Iraq-Raping Neocon Upset That People Keep Bringing Up The Iraq Thing by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2020-01-29 at 22:27:11 )

Iraq-Raping Neocon Upset That People Keep Bringing Up The Iraq Thing by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

There is so much going on in United States politics right now that it is hard to know what to write about. With all the shouting about the election, impeachment, Donald Trumps bogus Palestine "deal" and so many other important political issues competing for airtime with Kobe Bryants death and coronavirus fear porn, it feels like we are already at white noise information saturation, and it is 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 Assanges 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 have been rehabilitated by a weird new alliance with the Democratic Party in the age of Trump.

In just the last few days we have seen a deluge of smear pieces against Mr. 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 establishments 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.

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 am 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 is nothing to brag about.", Mr. Boot bizarrely decided to attack Mr. Sanders on the fact that he has not often had to admit that he has been wrong about things.

"But it is true that I have 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," Mr. Boot writes, adding that he can be trusted now "precisely because I have changed my mind. Do not trust anyone who has not."

It is fascinating that Mr. Boot should choose consistency as a line of attack against Mr. Sanders, because he himself has been remarkably consistent throughout his entire career. He has 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 Mr. 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 Mr. 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.

Mr. 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 Donald Trumps 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 campaigns David Sirota, who rightly criticized his forceful promotion of the Iraq invasion. Mr. 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 has 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 do not 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.

Hey Max?

If you ever get tired of being completely wrong about everything, here is 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 do not think that way. That is why you are wrong more often than any normal person.

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 McDonalds.

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 Mr. Max Boot.

Let us 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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