Corell — unlike the Trump supporters I know and still personally respect — does not give a simple and honest answer to anything. He cannot just say, “Yeah, I was wrong,” and leave it at that.
Most ignorant and then oh-so-easily-led North Americans believed the ‘patriotic’ (snake-) oil-and-MIC profiteering / imperialist lies of Bush & Cheney & Rumsfeld. One need not personally profit from a war to “defend” it as wrongheadedly as Hillary and Biden and the DNC did.
North Americans (and Republicans in particular) supported the illegal and absurd war and occupation of Iraq — at least so long as they thought they could get away with it! Trump more crudely and much later criticized the war, arguing (ridiculously) that the U.S. should have just “Taken the Oil.” This has always been our real and most essential motivation in the Middle East. But Baby Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” turned out to be the boondoggle even Obama warned against. Bernie & genuine anti-imperialists were absolutely right about this war, as about many other American adventures abroad.
IMO, you had to be a naive idiot not to see through the lies that were being told then about “WMD” and “Saddam’s support to Al Qaeda” and the “existential threat” posed by Saddam to the U.S. (or Israel) by our MSM.
Today similar lies are still being told … about Russian “aggression” in Crimea and Syria, and about Iranian “imperialism” in Iraq and Syria. Biden is continuing most of Trump’s international sanctions and propaganda campaigns, trying where possible to make them palatable to our allies. Uncle Sam continues to base troops without even a shred of legality in Northeast Syria. We illegally bomb in both Iraq and Syria. We sanction devastated Syria and prevent it trading normally with its neighbors. Syria — that utterly ruined country we did so much to destroy in the first place by our support to Sunni fundamentalists in its terrible Civil War.
But now that Biden has adopted Trump/Pompeo’s final “Lame Duck” propaganda lies about “genocide” and “slave labor” — in China — patriotic “American Exceptionalist” fervor may prove far more dangerous. China is a real economic competitor and a power that really hinders the U.S. desire for a unipolar world where Wall Street has “full spectrum” dominance. It is an alien authoritarian one party state-capitalist society to North Americans, which makes Biden’s “democratic” pretensions more appealing. Trump Republicans will continue to pressure Democrats for harder policies … that could easily lead to serious warfare in Asia, as well as a new round of proxy wars in Africa and elsewhere.
These are just some of my own passing reflections on this July 4th, 2021 “All American” — ??? — holiday.
I have NO RECOLLECTION of anyone suggesting that Iraq would attack the USA or that
he supported Al Quaeda. He not only advocated attacking Israel ALL HIS CAREER---
he even shot off some silly scuds. The FACT is that the BAATHIST movement ---very
much supported by Saddam is a danger to the world-----it is ARABIAN NAZISM----
and a danger to Kurds. For my part they could do whatever to the shitty shiites of Iran---
but Saddam ALSO murdered shiites in Iraq. Iraq, CERTAINLY, threatened Israel for
fun and political popularity
Iraq was NO threat to Israel.. Iraq was crippled by two decades of war and sanctions.
Read Bibi's Clean Break Strategy.
you are remarkably uneducated. When the islamo-/nazi hero Adolf wrote
Mein Kampf in 1925 he was------according to people like you, no threat to anyone.
Some people did recognize the threat. Saddam Hussein was a leader in the
ARAB NAZI BAATHISM MOVEMENT. He was already committing genocide against the shiites
in southern Iraq and the kurds in northern Iraq in emulation of the islamo/nazi hero
as you danced on the dead bodies of kurdish children rotting in the sun. You have
parroted the very same islamo/nazi propaganda that I read as a child that was LEFT
over from the 1930s-----SOS (same old shit). As a kid I lived in a town walking distance
from the town named EDISON----after Adolf's dear pal-----Thomas Edison. The old
propaganda pamphlets were ALL OVER the place