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.
"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 …
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 …
"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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==================================* 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)
