Posted on 04/10/2022 10:11:38 AM PDT by RandFan
@ggreenwald
Here's Friedman's full answer. It was from May, 2003. Charlie Rose asked Friedman -- one of America's most strident war advocates -- whether, given everything that was known, including the likely WMD fraud, he still believed the Iraq War was justified:
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Only people like George W. Bush and Tony Blair will tell you that the war was still justified maybe a few personalities like Hannity and Bill O'Reilly will say similar.
It certainly is a strange justification...
The Bush types are out there and they support Biden’s policy in Ukraine.
What he said about the “terrorism bubble” that developed in the 90’s was actually spot on IMO.
We all have different views I’m sure some people do have that view.
However I think it’s very dangerous
He made perfect sense to me until I lost him at the end. We had to kick somebody’s ass. Shouda bombed their entire infrastructure and then leave. Threaten to turn 13 Arab capitols into glass if it should happen again.
Iraq? “Because we could. My choice would have been Libya but Hillary proved me wrong. Tom Tancredo suggested Mecca and Medina. Remember that?
The solution to 9/11 was simple, easy, and immediate - seal the borders, implement travel ban and extreme vetting with anyone from the mid-east.
Instead, Bush, Cheney, Blair and the deep state decided to involve ourselves with super-costly, divisive and failed wars in the mideast.
Pigs. They’re all pigs.
And start the road to the Police State, with the Homeland Security Act.
Combined with a crash program to make America energy independent with drilling and next gen nuclear plants. Imagine if all that money wasted in the Middle East had been spent on energy infrastructure.
I hope that Glenn Greenwald has a safe place to live. He is really digging up dirt on the Leftist elites.
warpiggies gonna piggy
I think he’s in Brazil.
He just discovered that Friedman is one of the worst neocons? Now that’s deep journalism!
Are we still taking off our effin shoes as we're rushing to the gate?
Well you can pay $100 for the "privilege" of not having to remove your shoes.
The war was justified from the perspective of Iraq violating the terms of the first Gulf War and also justified since Saddam was implicated in planning an assassination attempt on a former POTUS.
Now, the aftermath of the invasion was a disaster. Lack of planning abounded, and we should have cut bait many years before we did once portions of Iraq started cooperating with the Iranians. Heck, we should have started bombing Iran when this happened.
However, with hindsight being 20/20 the justifications used were simply not enough considering all the lost blood and treasure inflicted on our country and fighting forces.
Iraq is solidly in the Iranian web now. Let them “enjoy” it.
Just my .02 and I’m against any intervention in Ukraine. Not our fight.
Have at me if you like.
I'm sorry, I'm reading this as I walk:
And Zelensky said - "Join us, join for humanity to win!"
This is Clown World, man.
11 billion dollars - the European Union is going to be giving 10 billion euros to this clown.
EU money - EU freaking money, and they're gonna have a concert or they've had a concert.
I have to look it up, I don't know. Let me know in the comments if you know if they had this video concert from Warsaw.
youtube pearl jam madonna red hot chili peppers ozzy osbourne celine dion
Even Zelensky is sitting there asking for more sanctions on Russian banks and oil companies.
Give me weapons, give me sanctions - weapon sanctions, sanctions weapons.
Are we getting scammed - is this like another BLM type of scam that's going on?
You know - just a lot of money going into into some sort of fund that's supposedly going to be given to refugees, but we know it's not going to be given to refugees - just like the BLM scam worked.
And, uh - one of the BLM members bought like eight homes or something like that six homes that's not an exaggeration.
We're getting scammed - the military industrial complex is just making a ton of money - they're scamming us.
The EU is scamming us and NATO has found a new reason to exist and they're scamming us - but they're all pushing us to war because Russia's dead serious on their demands.
These clowns are pushing us to war while they're pocketing all the proceeds.
Unbelievable - unfreaking believable.
We're letting a billionaire clown actor who wears high heels lead us to World War Three while his patrons and his puppeteers are becoming fabulously wealthy.
That's the scenario - that's what's going on right now and people are actually buying into all of this.
Oh boy. All right, I'll end it there. That was a - that's some Clown World - that's a that's an 11 billion dollar Clown World right there.
Ursula Von der Leyen, the Queen of Clowns.
All right, everybody - that's the video.
Biden was right.Called for an independent Kurdistan. Kurds are split among 4 nations with lots of oil. It would have led to a lot more fighting amongst the restless in the other 3 countries. Not a bad idea.
Clearly you enjoy the forever wars that serve only the interests of K Street, Langley Inc, and the Pentagonists.
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