenportefeuilles van de eigenaren van die media: plutocraten en investeringsmaatschappijen…..
Daarbovenop komen nog de enorme
giften van de hier voor aangehaalde plutocraten en investeerders, figuren die niet alleen
die reguliere media bezitten, maar ook grootaandeelhouders zijn van de wapenindustrie, de
oliemaatschappijen, de financiële sector, dan wel farmaceutische
industrie…… De giften van deze opperschoften bepalen uiteraard
ook de politiek die de gewenste en betaalde kandidaat zal volgen (al
geven ze zowel aan de Republikeinen als de Democraten), met andere
woorden: de VS verkiezingen worden al vele decennia gemanipuleerd,
niet vanuit Rusland, Iran, China of Noord-Korea, maar vanuit de VS zelf!!
Lees het
artikel van Johnstone waarin ze gehakt maakt van de miezerige
oorlogshitser Max Boot, die al eens durfde te stellen dat de VS moet bezuinigen op sociale zekerheid en medicare en de belastingen moet verhogen om het VS leger in staat te stellen andere landen binnen te kunnen vallen**:
Iraq-Raping
Neocon Upset That People Keep Bringing Up The Iraq Thing
There’s
so much going on in US politics right now that it’s hard to know what
to write about. With all the shouting about the election,
impeachment, Trump’s
bogus Palestine “deal”
and so many other important political issues competing for airtime
with Kobe Bryant’s death and coronavirus fear
porn,
it feels like we’re already at white noise information saturation,
and it’s not even February yet. Things are going to get a whole lot
noisier next month when the Democratic presidential primaries (and
all the establishment manipulations that will necessarily accompany
them) get underway, and Julian
Assange’s extradition trial begins.
One
of the many interesting developments that I can pluck out of this
cacophony to earn my keep here has been the hysterical response to
Bernie Sanders’ polling bump from the Bush-era neoconservatives
who’ve been rehabilitated by a weird
new alliance
with the Democratic Party in the age of Trump. In just the last few
days we’ve seen a deluge of smear pieces against Sanders published in
mainstream news outlets by virulent “never-Trump” neocons
Bret
“Bedbug” Stephens, David
“Axis of Evil” Frum, Jennifer “John
McCain is too dovish” Rubin, and
Max
“The Case for American Empire” Boot.
Which
has turned out to be a good thing so far, for two reasons. Firstly it
has ripped off the
mask of woke progressivism
that these neoconservative war whores slapped on their faces three
years ago to promote mass murder within the Democratic
establishment’s astroturf “Resistance” to Trump. Secondly
it has educated an entire new generation of young voters about the
evils of the Iraq invasion, and who helped facilitate it.
“You can trust me now,” I said, “precisely because I have changed my mind. Don’t trust anyone who hasn’t.”
⁰Which brings me to Bernie Sanders, who never seems to have changed his views about anything.
.@PostOpinions: https://wapo.st/2O9ujUG
Opinion | Bernie Sanders is ‘insanely consistent.’ That’s nothing to brag about.
The candidate’s rigidly held views are an ominous sign.
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It
is always a good sign when a bunch of pundits who push for increased
military aggression at every opportunity are upset about the same
thing, but I’m going to single out Max Boot here because his Bernie
tantrum has been especially hilarious to watch.
In
an article for The
Washington Post
titled “Bernie
Sanders is ‘insanely consistent.’ That’s nothing to brag
about.“,
Boot bizarrely decided to attack Sanders on the fact that he hasn’t
often had to admit that he’s been wrong about things.
“But
it is true that I’ve rethought my views on some important matters,
such as the Iraq War, and started speaking out on issues such global
warming, gun control and white privilege where reality conflicts with
conservative dogma,” Boot writes, adding that he can be trusted
now “precisely because I have changed my
mind. Don’t trust anyone who hasn’t.”
It
is fascinating that Boot should choose consistency as a line of
attack against Sanders, because he himself has been remarkably
consistent throughout his entire career. He’s just been consistent in
the other direction.
Promoting
fiendishly
aggressive interventionist agendas
everywhere from Iraq to Afghanistan to Libya to Syria to Iran to
Russia, the former
PNAC member
Boot has been a leading narrative manager for some of the most
catastrophically disastrous military interventions in living memory.
He has not just promoted imperialist agendas which destroyed the
lives of untold millions of human beings, but has also consistently
promoted the pernicious underpinning philosophy of that imperialism
as in his 2001 masterpiece “The
Case for American Empire“.
And
that is the one and only reason Boot remains gainfully employed as a
famous and widely circulated mainstream foreign policy analyst. He
has no redeeming characteristics.
He
is not smart. He is not charming. He is never, ever right about
anything. He simply advocates for the deployment of expensive
military equipment consistently and reliably.
The
oligarchic media love that in a guy.
Me:
I was wrong and I admit it, but I learned from it. Bernie should too.
He’s been wrong about some stuff.
Bernie
Bro: You were wrong. Why should we listen to you?
— Max
Boot (@MaxBoot) January
29, 2020
Boot,
who has been giddy
with excitement
that his fellow traveller John Bolton has entered his side of the
impeachment debate, wrapped up his unintentional self-parody by
cheerleading
Trump’s regime change interventionism
in Venezuela and the right-wing military coup in Bolivia. After its
publication he quickly found
himself under fire
on Twitter by the Sanders campaign’s David Sirota, who rightly
criticized his forceful promotion of the Iraq invasion. Boot
responded by whining that the “Bernie Bro” should accept
his admission that Iraq was a mistake and forget about the whole
thing.
“Me:
I was wrong and I admit it, but I learned from it. Bernie should too.
He’s been wrong about some stuff. Bernie Bro: You were wrong. Why
should we listen to you?”, Boot tweeted.
“LOL.
Exactly,” Jennifer Rubin responded.
And
that just says so much about the coddled, insulated, completely
unchallenged life that these mass media pundits are accustomed to,
right there. To believe that you can help pave the way for a war that
kills a million people based on lies and then years later say
“Oh
yeah I made an oopsie with that one, I need a do-over” requires
an unbelievable amount of entitlement and privilege, let alone to be
able to self-righteously hold that admission up as some kind of
superior virtue that is worthy of praise and deference.
You
don’t get to help murder a million people and then act indignant when
people bring it up. That is not a thing. Your admission of wrongdoing
does not undo the wrong that you did, and only someone who has been
raised in a consequence-free environment their entire life could
possibly believe that it would.
About to go on @CNNTonight to discuss impeachment. http://wapo.st/313fSai
Striking that Trump lawyers pretend Bolton smoking-gun evidence doesn’t exist. And that so many GOP senators still argue that there’s no reason to hear from Bolton. The lack of GOP outrage is outrageous.
Opinion | Republicans’ lack of outrage — even after Bolton’s smoking-gun evidence — is outrageous
The president’s abuse of power is a far bigger deal than Adam Schiff’s remark.
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Hey
Max? If you ever get tired of being completely wrong about
everything, here’s a hot tip for you: maybe start with crossing off
the idea that murdering a bunch of people is an ideal solution to
every problem. Normal people don’t think that way. That’s why
you’re wrong more often than any normal person. It really is that
simple.
Nobody
who promoted the unforgivable Iraq invasion should ever be listened
to about anything for as long as they live. They certainly should not
be elevated in prominent slots on mainstream news outlets. They
should not even be able to find employment anywhere more glamorous
than a McDonald’s.
It
is good that these people are exposing themselves, and it is good
that more people are learning about the Iraq invasion. Nothing has
ever been done to make right the unfathomable evils which were
inflicted upon our species by that one horrific act, let alone the
many other disastrous interventions which have been endorsed by Max
Boot.
Let’s
all hope for a sane world where mass military slaughter is seen for
what it is, and where war whores like Max Boot are seen for what they
are, and where both of these things fade into obsolescence forever.
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* Je begrijpt dat Sanders de illegale interventies van de VS nooit zal aanduiden als ‘terreur’, immers dat zou onmiddellijk een eind maken aan zijn politieke carriere…… In de VS mag je gerust kritiek uitoefenen op het buitenlandbeleid van de VS en op de acties die het leger uitvoert, echter als politicus het woord terreur gebruiken voor de acties van dat leger, gaat 10 stations te ver en zal onmiddellijk een hysterische haat- en lastercampagne uitlokken bij de reguliere media……
Zie ook:
‘Joe
Biden met dubbel verlies: hij dreigde met een rechtszaak om zo de
resultaten van de voorverkiezingen in Iowa tegen te houden van
publicatie‘ (zie ook de links in dat bericht naar meer info over de VS [voor-]verkiezingen van 2020)
Voor meer berichten over de illegale oorlog tegen Irak, Max Boot en/of Sanders, klik op het bewuste label, direct onder dit bericht.