George Bush and the Greatest Freudian Slip in History
It’s the best when these cretins emerge and expose themselves
One of the shocking developments of the Trump era was the rehabilitation of dozens and dozens of horrific war criminal neocons. All these Republican operatives and Bush advisors that were once loathed by the liberal suburban soccer mom crowd were immediately welcomed back into the good graces of American discourse simply by feigning to be anti-Trump.
The dickheads from the Lincoln Project, who were even dunked on by a now-incredibly lame and watered down Stephen Cobert, suddenly became resistance heroes.
Liz Cheney, the daughter of one of the most evil men to ever walk this planet, became a profile in courage.
Nicole Wallace went from the Bush White House to mainstream media in flawless fashion and proceeded to spread fake story after fake story on cringe-Democrat mouthpiece MSNBC.
And George freaking Bush himself somehow became a nice Texas grandpa who enjoys painting, reminiscing on his coked-up college days with Ellen, and never getting asked about his war criminal past.
In the few public appearances, he does nowadays, his disaster of a presidency seems all but forgotten.
But the Universe works in mysterious ways, and there was one minor tally on the ledger for the good guys when George recently had the greatest Freudian slip in the history of humanity.
“The decision by one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq… I mean Ukraine… Iraq too (under his breath).
That might be the truest thing he’s ever said. The crowd reacted in subdued laughter, and it was quite a mask-off moment.
The sad part is that our media is so effective at whitewashing our conflicts and imperialist murder that there are people across the nation who believe we’ve done no wrong. That we’re the ‘benevolent’ global superpower, trying its best to ‘bring democracy and freedom’ to all. People truly believe that sh*t. It’s embarrassing.
Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis died due to that illegal and unjustified invasion — some put it at one million. The US had an official torture program, engaged in extraordinary rendition, and held dozens in an extra-judicial prison without a trial for decades.
No American general or White House official paid a price, went to prison, or was tried at the Hague. How do we not talk about that like it was a genocide? Our mainstream media doesn’t even use the term ‘war crime.’
Again, it shows the effective propagandizing of our education system, media, and Hollywood that we can’t have a proper conversation about what that war really was or what most American interventions truly are.
No Washington decision-makers ever facing international consequences also shows the US domination over all those ‘rules-based’ global institutions like the International Criminal Court.
The laws don’t apply to us. When the US does anything, by definition, it can’t be a war crime.
No ‘journalism’ careers were derailed for pushing deadly misinformation, most failed upward and are still on our freaking TVs commenting on current events.
The Iraq War was started on a blatant fabrication perpetrated by the entire corporate media complex.
No ‘journalism’ careers were derailed for pushing deadly misinformation, most failed upward and are still on our freaking TVs commenting on current events. They’ve been wrong on every foreign policy issue for thirty years and still are contributing falsehoods to our national discourse.
These days, the press is trying its best to spin a no-win proxy war into some sort of victory.
But current events seem to be the last gasps of a dying empire trying to remain on top — and I’m talking about America.
Obviously, I’m against war when our empire or any other initiates it. That should be obvious, and I’m starting to resist the urge to put in seventy-seven caveats about how horrible, unjustified, and criminal the current invasion is. That should go without saying, but the media atmosphere and conversations surrounding the current crisis are incredibly reactionary and toxic.
In sixty-plus years of journalism, Robert Scheer said he’s never seen it this bad, not during Vietnam, Iraq, or Afghanistan. There is no room for a nuanced conversation, let alone dissent.
The moment one is not gung-ho about flooding tens of billions of dollars of weapons into a war zone and promoting a march on Moscow, they get called an apologist, puppet, foreign agent, or bot-farm troll.
All conversations must be in one direction, and even simply saying diplomacy is an option gets one smeared, attacked, and labeled.
And independent media outlets are having their Paypal accounts frozen for not being properly pro-war. That is such a dangerous precedent. We need to be able to have a real conversation about the situation without being shouted down, canceled, or financially penalized.
We’re flirting with a nuclear holocaust and aren’t allowed to ask the proper questions or have any debate.
Recently, the NY Times finally injected a tiny bit of sanity into the discourse.
The challenge now is to shake off the euphoria, stop the taunting and focus on defining and completing the mission.
Things are not going our way, no matter what delusional arm-chair generals on Medium might be saying. The financial press can see it, and the NY Times can finally admit it. We need to clearly define what our objectives are and how to end this.
Countries are lining up to buy natural resources in rubles, inflation is out of control, and we’re on the verge of global shortages of oil and wheat.
So yes, as George said there was a ‘decision by one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion.’ It’s a war crime.
Bush knows what that’s all about, but now that we’re in this lose-lose situation, we need to find an off-ramp.
“The corporations that profit from permanent war need us to be afraid. Fear stops us from objecting to government spending on a bloated military. Fear means we will not ask unpleasant questions of those in power. Fear permits the government to operate in secret. Fear means we are willing to give up our rights and liberties for promises of security. The imposition of fear ensures that the corporations that wrecked the country cannot be challenged. Fear keeps us penned in like livestock…
Hope has a cost. Hope is not comfortable or easy. Hope requires personal risk. It is not about the right attitude. Hope is not about peace of mind. Hope is action. Hope is doing something. The more futile, the more useless, the more irrelevant and incomprehensible an act of rebellion is, the vaster and more potent hope becomes. Hope never makes sense. Hope is weak, unorganized and absurd. Hope, which is always nonviolent, exposes in its powerlessness, the lies, fraud and coercion employed by the state. Hope knows that an injustice visited on our neighbor is an injustice visited on all of us. Hope posits that people are drawn to the good by the good. This is the secret of hope’s power. Hope demands for others what we demand for ourselves. Hope does not separate us from them. Hope sees in our enemy our own face.” — Chris Hedges