"What lessons did American politicians learn from the Iraq War? The U.S. government has dropped an iron curtain around itself, making it far more difficult for Americans to learn of their government’s machinations abroad. Federal agencies are now
creating trillions of pages of new secrets each year. Each page is backed by a federal fist waiting to crush anyone who makes an unauthorized disclosure.
That secrecy is the key to the Biden administration’s conniving to drag America deeper into the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Biden buttresses U.S. intervention with the same “good versus evil” tripe that Bush used to varnish the Iraq War.
But White House and State Department proclamations on Ukraine have become as absurd as the pronouncements of Baghdad Bob in 2003.
The parallels between Iraq and Ukraine are increasing by the month. Biden, like Bush before him, touts his intervention as saving freedom. But the U.S. military shut down Iraqi newspapers that criticized the American occupation, and the Zelensky
government brutally suppresses opposition media. Bush and Biden claimed a human rights halo to justify their policies. But the invasion of Iraq was quickly followed by creation of a torture regime at Abu Ghraib, and Ukrainian government forces have
brazenly tortured captured Russian soldiers. Bush and Biden both invoked saving democracy to sanctify their policies. But the U.S. government ran rigged elections in Iraq after the invasion, and Zelensky has outlawed his political opposition. As with the
Iraq War, the president’s political allies in Congress have been mindlessly obedient and rushed to vilify anyone who criticizes the cost of U.S. aid to Ukraine.
And, as during the Iraq War, most of the American media shamelessly defers to the official storyline. Once again, TAC is doggedly fighting to expose the perils of permitting Biden to drag the nation into World War III.
In his 2004 State of the Union address, President Bush proclaimed that, thanks to the invasion of Iraq, “no one can now doubt the word of America.” But the lies and follies of the Iraq War earned the U.S. government distrust and contempt from much of
the world. Unfortunately, inside the Beltway, the political establishment still feels entitled to trample both the truth and peace as it pleases. "
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