Posted on 01/12/2020 8:18:44 AM PST by davikkm
"No voices calling for peace. No voices critical of empire. Just establishment media and current and former Pentagon officials who feed off the trillion dollar war machine."
As President Donald Trump spent the early days of 2020 instigating and then backing down from a potentially catastrophic confrontation with Iran, corporate media in the U.S. turned to the very same people who promoted the country's worst foreign policy disaster in a generation to advocate for repeating the mistakes of two decades ago.
The decision of networks and cable news outlets like CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News to bring on a stream of past advocates for and architects of the 2003 invasion of Iraq was panned by progressives who watched in horror and frustration as the same arguments were deployed in service of all-out war with Iran.
"It's War Inc. all over again," tweeted The Nation's Dave Zirin.
Trump's ordered assassination of Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani on January 3 proved the catalyst for escalated tensions between the U.S. and Iran. It also opened the door for news outlets to welcome back some of the key Bush-era war cheerleaders.
"In a sane and just society, the architects of the nearly 17-year-old war in Iraq—which is still ongoing and has left an estimated half-million people dead—would face war crimes charges and those who cheered them on would be thoroughly discredited." —Jessica Schulberg, HuffPost
The more things change, the more they stay the same, wrote Rolling Stone's Tim Dickinson.
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Yes that is right. I was thinking of a hypothetical bombing campaign in the event that Iran engaged in further bad behavior that would require really going after them. Certainly that is not the President’s preference. Heck if it came to it, maybe just drone the Ayatollah!
You really think that Trump wants a war?
I have read some nonsense here on FR before but this moves to the top 10
Neat - using a propaganda blog, posing as an Investment Watch, to make Trump look bad....why not just ask Chuck or Nancy or Adam or Jerry for a quote?
I hear Chuck Todd, Rachael Maddow, Joy Behar and a host of others would also offer comments.
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