Aging Iraq invaders keep accidentally saying 'Iraq' instead of 'Ukraine'
June 29, 2023
President Biden accidentally referred to Putins war in Iraq when answering questions from the press, a year after former president George W Bush made the same gaffe. Both men played crucial roles in the push to invade Iraq.
Asked on Wednesday whether the short-lived Prigozhin rebellion was a sign that Putin was weakening, Bidenreplied, Its hard to tell really. But hes clearly losing the war in Iraq.
During the 2020 presidential race, Current Affairs Nathan J Robinsonwrote the followingabout Bidens pivotal role in manufacturing support for the Iraq invasion:
In 2003, Bidenwasa senator bullish about the push to war [in Iraq] who helped sell the Bush administrations pitch to the American public, who voted for and helped advance the Bush agenda. He was the wars most crucial senate supporter. Biden repeated the myth that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction,saying thatthese weapons must be dislodged from Saddam Hussein, or Saddam Hussein must be dislodged from power. The resulting war was one of the most deadly catastrophes in the history of U.S. foreign policy the Iraqi death toll was in thehundreds of thousandsor possiblyeven the millions, and 4,500 American troops died.
That Bidens decomposing brain would find the word Iraq when reaching for the word which means nation that has been illegally invaded by an evil government is positively Freudian.
In May of last year during a speech in Dallas, George W. Bush made a similar Freudian confession, saying, The result is an absence of checks and balances in Russia, and the decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq. I mean, of Ukraine.
After correcting himself with a nervous chuckle, Bush broke the tension with the words, Iraq too. Anyway. He then quipped that he is 75 years old, leaning harder on his Aw shucks gee willikers Im such a goofball persona than he ever has in his entire life.
I defy you to find me anything that is more quintessentially representative of the state of the US empire than these two clips. Two decaying empire managers fumbling around in their skulls for the name of nation thats been invaded by murderous thugs, and coming up with the name of the nation they themselves invaded. Its truly a thing of beauty.
Its absolutely ridiculous that theyre trying to charge Putin with war crimes while these two mass murderers are walking free. As American law professor Dale Carpenter has said, If citizens cannot trust that laws will be enforced in an evenhanded and honest fashion, they cannot be said to live under the rule of law. Instead, they live under the rule of men corrupted by the law. This is all the more true of laws which would exist between nations.
Its not a whataboutism to say its absurd to charge Putin with war crimes without charging men like Bush and Biden its a completely devastating argument against the claim being made. If the law doesnt apply to everyone, then its not the law, its just corruption. Its a tool of the powerful.
Original article published by Caitlin Johnstone on 29 June 2023