The propaganda about Iraq having
weapons of mass destruction was one of the most blatant examples of
“fake news” in American history.
Now, many of the same idiots who
pushed the Iraq war lies are stirring up hysteria about Russia.
For example, the Washington Post’s
editorial page editor Fred Hiatt cheerleaded for the Iraq war. Now,
the Washington Post under Hiatt’s leadership has been the main
source of the most breathless anti-Russian hysteria.
ABC News political analyst Matthew
Dowd – chief strategist for the Bush-Cheney ’04 presidential
campaign – was a big booster for the Iraq war. Now, Dowd Tweets
that you’re only a patriot if you blindly accept what President
Obama and the intelligence services claim without any proof.
George W. Bush’s speechwriter
David Frum – who pushed many of the biggest lies about the Iraq war
– is now trying to ridicule anyone who doesn’t accept the
evidence-less claims that Russia hacked the Democratic party as a
Kremlin stooge.
Similarly, Jonathan Chait
championed the Iraq war. And now he’s ridiculing those asking for
evidence before jumping headlong into anti-Russia hysteria.
These guys all have a track record
of pushing false stories which get us into disastrous wars … why
should we listen to them now?
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