Former Bush staffers hoovered up liberals’ money to produce ineffective anti-Trump ad campaigns. Colin Powell lied to the United Nations about Iraq having weapons of mass destruction, and he was a star attraction at this year’s Democratic National Convention. ![]() You’ve got Politico reporting on Joe Biden’s historic decision to appoint the first Latino Secretary of Homeland Security, as if the Department of Homeland Security wasn’t created five minutes ago with the express purpose of doing the most horrible shit in the world. So has “enhanced interrogation.” Even stuff that is still happening-the Guantanamo Bay detention camp (still open and operating), the PATRIOT Act (still getting renewed with Democratic support), the Afghanistan War (still, somehow)-are treated both like a vague memory and an inalterable normal. Despite being one of the most significant events of this very strange century, the Iraq War has been thoroughly flushed down the memory hole. It’s not just Bush who’s gotten this strange rehabilitation. But what if I told you that Bush launched a war of aggression on false pretenses? Or that he legalized torture? Or that he created a massive state surveillance operation that illegally spies on a billion people? Or that he oversaw the collapse of the world economy? What if George Bush was not just, as Ellen would have it, a guy with different political beliefs, but an actual war criminal? And he paints watercolors!ĭear reader, I am about to let you know something that may shock you. Sometimes he’ll say something vague about Donald Trump being a bad guy. ![]() His friendship with Michelle Obama is iconic. He goes to football games with Ellen and it makes people believe in America.
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