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dinsdag 5 mei 2020

Coronavirus: Democratische Partij omarmt oorlogsmisdadiger George W. Bush

Caitlin Johnstone heeft in een 'paar toetsen' aangetoond dat de top van de Democratische Partij George W. Bush prijst als een geweldige president...... Ze begint haar kritiek met de opmerking dat deze Bush weer volop in de aandacht staat, niet vanwege een aanklacht bij het Internationaal Strafhof (ICC) dat al lang geleden vervolging in had moeten stellen tegen G.W. Bush wegens oorlogsmisdaden, maar omdat de stem van deze opperschoft wordt gebruikt in een 'feel-good' video over de Coronacrisis.....

'Laten we niet vergeten hoe klein onze verschillen zijn tijdens deze door ons allen gedeelde dreiging (van het Coronavirus, Ap)', aldus Bush, die vervolgde met te zeggen dat 'we' geen tegenover elkaar staande strijders zijn, maar mensen die gelijkelijk kwetsbaar en tegelijk even dierbaar zijn in de ogen van god........ ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Hoe durft Bush deze woorden in de mond te nemen, terwijl hij het volk van de VS allesbehalve gelijk heeft behandeld, de armen zijn er ook tijdens zijn 2 termijnen op achteruitgegaan, waar de welgestelden er tegelijk flink op vooruit zijn gegaan...... Ook de landen die hij illegaal, op basis van leugens heeft aangevallen, stonden er al veel slechter voor dan de VS en waren militair geen partij voor deze terreurentiteit (als je het toch over gelijkheid hebt), waar de volkeren die het aangaat door acties van deze ploert in een nog veel slechtere toestand zijn beland dan die waarin ze zich al bevonden....... Van de fors meer dan 2,5 miljoen mensen die de VS en haar hielenlikkende NAVO partners hebben vermoord, vooral in het Midden-Oosten, staat het grootste deel nog altijd op naam van George W. Bush...... (al zat Nobelprijs voor de Vrede winnaar en tegelijk oorlogsmisdadiger Obama hem bij wijze van spreken op de hielen...)

Johnstone geeft in 5 punten duidelijk aan waar het aan scheelt als je het over Bush hebt..... Jammer dat ze niet stelt dat ook de komende verkiezingen een rol spelen in de plotselinge omarming van Bush, verkiezingen die in deze de leidraad zijn van de Democraten, immers Joe Biden stond volledig achter de illegale oorlogen die Bush tegen Afghanistan en Irak begon....... Zoals Johnstone terecht al vaak heeft opgemerkt: of Biden dan wel Trump zullen worden gekozen, zal niet uitmaken voor de bevolking van landen die de VS niet welgevallig zijn, zoals Iran, Noord-Korea, China, Rusland, Venezuela en Cuba..... 

Ook onder Biden zullen een aantal van de hiervoor genoemde volkeren het slachtoffer zijn en worden van sancties, illegaal opgelegd door de VS (in Venezuela zou de teller van het aantal doden door de sancties van de VS al zijn opgelopen naar 50.000, in feite vermoord middels een extreem smerige vorm van terreur...*)...... Johnstone maakt er een punt van vooral de Democratische Partij te bekritiseren, kan echter niet meegaan in deze, kwaad dient hoe dan ook benoemd te worden, of die nu van de Democraten dan wel van de Republikeinen komt, trouwens ik moet zeggen dat ze daar zelf de hand mee licht, gezien haar artikelen over een langere tijd.

De hiervoor genoemde vorm van terreur, sancties tegen landen die de VS niet welgevallig zijn, staat in het verdrag van Genève omschreven als misdaad tegen de menselijkheid, te vergelijken met de belegering en uithongering van steden tijdens de middeleeuwen........ Wellicht is Biden nog gevaarlijker voor de wereld, daar hij duidelijke tekenen van dementie vertoont en naast oorlogsmisdaden zijn handen niet omdraait voor ordinaire misdaad, zoals het chanteren van een land...... (Biden heeft ervoor gezorgd dat zijn zoon Hunter in Oekraïne niet langer werd vervolgd voor fraude en witwassen, daar hij eiste dat de procureur-generaal die dit onderzoek leidde zou worden ontslagen, daar anders een grote wapenlevering niet door zou gaan; e.e.a. toen hij minister van buitenlandse zaken was onder Obama....)

Five Things That Are Revealed By Democrats’ Rehabilitation Of Bush

by Caitlin Johnstone


George W Bush is in the news again today, and once again it's not for the only legitimate reason that he should ever be in the news, namely a war crimes tribunal. No, it's because his voice was used in a cutesy feel-good video about unity during the Covid-19 pandemic.

"Let us remember how small our differences are in the face of this shared threat," Bush is heard saying. "We are not partisan combatants. We are human beings, equally vulnerable and equally wonderful in the sight of God."

And, needless to say, Democrats are all over social media orgasming in their pants about it.

"This video made me ugly cry," tweeted actress-turned-McResistance pundit Alyssa Milano.

"A REAL president," tweeted the other Alyssa Milano, Debra Messing.

"In a million years I never thought I’d be crying watching this, thinking how much better we’d all feel if Bush were president today," tweeted former Democratic congresswoman Katie Hill to thunderous online applause.

The Intercept's Mehdi Hasan spent all day on Twitter defending his position that Dubya is superior to Trump, at one point even arguing "You can be a sane warmonger. You can be a warmonger but be an ok human being to your friends and family. You can be a warmonger and be able to handle a domestic public health crisis."




In a million years I never thought I’d be crying watching this, thinking how much better we’d all feel if Bush were president today. Wtf. https://twitter.com/thebushcenter/status/1256607729151619073 

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For years rank-and-file Democrats have been giving the true Butcher of Baghdad a majority approval rating, running with the common narrative that while Bush perhaps made some "mistakes", Trump is spectacularly worse. Here are five things that are highlighted by that common perspective:

1. It shows how little Democrats care about the lives of human beings overseas.

By the end of his first term Bush had launched two full-scale ground invasions, murdered a million Iraqis, destabilized an entire region in a way that would shortly give rise to ISIS, and ushered in a whole new level of unprecedented US military expansionism and imperialism. Trump has done none of these things. He has inflicted many evils upon our world and, like Obama, has continued and expanded the warmongering of his predecessors. But he has done nothing that rises to the level of depravity of Bush's wars.

The fact that Democrats see Trump's evils as not only equal to but far in excess of Bush's reveals as plain as day that, for all their supposed bleeding heart liberal sensibilities, they simply do not place much value on the lives of foreigners. Sure they might enjoy a little masturbatory melodrama over kids in cages when it shows up on their doorstep, but kids getting ripped to shreds by cluster bombs and being born severely disabled from depleted uranium munitions simply does not register for them, because they don't have to look at it.

They do not care. Rude tweets and racism are worse than institutionalized mass murder for them, because they have to look at one but not the other.

2. It shows that Trump-era Democrats are Bush-era Republicans.



The problem is that Bush and Cheney’s operatives, speechwriters, policy advisers, propagandistas and top aides are the close friends and colleagues of media liberals and DC Democrats and their beloved pundits, so they have to whitewash Bush’s evil to justify themselves: https://twitter.com/jeremyscahill/status/1256951318096347137 


"Dems have no choice but to rehabilitate George Bush because their core narrative is the US was a fundamentally good and decent land before Trump vandalized it," journalist Glenn Greenwald tweeted in response to Democrats' fawning over Bush, adding, "How do you join with Bill Kristol, Nicole Wallace, Rick Wilson, David Frum and the CIA without whitewashing Bush’s crimes?"

Indeed, Bush-era neocons have been able to fully ingratiate themselves to and integrate themselves with Democrats in the age of Trump by posing as moral opposition longing for a more civilized time when presidents would politely butcher humans by the hundreds of thousands without using offensive language like "shit hole". A gentlemanly time for gentlemanly presidents to unfold gentlemanly Orwellian surveillance measures all around the world without posting rude tweets about celebrities they don't like.

Trump-era Democrats are Bush-era Republicans. That's how far to the authoritarian right the party has moved in the last few years on important matters like foreign policy. You can see this by the shrieking, hysterical response they had to Tulsi Gabbard calling for what more or less amounted to a simple reversion back to pre-9/11 US foreign policy. It has been necessary for Democrats to gaslight themselves into this position because for three presidential campaigns in a row--Obama 2012, Clinton 2016, and now Biden 2020--they've had to find ways of convincing themselves that a politician who has facilitated Bush's foreign policy agendas would make a good commander-in-chief.

3. It shows how the amnesia-inducing effects of the mass media news churn make it difficult to retain perspective.



The News Churn Memory Hole: How The MSM Lies Even When Telling The Truth

"It’s not enough to simply expose the truth. You must also fully, repeatedly and consistently expose the ones who are telling lies."https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/the-news-churn-memory-hole-how-the-msm-lies-even-when-telling-the-truth-3662de102ff2 


Mass media propagandists are able to distort perception even while telling the truth using the news churn memory hole. Even when forced to report on uncomfortable truths like not finding any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq or the fact that the occupation of Afghanistan has been justified by an entire generation of lies, the memory of that reporting can be made to fade into the background by frantically reporting on what's happening right now without referring back to the previous revelations.

Russiagate alone did so much to distort people's perceptions in mainstream liberal circles.
Having the baseless narrative breathlessly promoted year after year after year that the Kremlin had literally seized control of the highest levels of the US government left rank-and-file Democrats who subscribed to it without any sense of scale or proportion, because they were constantly being told that the Most Important Thing Ever was about to happen.
How can you hold perspective on a million dead Iraqis when you're being told day after day, year after year in myriad ways that Russian Hitler was controlling your country but Super Mueller is going to swoop in to the rescue any minute now? It would be very difficult.

4. It shows the glaring difference between fact and narrative.

Most of the mass media reporting on Trump has been factual, it's just had a ton of narrative spin attached to the facts. It is a fact that Trump frequently says and does dumb, obnoxious and horrible things. It is a fact that many racists think he's the cat's pajamas. It is a fact that there was an impeachment and a collusion investigation. But the narrative overlay that has been heaped upon those facts while they're being reported--the urgency, the alarmism, the hyperbole--leaves viewers with the distinct impression that this US president is awful in a way that is unique and historically unprecedented, and he simply isn't.

Trump is not worse than Bush, the mass media just yell about him a lot more. If the narratives matched the facts, mass media consumers would be aware that nothing Trump has done is as evil as Bush's invasion of Iraq alone. In reality Trump didn't wind up being another Hitler, he wound up being another Obama (not a compliment). And if the narrative spin matched the factual reality, people would understand that.




liberals have the baffling ability to simultaneously believe both that George W. Bush was a good president whom they love and miss dearly AND that Ralph Nader is a piece of shit who's going to burn in hell for supposedly getting George W. Bush elected

5. It shows that this simply is not working.

Imagine you're out in the woods with a friend you trust in the dark. You know there's a horrible monster out there stalking you, and suddenly you hear it in the distance coming crashing towards you. It has picked up your scent and it will be upon you in moments.
You turn to run, but your friend grabs you and won't let you move. He falls to the ground grabbing your legs screaming "No! No! We must stay here! We mustn't move an inch!"
Who do you need to fight first? The monster? Or your "friend"?

That's why I focus so much of my criticism on the Democratic Party instead of the Republicans. Ultimately they're the party which could actually allow for positive changes to be made to the world, but instead they keep moving further and further into the warmongering totalitarianism they once purported to despise in George W Bush.

Relying on either head of the two-headed one-party system to make meaningful changes simply is not working, and will not ever work. No institution that would so warmly rehabilitate and welcome a bloodthirsty monster like Bush is going to help humanity one iota. In fact, its sole purpose is to do the exact opposite.
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Caitlin Johnstone | May 4, 2020 at 2:26 am | Tags: approval, bush, democrats, Dubya, liberals, Politics, rehabilitation | Categories: Article | URL: https://wp.me/p9tj6M-28a
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* Vergeet niet de 500.000 Iraakse kinderen die werden vermoord met de sancties van de VS onder de Democratische regering van Clinton. Hoofdverantwoordelijke daarvoor was Madeleine Albright, destijds minister van BuZa. Deze oorlogshoer durfde een aantal jaren geleden te zeggen dat die 500.000 dode kinderen de moeite waard zijn geweest....... Jonhnstone stelt in haar artikel in feite dat de Democratische Partij pas veel later het sancties en oorlogspad van de Republikeinen is gaan volgen, echter alleen het feit van die sancties tegen Irak toont ook in deze haar ongelijk, verder beging de VS onder Clinton enorme oorlogsmisdaden als bombardementen op civiele doelen...... Toch is het zoals zo vaak een prima artikel van Johnstone.

Zie ook:
'Job Cohen (PvdA) prijst Rutte en zijn aanpak van de Coronacrisis........ Een goed beleid? Lees dit!' (met links in dat bericht die meer verwijzen naar de situatie in Nederland)

'Bill Gates, CDC, WHO en de farmaceuten anticipeerden op de Coronacrisis in november 2019.....' (en zie de links in dat bericht naar meer internationale artikelen over het Cornavirus)