10 years ago today, WikiLeaks published the "collateral murder" video of a US massacre in Iraq. 10 years later, Assange is in prison facing extradition. All those responsible for the crimes of American imperialism remain free. #WikiLeaks #FreeAssange
Joe Biden doesn't note that anniversary. Nor do his supporters. He has a lot of stupid supporters. Take the guy Tweeting under "Hillary Was Robbed," Burk MC who insists:
This primary shocked me in many ways. Tulski and Pete are almost the same age. They’re both deployed to Iraq. + Pete’s a polyglot, mayor, Rhodes scholar. But no one said Tulski wasn’t qualified, all they said was it was Pete that wasn’t qualified. It never made sense. Homophobia?
If you don't like the facts, just make them up? Is that how it works, little liar? I'm not a Tulsi fan. But she did serve in combat. Pete didn't. Nor did Pete serve in Iraq. It was Afghanistan, you stupid idiot. He also had problems with his smugness. And I don't remember the media saying Tulsi was "qualified." I do remember them attacking her throughout or ignoring her. It's a really a shame that we witness the same events but someone has to lie about what went down or even lie about the fact that Pete served in Iraq when he did not. Liar, liar pants on fire.
Burk MC insists "Never Bernie" and "Don't fall for misinformation." But all Burk does is preach misinformation -- he's a natural born liar.
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That's our little liar, know him, run from him, he's full of lies and very, very stupid.
And he needs to learn to shape his eyebrows better if he's going to Tweeze. The above are better than the March 19th version -- but what wouldn't be. He might try trimming them to give the appearance that he didn't pluck too many hairs out above the right eye. Get the plucking right quick because your hairline is receding and soon those eyebrows will be the most prominent hair on your head. Anyway . . .
Pete served in Iraq? I can't stop laughing at him. Or his Twitter obsession with Hillary Clinton. Self-loathers -- if you can't laugh at them, what can you do?
In the real world, the Iraq War continues -- brought to you by Biden, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry and Bully Boy Bush. THE DAYTONA BEACH NEWS-JOURNAL reports:
In operations related to Iraq, a total of 4,600 members of the U.S. military and Department of Defense civilians have died. Another 32,512 U.S. service personnel and DOD civilians have been wounded in action.
Here is the latest identification reported by the military this week:
• Sgt. 1st Class John David Randolph Hilty, 44, from Bowie, Maryland, died March 30 in Erbil, Iraq, of a non-combat related incident in support of Operation Inherent Resolve. The incident is under investigation.
Will US troops ever be pulled out of Iraq? Maybe half of them. Lawk Ghafuri (RUDAW) reports:
Half of the US-led coalition troops in Iraq will have left the country by the end of 2020, Iraq’s premier-designate Adnan al-Zurfi has said, while a timetable for the departure of the other half will agreed upon by early 2021.
Zurfi made the remarks in his first televised interview as PM-designate, conducted by state media outlet al-Iraqiya on Sunday night.
“I talked to US ambassador and coalition officials in Iraq about a schedule for coalition troop withdrawal from Iraq,” he said. “Half of the US-led coalition troops will withdraw from Iraq by end of 2020, while the other half will leave Iraq after we agree on a schedule by the beginning of next year.”
Adnan al-Zurfi is not yet the prime minister. He's attempting to curry favor with an economic plan and that may or may not help put his candidacy over the top. Khaled Yacoub Oweis (THE NATIONAL) notes:
Iraq’s prime minister designate Adnan Al Zurfi has positioned himself as the man to bring about economic salvation for the country and address the financial woes that have been exacerbated by the coronavirus outbreak.
Mr Al Zurfi submitted his manifesto to the legislature on the weekend, warning that the government may no longer be able to pay its seven million employees. “Iraq is going through a catastrophy,” Mr Al Zurfi warned.
His manifesto focuses on improving the economy and the health system to counter the impact of the coronavirus.
Adnan isn't prime minister yet. Joe Biden? He's not even the Democratic Party's nominee so far. And he has to answer for so much -- not just the Iraq War. Da'Shaun Harrison (WEAR YOUR VOICE) offers:
Just days ago, Joe Biden’s former senate aide, Tara Reade, gave a very detailed account of the time the former vice president sexually assaulted her in 1993. This is not the first time she has made this accusation. In fact, she and seven other women all came forward nearly a year ago to tell their stories of the times Biden inappropriately touched them or otherwise nonconsensually invaded their space.
Just days after Reade released this information through an interview on Katie Halper’s podcast, a Twitter user took to a post about Joe Biden and wrote: “For the sake of argument, say Biden is a rapist. Trump is also a rapist. So why not vote for the rapist with the better policies?” And after coming to realize that this was, in fact, a real tweet, I then had to try to make sense of something so asinine.
For starters, Biden’s policies and political history are horrendous. Aside from the crime bill he penned in 1994—which many, myself included, have written about—Biden has very harmful stances on other issues that, when interrogated closely, do not differ much at all from Trump’s. From Social Security and Medicare, to his push for war in Iraq, to his insistence on waging a war on Black communities across america during his time as chair of the Judiciary Committee. From his collaboration with the healthcare industry in its war against Medicare-for-all, to his continued role in voting and speaking against abortion and other reproductive justice issues, to his more-than-shaky stance on immigration and deportation. There are a host of issues with Biden’s policies and political history that, aside from his modern lip service, put him in much closer proximity to Trump than the proclaimed values of Democrats.
What’s worse, though, is that even if Biden never had this terrible history, it never seemed to occur to the user who wrote that tweet that there is a second Democratic candidate they could vote for who is not a rapist. And that is what makes her statement so much worse than it already is.
I have made many critiques of Bernie Sanders, even since the previous election cycle. I think he has a less-than-stellar foreign policy, especially as it relates to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land; he generally has a fairly basic understanding of prison abolition that would leave several million people locked in cages; and for two election seasons now, he has led a campaign that heavily emphasis class struggle and economic justice, but does little to link that to systemic racism and anti-Blackness—something that has been a documented reason for why he lacks support from progressive Black voters.
Aside from my critiques of Sanders and his campaign, I have been very verbal about my opposition to engaging electoral politics on the federal level. Still, I recognize not only that Sanders has the better politic between Biden, Trump, and himself, but also that the primaries are not complete and therefore the election is not yet between two rapists. This means that if progressive voters have any values or sincere commitments to choosing the politician with “the better policies,” the most obvious choice is Sanders and it is he who they should be rallying behind.
The corporate media has buried this story. They have avoided covering it. The fact that the American people are witnessing this gross hypocrisy doesn't cause the corporate media to rethink their silence. Clint Cooper (TIMES FREE PRESS) notes how quickly the press rushed to cover accusations against Brett Kavanaugh versues their silence on Tara Reade:
Biden is only running for president of the United States, but compare the networks' response with that of the accusation against Judge Brett Kavanaugh when he was nominated to the Supreme Court in 2018. In the 12 days following the report by a woman who said Kavanaugh assaulted her at a high school party — a charge that none of the five witnesses the woman named would confirm — ABC, CBS and NBC — offered a combined 305 minutes of coverage.
As of late late week, in the time since the accusation of Biden was made, three of the broadcast and cable news networks interviewed Biden — including a one-hour town hall — and the question was never asked.
No, Reade, the accuser has not become a Republican and is trying to boost Trump. Indeed, she says she was deeply conflicted about coming forward but wanted the truth to come out.
But the left-leaning networks are unwilling to offer that chance.
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