Bush-Era War Criminals Are Louder Than Ever
August 24, 2021
They’re narrative managing, writes Caitlin Johnstone, because history will remember them as wrong.
By Caitlin Johnstone
CaitlinJohnstone.com
After the U.S. troop withdrawal established conclusively that the Afghan “government” with which they’d spent 20 years pretending to nation build was essentially a work of fiction — thus proving to the world that they’ve been lying to us this entire time about the facts on the ground in Afghanistan — you might expect those who helped pave the way for that disastrous occupation to be very quiet at this point in history.
But, far from being silent and slithering under a rock to wait for the sweet embrace of death, these creatures have instead been loudly and shamelessly outspoken.
The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change has posted a lengthy essay by the former prime minister who led the United Kingdom into two of the most unconscionable military interventions in living memory. Blair criticizes the withdrawal as having been done out of “obedience to an imbecilic political slogan about ending ‘the forever wars’,” bloviating about “Radical Islam,” and asking, “has the West lost its strategic will?”
It’s essentially a 2,750-word temper tantrum, authored by the same man who fed the British people this load after 9/11:
“The starving, the wretched, the dispossessed, the ignorant, those living in want and squalor from the deserts of Northern Africa to the slums of Gaza, to the mountain ranges of Afghanistan: they too are our cause.
This is a moment to seize. The Kaleidoscope has been shaken. The pieces are in flux. Soon they will settle again. Before they do, let us re-order this world around us.”
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This is also why George W. Bush has released his own statement through his own institution. It’s also why Bush-era neocons like Paul Wolfowitz and John Bolton are doing media tours condemning the withdrawal, and why Bill Kristol, whose neoconservative influence played a key role in the Bush administration’s military expansionism, is now promoting the arming of proxy forces against the Taliban.
They’re narrative managing.
More:
https://consortiumnews.com/2021/08/24/bush-era-war-criminals-are-louder-than-ever/
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I guess he's gotten himself camera ready again to go out and catapult the propaganda...
Is journalistic malpractice. 
But of course 
