Lindsey Graham: "I blame Obama for Iraq, not Bush. Bush made mistakes. He corrected his mistakes."
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…by Jonas E. Alexis
Ann Coulter is known for saying weird and crazy stuff. She writes that “If Democrats had any brains, they’d be a Republican.” This axiom is actually the title of one of Coulter’s books. Coulter, arguably the most annoying noisemaker in the political landscape, should know that this is a false dichotomy, which is a literal fallacy in logic.
A false dichotomy usually occurs when a person presents only limited alternatives (generally only), when in fact there might be other viable options. Sometimes those limited alternatives are neither rational nor feasible.
Coulter has deliberately fallen into her own trap. Does she mean to tell us that we all have to jump into the “Republican” bandwagon, where the Neoconservatives/Neo-Bolsheviks see death and suffering in the Middle East like playing video games? Does she mean to tell us that we need to join Rick Santorum, who has relentlessly declared that “Iran, enemy; Israel, friend”?[1]
Does Coulter mean to tell us that we all need to write books applauding Bush for what he did in Iraq as she does? Does she mean to tell us that we need to approve her disgraceful statement that the Iraq war was “manifestly successful”?[2] Does she mean to tell us that we need to support terrorist groups such as the MEK as Bush did? Listen to this woman very carefully here:
“Contrary to liberals’
bizarro-world alternative history, Americans didn’t turn against Bush
over the Iraq War. We had won, executed a dictator, presided over
democratic elections, and killed loads of al-Qaeda fighters.”[3]
“Apart from a handful of deluded
neoconservatives, no one believes that the United States accomplished
its objectives in Iraq, unless the main objective was to commit mayhem,
apply a tourniquet to staunch the bleeding, and then declare the patient
stable while hastily leaving the scene of the crime…
“The fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq has exacted a huge price from the U.S. military—especially the army and the Marines.
“More than 6,700 soldiers have
been killed so far in those two conflicts, and over fifty thousand have
been wounded in action, about 22 percent with traumatic brain injuries.
“Furthermore, as always happens in
war, many of the combatants are psychological casualties, as they
return home with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or depression.
“The Department of Veterans
Affairs reported in the fall of 2012 that more than 247,000 veterans of
the Afghanistan and Iraq wars have been diagnosed with PTSD. Many of
those soldiers have served multiple combat tours.
“It is hardly surprising that the
suicide rate in the U.S. military increased by 80 percent from 2002 to
2009, while the civilian rate increased only 15 percent. And in 2009,
veterans of Iraq were twice as likely to be unemployed as the typical
American.
“On top of all that, returning war
veterans are roughly four times more likely to face family-related
problems like divorce, domestic violence and child abuse than those who
stayed out of harm’s way.
“In 2011, the year the Iraq War
ended, one out of every five active duty soldiers was on
antidepressants, sedatives, or other prescription drugs.
“The incidence of spousal abuse
spiked, as did the divorce rate among military couples. Debilitating
combat stress reached epidemic proportions. So did brain injuries.
Soldier suicides skyrocketed.”[4]
We certainly do not have time to detail the intellectual bankruptcy and the moral perversity of the Republican Party here.[5] In response to Coulter’s generally dumb statement that “If Democrats had any brains, they’d be a Republican,” I hasten to say that if some Republicans had any brains, they’d run away from the Zionist or Neoconservative or Neo-Bolshevik project in a heartbeat. As evidence, it is pertinent to bring in Jewish scholar Stephen M. Feldman, who declares that
“For more than twenty-five years, starting in 1980, neoconservatives stood at the intellectual forefront of a conservative coalition that reigned over the national government. Neocons earned this prominent position by leading an assault on the hegemonic pluralist democratic regime that had taken hold of the nation in the 1930s.”[6]
Coulter, in other words, has been duped. But she is not the only Looney Tunes out there dancing for the Dreadful Few for money, power, and fame. Senator Lindsey Graham is another classic example. Graham has just come out of the woodwork and made this stunning declaration:
“I blame Obama for Iraq, not Bush. Bush made mistakes. He corrected his mistakes. Obama leaving Iraq, ignoring the advice of all of his military commanders –he was told what would happen if you leave Iraq with no troops left behind….”
Bush, Graham continues to say, used “faulty intelligence…but with intelligence the entire world believed. So when you look at the mistakes of Iraq, the one I blame the most is Barack Obama, not George W. Bush.”[7]
Graham says he is “99.9 percent” sure that he will run for president.[8] My advice to him is that he needs to stay home, mow his own lawn, and stay out of politics for good. It is not that Graham is getting too old and that his mental faculties are fading—he is only fifty nine years old. The fact is that Graham has been a Zionist puppet since time immemorial.
Who told Graham that Bush “corrected his mistakes”? Bush? And how can you correct a mistake that amounts to at least six-trillion dollars in just few years? Is Bush or Graham a magician? Doesn’t Graham know that even magicians would be stunned to see how much money the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will cost?
When did Bush apologize to the American people for sending their sons and daughters to die for Israel?[9] Doesn’t Graham know that injuries send U.S. troops “into darkness”?[10] Doesn’t Graham know that “a million veterans” got injured in Iraq and Afghanistan?[11] Did George W. Bush apologize to Thomas Young, a young man who was severely injured in Iraq and who previously thought that Bush was telling the truth? Here is what Young wrote in 2013:
“I write this letter on the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War on behalf of my fellow Iraq War veterans. I write this letter on behalf of the 4,488 soldiers and Marines who died in Iraq. I write this letter on behalf of the hundreds of thousands of veterans who have been wounded and on behalf of those whose wounds, physical and psychological, have destroyed their lives.
“I am one of those gravely wounded. I was paralyzed in an insurgent ambush in 2004 in Sadr City. My life is coming to an end. I am living under hospice care.
“I write this letter on behalf of husbands and wives who have lost spouses, on behalf of children who have lost a parent, on behalf of the fathers and mothers who have lost sons and daughters and on behalf of those who care for the many thousands of my fellow veterans who have brain injuries.
“I write this letter on behalf of those veterans whose trauma and self-revulsion for what they have witnessed, endured and done in Iraq have led to suicide and on behalf of the active-duty soldiers and Marines who commit, on average, a suicide a day. I write this letter on behalf of the some 1 million Iraqi dead and on behalf of the countless Iraqi wounded. I write this letter on behalf of us all—the human detritus your war has left behind, those who will spend their lives in unending pain and grief.
“I write this letter, my last letter, to you, Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney. I write not because I think you grasp the terrible human and moral consequences of your lies, manipulation and thirst for wealth and power. I write this letter because, before my own death, I want to make it clear that I, and hundreds of thousands of my fellow veterans, along with millions of my fellow citizens, along with hundreds of millions more in Iraq and the Middle East, know fully who you are and what you have done. You may evade justice but in our eyes you are each guilty of egregious war crimes, of plunder and, finally, of murder, including the murder of thousands of young Americans—my fellow veterans—whose future you stole…
“You sent us to fight and die in Iraq after you, Mr. Cheney, dodged the draft in Vietnam, and you, Mr. Bush, went AWOL from your National Guard unit. Your cowardice and selfishness were established decades ago. You were not willing to risk yourselves for our nation but you sent hundreds of thousands of young men and women to be sacrificed in a senseless war with no more thought than it takes to put out the garbage.
“I joined the Army two days after the 9/11 attacks. I joined the Army because our country had been attacked. I wanted to strike back at those who had killed some 3,000 of my fellow citizens. I did not join the Army to go to Iraq, a country that had no part in the September 2001 attacks and did not pose a threat to its neighbors, much less to the United States.
“I did not join the Army to ‘liberate’ Iraqis or to shut down mythical weapons-of-mass-destruction facilities or to implant what you cynically called “democracy” in Baghdad and the Middle East. I did not join the Army to rebuild Iraq, which at the time you told us could be paid for by Iraq’s oil revenues. Instead, this war has cost the United States over $3 trillion.
“I especially did not join the Army to carry out pre-emptive war. Pre-emptive war is illegal under international law. And as a soldier in Iraq I was, I now know, abetting your idiocy and your crimes. The Iraq War is the largest strategic blunder in U.S. history.
“It obliterated the balance of power in the Middle East. It installed a corrupt and brutal pro-Iranian government in Baghdad, one cemented in power through the use of torture, death squads and terror. And it has left Iran as the dominant force in the region. On every level—moral, strategic, military and economic—Iraq was a failure. And it was you, Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney, who started this war. It is you who should pay the consequences…
“I have, like many other disabled veterans, come to realize that our mental and physical wounds are of no interest to you, perhaps of no interest to any politician. We were used. We were betrayed. And we have been abandoned. You, Mr. Bush, make much pretense of being a Christian. But isn’t lying a sin? Isn’t murder a sin? Aren’t theft and selfish ambition sins? I am not a Christian. But I believe in the Christian ideal. I believe that what you do to the least of your brothers you finally do to yourself, to your own soul.
“My day of reckoning is upon me. Yours will come. I hope you will be put on trial. But mostly I hope, for your sakes, that you find the moral courage to face what you have done to me and to many, many others who deserved to live. I hope that before your time on earth ends, as mine is now ending, you will find the strength of character to stand before the American public and the world, and in particular the Iraqi people, and beg for forgiveness.”
Did Bush apologize to the parents of the soldiers who committed suicide after the debacles in Ira and Afghanistan? Did he admit that he let the Neoconservatives/Neo-Bolsheviks dupe him into believing his own lies?
When did Bush apologize to the Muslim world for deliberately lying about Hussein’s so-called weapons of mass destruction? Why can’t Graham pick up The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder by trial lawyer Vincent Bugliosi?[12]
As Stephen M. Walt of Harvard has recently put it,
“The war in Iraq was a failure of policy, not
intelligence. The Bush administration decided to topple Saddam Hussein
and then concocted a bogus case to justify war. Blaming bad intelligence
is just a smokescreen the war’s architects and cheerleaders now employ
to evade blame for the debacle.
“For starters, Bush and the
neoconservatives mistakenly believed preventive war was justified
because Saddam was undeterrable. But Saddam was not suicidal, and if he
had ever obtained WMDs, he could not have used them or given them to
others without facing devastating retaliation. It was always an unnecessary war.
“Toppling Saddam was also unwise, as 33 security experts pointed out in a September 2002 New York Times advertisement (‘War with Iraq is Not in America’s National Interest‘).
They warned an invasion could “spread instability in the Middle East,”
noted ‘we had no exit strategy,’ and said Iraq was a ‘deeply divided
society that the U.S. would have to occupy and police for many years.’
“Similarly, when Army Chief of
Staff Eric Shinseki told a Senate committee in early 2003 that occupying
Iraq would require several hundred thousand troops, Deputy Secretary of
Defense Paul Wolfowitz derided Shinseki’s assessment as ‘wildly off the
mark’ and promised the occupation would pay for itself. The cost
eventually exceeded $3 trillion (along with many thousands killed or
wounded) but it was hubris and arrogance that led Wolfowitz astray, not
faulty intelligence.”[13]
Graham is definitely an agent of the Israel lobby. “Graham is an unabashed supporter of Israel. Graham threatened to derail the confirmation of President Obama’s nomination for secretary of defense, Chuck Hagel, remarking that Hagel ‘would be the most antagonistic secretary of defense towards the state of Israel in our nation’s history.’”
Let us hear from the horse’s own mouth, as he is getting ready to run for president:
“If I put together a finance team
that will make me financially competitive enough to stay in this thing…I
may have the first all-Jewish cabinet in America because of the
pro-Israel funding. [Chuckles.] Bottom line is, I’ve got a lot of
support from the pro-Israel funding.”[14]
“I want to thank you, Senator, for
your stalwart support for the state of Israel. I know that in the
American Senate, you have Israel’s back; and no one has it better than
you.”
Puppets like Graham do not deserve our vote and support. They are a disgrace to America.
What, then, is the alternative?
Last Saturday I ended up talking to a man who went to Johns Hopkins and whose professor was none other than Jewish Neocon Michael Mandelbaum, director of the American Foreign Policy program at the School of Advanced International Studies. First, he asked me what I thought about Jeb Bush, and I asked him if he saw the interview during which Jeb contradicted himself. He smiled and then said, “It was quite funny.”
Then we shifted our conversation to perpetual wars in the Middle East. Once I explained to him the worldview that posts beneath the surface, he instantly got it. During the end of our conversation, he asked me point blankly, “So, what do you think is going to happen to America if the country keeps going that way?”
My response was this: “It is unfortunate that we only have two political parties in the States, and both parties are handcuffed by a powerful force. Republicans can slaughter thousands upon thousands of innocent lives in the Middle East for Israel with no responsibility. Democrats can slaughter thousands upon thousands of innocent babies in the womb with no responsibility. Once the masses see that they are being seduced by a powerful ideology, I think they will rise against that ideology. Let us give it some time.”
He surprised me a little by quickly saying, “Time? How much time do you have? China is rising, and America is declining.” I simply was not ready for that statement. The man was ethnically Korean, and I stayed quiet for a while. Then I remembered J. R. R. Tolkien’s powerful message in The Lord of the Rings. America in particular is not in a good shape, but it only takes one person at a time to make a difference. Good and decent people everywhere must stand up for the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
Furthermore, lies cannot win forever. The Dreadful Few indeed fear this, and this is why they are doing their best to attack the truth and those who proclaim it. From our perspective, the Lord of history will put an end to this madness and chaos one day. This is encouraging.
[1] “Santorum to Obama: ‘Iran, enemy. Israel, friend,’” Times of Israel, May 9, 2015.
[2] Ann Coulter, Never Trust a Liberal Over 3—Especially a Republican (Washington: Regnery Publishing, 2013), 3.
[3] Ibid., 16-17.
[4] Andrew Bacevich, Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed their Soldiers and Their Country (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2013), 94, 105.
[5] We have done so in the past and we will expand on this in the upcoming book: Zionism vs. the West.
[6] Stephen M. Feldman, Neoconservative Politics and the Supreme Court: Law, Power, and Democracy (New York: New York University Press, 2012), 1.
[7] Quoted in David Lightman, “Lindsey Graham: ‘I Blame Obama for Iraq, Not Bush,” Miami Herald, May 16, 2015.
[8] Ibid.
[9] For studies on this issue, see for example John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007); Paul R. Pillar, Intelligence and U.S. Foreign Policy (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011).
[10] Gregg Zoroya, “Blinded by War: Injuries Send Troops Into Darkness,” USA Today, November 14, 2007; see also “Roadside bomb Blasts’ Effects on Brain Still a mystery,” USA Today, February 13, 2014.
[11] Rebecca Ruiz, “Report: A Million Veterans Injured In Iraq, Afghanistan Wars,” Forbes, November 4, 2013.
[12] Vincent Bugliosi, The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder (New York: Perseus Books, 2007).
[13] Stephen M. Walt, “Iraq Shows That Preventive War Worsens Problems Diplomacy Can Solve,” NY Times, May 18, 2015.
[14] Quoted in Beth Reinhard, “Lindsey Graham on 2016, Immigration and Israel,” Wall Street Journal, April 20, 2015.
[15] Jennifer Steinhauer, “Foreign Policy’s Bipartisan Trio Becomes Republican Duo,” NY Times, November 26, 2012.
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/05/19/dumb-and-dumber-how-political-donkeyheads-bamboozle-america/
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