Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) tore into the Senate’s approval of a $95 billion support bundle to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan throughout a speech to the chamber earlier this week. He in contrast the narrative to propaganda used to attract America into the Iraq Conflict.
Historical past, he believes, is repeating itself. And it’s repeating itself on the identical degree of incompetence in relation to coping with the area.
“There’s one other historic analogy that I believe is price stating, and that’s the historic analogy of the early 2000s,” Vance railed.
“Now, in 2003, I used to be a highschool senior, and I had a political place again then: I believed the propaganda of the George W. Bush administration that we wanted to invade Iraq, that it was a battle for freedom and democracy, that those that have been appeasing Saddam Hussein have been inviting a broader regional battle.”
“Does that sound acquainted to something that we’re listening to immediately?” he asks. “It’s the identical actual speaking factors 20 years later with totally different names. However have we discovered something during the last 20 years? No, I don’t suppose that we’ve.”
Sen. @JDVance1 compares the propaganda from the institution that pushed us into the Iraq Conflict, to the propaganda pushing for limitless funding and escalation in Ukraine immediately 🔥🔥🔥
“It is the identical actual speaking factors 20 years later with totally different names.” pic.twitter.com/XZuQF62PiN
— Andrew Surabian (@Surabees) April 23, 2024
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Is Ukraine And Iraq Conflict Propaganda The Similar?
Senator Vance mentioned that immediately’s Ukraine propaganda is much like that surrounding the Iraq Conflict. That, by beating the battle drums, we are going to obtain success reasonably than participating in competent diplomacy.
“We discovered that if we discuss incessantly about World Conflict II, we are able to bully folks and trigger them to disregard their fundamental ethical impulses and lead the nation straight into catastrophic battle,” he laments.
The Congress immediately says we should present infinite navy support to Ukraine to keep away from additional battle, and to cease higher loss of life and destruction.
Within the early 2000s, they gave us the ‘weapons of mass destruction’ excuse. A story that we should combat to cease higher loss of life and destruction. That argument led to an almost 9-year battle in Iraq that price numerous navy and civilian lives.
Likewise, the battle in Afghanistan lasted so lengthy that a few of the individuals who fought in it weren’t even born but on 9/11.
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Iraq Conflict Too, Had Bipartisan Help
Critics of the Iraq battle and the previous intelligence failure involving weapons of mass destruction have change into extra prevalent.
The battle effort was approved on the time by a bipartisan vote in each the U.S. Home of Representatives and the U.S. Senate in October 2002.
The Iraq War resolution handed the Home by a vote of 296-133, and the Senate 77-23.
However these votes have been based mostly on defective intelligence. Are we working in Ukraine below the identical defective speaking factors and data?
Former President George W. Bush made one of many all-time Freudian slips in 2022 when he tried to sentence Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and unintentionally stepped on a rake.
Former President George W. Bush: “The choice of 1 man to launch an entirely unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq. I imply of Ukraine.” pic.twitter.com/UMwNMwMnmX
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) May 19, 2022
Talking on the subject of democracy, Bush condemned Russia the place “elections are rigged” and “political opponents are imprisoned or in any other case eradicated from collaborating within the electoral course of.”
Sound acquainted?
“The outcome,” he mentioned, “is an absence of checks and balances in Russia and the choice of 1 man to launch an entirely unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq.” Paging Dr. Freud.
Proper now there are not any checks and balances on US support to international nations. There are not any checks and balances on our personal border safety.
Vance, in the meantime, slammed European nations for not taking higher accountability in coming to Ukraine’s support. Maybe their propaganda isn’t as efficient as our personal.
“For 3 years, the Europeans have advised us that Vladimir Putin is an existential risk to Europe,” the senator states. “And for 3 years, they’ve failed to reply as if that have been truly true.”
The US Congress although, has repeatedly been duped into offering an open spigot of taxpayer cash to some of the corrupt nations in Europe.
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