War Made Easy: Norman Solomon on How Mainstream Media Helped Pave Way for U.S. Invasion of Iraq

[@charleskesner1302]

Norman Solomon is a champion of truth.

[@veronicaancrum4871]

Well if that statement was true why Would he have Sean Penn as a producer for this project? Look how he’s promoting and supporting the Ukrainian crisis.

[@paulheydarian1281]

Color me unimpressed. Lefty liberals are champions at being ineffectual.

[@federalreservebrown2507]

amy goodman sure is nOT

[@veronicaancrum4871]

@@federalreservebrown2507 Democracy now has lost its way quite some time ago.

[@federalreservebrown2507]

@@veronicaancrum4871 correct 21 September's ago at 5:20 p.m.

[@mz4420]

They are doing the same now with Ukraine and China. Making it seem like helping with military and responding with military are the only options.

[@TheTaoofEternalWar]

Well there is that other option, let Russia and China expand militarily and grow their empires the old fashioned way. You think a bus load of protesters would stop the Russians?

[@HumanBeingsRThinkingBeings]

Mind Begs the Question: If deploying Weapons,Mercenaries In USA backyard(Cuba) - Not Allowed In Russia,China backyard(Ukraine,Taiwan) - Allowed Democracy,Imperialism?

[@jonathanash4280]

Norman Soloman speaks up for those of us who share his views but have no voice in the mainstream media, long may he continue.

[@eddiecheang1513]

Yes, yes! Agreed!

[@katong1953]

The mainstream media uncritically amplified the Bush regime's WMD lie? Democracy Now is too kind. The mainstream media were accomplices in the fraud on the people. The UN weapons inspector (that's your Scott Ritter way back then) said there were no WMD in Iraq. So why should the mainstream media believe the Bush regime, when it had produced zero evidence? Sure, Colin Powell had waved a test tube of white powder and claimed it was some biological WMD. If it were so, he wouldn't have held it in his hands and waved it about in a hall full of people. What if he dropped it and the glass broke? People in the Global South didn't believe the WMD bullshit, so why should the high civilization of the perfumed garden in the west believe the naked lie? No, the mainstream media were not merely uncritical. They were accomplice fraudsters.

[@jrylei]

forget mainstream media, that's why people use tiktok to share views. and that's the true reason government wants to ban it. it's a platform to help people get rid of the media control and pro-military brainwash.

[@HumanBeingsRThinkingBeings]

Mind Begs the Question: Hitler used Media To falsely Demonize Jews To spread Nazi Propaganda More Reliable - Corporate Media,Independent Media?

[@TheFriend2u]

"The banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain." Mark Twain.

[@aa2339]

"I know your race. It is made up of sheep. It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong; but no matter, the crowd follows it. The vast majority of the race, whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind-hearted and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of the aggressive and pitiless minority they don't dare to assert themselves. Think of it! One kind-hearted creature spies upon another, and sees to it that he loyally helps in iniquities which revolt both of them." -Mysterious Stranger

[@aa2339]

"Still, it is true, lamb," said Satan. "Look at you in war-what mutton you are, and how ridiculous!" "In war? How?" "There has never been a just one, never an honorable one-on the part of the instigator of the war. I can see a million years ahead, and this rule will never change in so many as half a dozen instances. The loud little handful-as usual-will shout for the war. The pulpit will-warily and cautiously-object-at first; the great, big, dull bulk of the nation will rub its sleepy eyes and try to make out why there should be a war, and will say, earnestly and indignantly, "It is unjust and dishonorable, and there is no necessity for it." Then the handful will shout louder. A few fair men on the other side will argue and reason against the war with speech and pen, and at first will have a hearing and be applauded; but it will not last long; those others will outshout them, and presently the anti-war audiences will thin out and lose popularity. Before long you will see this curious thing: the speakers stoned from the platform, and free speech strangled by hordes of furious men who in their secret hearts are still at one with those stoned speakers-as earlier-but do not dare to say so. And now the whole nation-pulpit and all-will take up the war-cry, and shout itself hoarse, and mob any honest man who ventures to open his mouth; and presently such mouths will cease to open. Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception." - Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger

[@TheFriend2u]

@@aa2339 Thank you for the very interesting read. Will store it. Sadly seems so on current situation. But hopefully, we hope to prove Mark Twain wrong on this.

[@Ballardian]

Twain was also a member of The Anti US) Imperialist Leaque - something most people have never heard of.

[@georgefurman4371]

And after the destruction the reconstruction is already financed by the same corporate class enslaving financially the nations destroyed.

[@DSGLABEL]

20 years later and nothing has changed.

[@svc2461]

Habits die hard especially when the addiction to war and destruction is so severe. Only an end to the empire will resolve this.

[@ramenben]

there definitely has been changes. those 'americans' in power have new targets, but the rest of the world definitely becoming a lot more aware of their hypocrisy and are starting to realize who the real bad guys are.

[@annmowatt7547]

I think it is actually worse, although I thought that was impossible. I stopped watching TV, all MSM because of this and can't say that I have missed it.

[@teslastellar]

Centuries later and nothing has changed. The same people who genocided tens of millions of natives in America, hijacked tens of millions of Africans and forced them into slavery, dropped nukes on cities and vaporized hundreds of thousands of civilians, bombed Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia ... invaded Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria and destroyed Libya... are now involved in a proxy war with Russia. Who would've thought?!

[@mdjx6838]

No, everything has changed! Russia and China are literally dismantling the US empire as we speak and no amount of US propaganda is gonna change that back to the way it was. They aren't Iraq, their the bigger bully on the block.

[@kimberlymims3792]

Thank you for letting Mr. Solomon objectively present the facts that I lived through myself.

[@orionvassi]

Zelensky's media producers must have studied this old pre Iraq war footage.

[@stolidvessel2550]

It's a shame your U.S. invasion of Iraq video was removed from KZbin yesterday. I had to watch it on your website.

[@tedtan6449]

watch " gen wesley clark iraq" the one by National Geographic

[@jakepistolero]

it's a shame no warrants are issued in that case.

[@ct-hv1uz]

It’s on the Real News Network KZbin channel if you want to give your friends a YT link.

[@stolidvessel2550]

@ct I find that posting links gets me deleted.

[@ct-hv1uz]

@@stolidvessel2550 I don't mean link in public, sorry for not speaking clearly

[@peggydale4638]

It is so great to hear someone speak to the damage WE do to other people around the world. THANK YOU

[@BobJohnson648]

It is painful and I don't want to see it

[@peggydale4638]

@@BobJohnson648 But if you look maybe you could join the voices of others that see & affect positive change. Plus it’s reality & truth. Bless your sensitivity, though … it IS hard to look at. Vietnam was right in our faces every night. We saw the devastation of everything & everybody. It should never be easy to look past the damage of war.

[@BobJohnson648]

@@peggydale4638 problem is that many people were not born yet...Dan Crenshaw for example

[@peggydale4638]

@@BobJohnson648 Maybe a news source SHOULD air the results of war for all to see. However, most fighting is done remotely, so nobody really gets the sense of the damage done. Except those folks whose village or town is flattened & family members killed, of course. This was the first time I'd heard anybody mention what WE have done to others. It's a perspective we should try to understand before we go about killing & destroying, in my opinion. Peace✌🏽

[@BobJohnson648]

@@peggydale4638 embedded journalists are reluctant to stray...

[@Shivayoudestroyme]

Meanwhile Amy cheers on the US military industrial complex and its role in the war in Ukraine

[@andy47456]

She does?

[@alrent2992]

Yes , the hippocracy

[@paulgally1657]

@@andy47456 Have a look at their reporting about Syria! Libya and Ukraine. She is a lying war pig, sellout but sneaky as well because people like yourself have been hoodwinked thinking they are still fair-minded. They didn't even support Assange!!!

[@blackeyedsusan727]

Uh huh. You don't even believe what you're selling!

[@1LaOriental]

"There are worthy victims and there are unworthy victims". Noam Chomsky "Where are the Yemeni, Somali, or Afghani flags?"🇾🇪 🇸🇴🇦🇫 Vijay Prashad

[@jhondoe110]

and dah afro-american flag; where, you idiot."

[@carlislepanting5219]

Belize central america I'm from and i agree totally !! Prayers for the entire world and all other war zones of the world

[@jhondoe110]

@@carlislepanting5219 *agree, ameen!*

[@cryptorenegade1406]

The world needs China who is neutral to play peacemaker like Saudi Arabia & Iran to have any hope for the preservation of humanity

[@winkus8586]

All the sudden..... The Islamist terrorist disappeared after the US decided to take on russia and china.. Where do they go??

[@artvandelay8030]

Haliburton, Blackwater, Cheney, Bush, Rumsfeld, Powell, crime's against humanity and war profiteering. Not to mention mass murder. And American tax payer picked up the tab. Still paying. Ain't that great. Real American, right?

[@mariahewitt9787]

Meanwhile, Julian Assange is in Belmarsh prison, for disclosing the TRUTH, while the criminals are walking free. Free Julian Assange!!!!

[@steventatlock5443]

Enriching the white gentry at the cost of the poor and colored; Pretty much the totality of American history.

[@jvs333]

You omitted the biggest one: Victoria nuland

[@artvandelay8030]

@@jvs333 ..to include advisor Victoria Nuland. Big time war advocate. 😊😉

[@RadiantStar8997]

War profits America.

[@roshanmohamed623]

This is the crimes that George Bush and Tony Blair , these men should brought to justice for killing millions in Iraq Afghanistan Pakistan Libya Palestine and in the whole middle

[@johnwattdotca]

Don't forget Grenada, an island with 70 soldiers who didn't have rifles, attacked by England and the U.S.

[@Ballardian]

Instead, Tony Blair is the richest ex-prime minister in British history and was recently given a knighthood, while Bush is sitting in his mansion doing his shitty little paintings The hypocrisy is extraordinary.

[@driftershu]

where is the ICC?

[@Ballardian]

@@johnwattdotca Or the Chagos Islands, where the native population was forcibly removed by the British to make way for a US military base. Our governments are scum.

[@rdsc.455]

​​@@driftershu International CRIMINALS Cort...... IMPARTIAL,,,,,,, EQUALITY,,,,,, FAIRNESS ,,,,,,,,,,,, Isonomial ARE THE PILLARS & STRICTLY, RELIGIOUSLY FOLLOWED.

[@TDH_1962]

And they are doing the same thing today with the war in Ukraine.

[@mikefatah]

So… let’s look at what is happening right this minute with our governments lying their faces off.

[@ejtierney6607]

ARE YOU GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE PROXY WAR AGAINST RUSSIA THAT IS GOING ON RIGHT NOW?

[@fredwelf8650]

If so many Americans are anti-war, it would be interesting to hear about why Americans vote for incumbents and candidates who increase the Defense budget every single year, and about what exactly that budget produces in terms of materials, that is, the accounting for the Defense budget.

[@stenyethanmathews945]

Because most Americans are manipulated and brainwasy

[@kaka2nd62]

1) do not care because it does not affect them 2) lots and lots profit from wars 3) many believe government propaganda

[@Arnsteel634]

Because Americans don’t know what is happening. We are an ignorant populations that just want our welfare check and drugs.

[@ganboonmeng5370]

So many anti war american are not in the elite club...they are screwed...whoever they vote for..it will be the same.. The politician don't run america foreign policy..or anything...the elite club of money man...run them !

[@GeistInTheMachine]

Need to reform the voting system so the two parties stop their bullshit.

[@cdrbvgewvplxsghjuytunurqwfgxvc]

You are either with us or the russians. Sounds familiar yes 😅 The madness now is that it is the same in every western country fighting in the proxy war.

[@joshuap9580]

um you're either with the ukrainians or the russians. who are you with?

[@v.mateirotaru9059]

​@@joshuap9580 I am with no support for NATO manipulation and US Agenda. It's that simple.

[@edeancozzens3833]

America fuelled by Big Media caused the disaster in Ukraine.

[@rdsc.455]

​@@joshuap9580 So no one here is with innocent civilians,men, women, children, old who are bearing the brunt of this conflict i.e. war v/s proxy war since a decade,,,, or say 7-8 decades ?! A cycle of CORRUPTION through which hard working middle class i.e. 90% of the population paid tax money circulates and goes into the pockets of big fat half percent.

[@bozo5632]

​@@joshuap9580 Well, if you put it that way... Slava Rossiya!

[@anotherbrickinthewall1169]

Sounds familiar to the current situation 🤔

[@larrybills5840]

Rinse and repeat. If it ain’t broke, why fix it? History repeats itself. Need I go on?

[@BigFatHeretic]

@@larrybills5840 HISTORY RHYMES!!!

[@philipangelo595]

Sure does!!

[@notarmchairhistorian7779]

Its not exactly the same. The war in ukraine is bad but because of America's own hypocritical history, it is the very reason many outside the self-righteous west are apathetic or even supportive of the Russian war.

[@wolfbirk8295]

But now China, Russia, India and others are looking for another world without sanctions, coups, lies, hypocracy and wars.... Can they do so....?

[@dteiro]

Agree with this 💯

[@shanenelson3825]

We only protest if it's a Republican. Our Squad members just voted for 100s of billions for endless countless war's. We all voted for Joe. Who's to blame?

[@bozo5632]

There are far more anti-war Republicans than Democrats. Don't argue with me - count them yourself.

[@blackeyedsusan727]

TF are you on, bigot?!

[@pimpnsam1]

You’re correct! The irony of citizens of the most destructive and imperialist force on the planet calling the kettle black. And Amy goodman parroting the state department talking points against Russia. When I stopped listening, she still was anyway. And she starred the White helmets propaganda against Syria, I remember she had no problem running with the propaganda against Libya.

[@jakepistolero]

the funny thing is that the same tricks are working again on the american ppl

[@philipangelo595]

Same playbook pulled out every time and it works every time.

[@fightignorance3598]

Where was ICC then to prosecute these crimes?

[@mcthorwmalows]

Us is not member of icc..only members in icc they can prosecute..china and russia also is not member and north korea.

[@ciara5867]

Brilliant documentary.👏👏♥️🇮🇪🍀🇵🇸🕊

[@bpalpha]

War is the art of deceit.

[@epants8507]

Every American should watch this, especially the ones cheering for further escalation against Putin.

[@joshuap9580]

completely different situation, that is obvious. should be every russian should watch this, they are the ones tracing our own footsteps.

[@pablolozano8595]

against an autocrat dictator like putin you mean

[@pablolozano8595]

how about putin de escalating the war and just backing off and leave Ukraine

[@ozzyphil74]

There was apparently the outlines of a peace plan in place within a month of the war that Boris Johnson and the US asked the Ukrainians to back off of. The outlines of that agreement was along the lines of Minsk 2 plus neutrality for Ukraine as far as NATO goes. Why was it rejected in my opinion, because the war offered a chance for the US's real strategic goals... To degrade Russia at least militarily and best of all, using Ukrainian lives. Russia isn't going to back off because they are taking a step they warned about and were ignored for twenty years. The US manufactured consent for Iraq in barely a year

[@epants8507]

​@@pablolozano8595 How about educating yourself on the atrocities that happed to Russians within Eastern Ukraine and why the Minsk agreements were signed. It is not Putin that is refusing peace negotiations it is the West and the UK. Putin met with China and they put together a 12 point peace plan which the West refused.

[@guymerritt4860]

I wish I could find the clip from MSNBC, featuring Chris Matthews sitting in front of an enormous monitor showing Baghdad in flames.....being bombed mercilessly. That was the night the war started and Matthews was virtually ebullient....breathless. I'll never forget him gushing that it was "almost like watching The Super Bowl!!!". This was as innocents were dying. That clip is nowhere to be found, but, I will remember his words in the same way I remember Clifford Best telling me in the sixth grade that JFK had been shot....as I'd been out of the room when the principal came in our room to make the announcement. "Almost like the Super Bowl" because neither he nor his family was dying, I guess. I'm sure that clip will never see the light day....but I will remember his words forever.

[@dannyboy8850]

Let me remind your audience that an estimate of over 2 million lives have been lost as a result of the Iraq invasion. 😭😭😭😭

[@BobJohnson648]

An attack on Islam as is the loss of 200k Ukrainian soldiers is an attack on Christianity.

[@gudboyngdisyerto]

and everytime soldiers came back from iraq, they were greeted "thank you for your service"

[@icemike1]

They never talk about that

[@alrent2992]

​@@gudboyngdisyerto because the u.s. People are Sheep!! 😂😂

[@theoneandonly7782]

I am sure I read just recently a University study, Yale?, so it must be true, that the Iraqi dead are around 300,000. EDIT: It's a Brown U. Study, they say around 300,000 dead but likely into the hundreds of thousands dead directly or indirectly as a result of the War.

[@lavendereucalyptus3225]

And I get to be called ‘Putin Troll’ or ‘CCP troll’ all the time when I pointed out the lies by US government and media. It just shows you how successful US government and media manufactured consent.

[@CondorSkyGhost]

Yep, your own friends are hypnotized by the bs.

[@jeannietrudell7237]

But people are shamed for questioning the mainstream narrative. I wish people would quit calling people who do conspiracy theorists. I value independent journalism, you won't hear these things on MSNBC.

[@kathleen7825]

Thank You Amy And DN 🙏🌎🌍🌏🇺🇲🦅💙

[@amypowell6495]

He could add a lot more chapters from the last 20 years.

[@thuddreau5444]

Amy Powell Check out " War is a Racket " by U S Marine Major General Smedley Butler

[@amypowell6495]

@@thuddreau5444 I know it well!

[@thuddreau5444]

@@amypowell6495 Thanks Amy for your comments and your humanity and awareness

[@queenredspecial]

Ukraine.

[@cryptorenegade1406]

Quote "war is when young people who don't know each other, who don't hate each other, kill each other, by the decisions of old people who know each other, who hate each other, but do not kill each other and at the end shake hands .......The Tragedy of war

[@gunnarthomasen7291]

BRICS Country shout make a joint military alliance, that would contrapart NATO’s aggressive behavior. That will be great for peace.

[@rka-truthalwayswins5127]

Indeed!! BUT China invaded TIBET & many of it's neighbors including India!! China still hasn't settled the border issues & occupies Indian lands known as Aksai Chin in Kashmir since the 1960's!!

[@iibdhd8287]

Why are those people NOT been charged with WAR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY?????

[@chorlee3832]

We are hearing that now in Ukraine.

[@danhumphrey5755]

How can anyone look at the current reality and the past 20+ years without seeing the direct link between the events of 9/11 and the Military Industrial Complex.

[@bpalpha]

Verily! Inside job. False flag. Skull & Bones.

[@johnwattdotca]

Have you heard of "American Architects and Engineers for Truth", a California based organization, who have proved it wasn't the airplanes that brought down three high-rises the same way the same day? They will send you a small newspaper with their evidence, and they probably have more to see now. The third high-rise was purchased months before 9/11 by a friend of President W. Bush, for $400 million. He was able to buy the first "terrorism insurance" in the United States, getting 7 billion after it fell. Bush sent the steel wreckage to China as scrap when it was investigative evidence.

[@icemike1]

No way before since inception you people just predisposed to war killing

[@Madasin_Paine]

When it comes to what did and did not happen on Sept 11, the likes of Goodman, DN!, Chomsky, Nation Mag, Hedges will stick to The Company - D🌐D -W$J for not only Sept 11 wholly inadequate conspiracy theory, as they usually echo that stale tripe on JFK & © V 19, too... Facts are immaterial. PPP Party Loyalty is ∆££ or Nothing. Have nothing. Do nothing. Be nothing. Feel~Free™! Or else! 🌐√🏴‍☠️

[@mattchew5965]

I watch all the other news stations to see the range of special interests at work. I watch Democracy Now to see the more truthful news and better world that we all deserve.

[@jodylynn840]

They are doing it now too!

[@sayahsow8753]

The ICC is ignoring those war criminals.

[@pedromzileni4925]

Powerful. Thank you

[@lckee820]

Past history of how USA acted is relevant.

[@dianadickerson749]

They lied about fatalities in Vietnam, tried to cover up the same killing now bringing such out rage cause it's Russia. They did the same in WWII.

[@gerhardkarel4209]

Absolutely not. Usa must be held accountable for its multiple crimes all over the world.

[@domingotolipas7733]

A sad moment for the IRAQUI PEOPLE year 2003 two decades ago☹☹😥😥👏👏

[@angelodiazrodriguez5186]

I find these evil people sickening....I lost friends because of them...[...]

[@paulheydarian1281]

Find like-minded folks and do something about it, together.

[@angelodiazrodriguez5186]

Criminals on both sides of the Atlantic...total evil!!!

[@wileycoyotegenius1]

Why don’t Amy point out that is the same thing the media and democracy now is doing in Ukraine

[@DownMichael]

At the time I was yelling at the TV with CNN not allowing any guests to share that the rest of the world was telling the U.S. they were wrong and stop where they were headed.

[@Stop-and-listen]

The PNAC is an essential reading to understand American war politics. The Wolfowitz doctrine of eternal wars.

[@johnwattdotca]

"Politics is the entertainment division of the military-industrial complex". Frank Zappa, early 1970s.

[@Stop-and-listen]

@@johnwattdotca Indeed. It is a circus for the masses. Remember, most Americans today have no culture of education; they only have entertainment, violent unabated Hollywood entertainment.

[@philipangelo595]

The Neoconservatives are psychopaths.

[@dogstar8871]

neocons are everyone's worst enemy

[@king_onion5]

This is extremely interesting I wish this shoe was viewed by more Americans

[@deeknuth7364]

DISGUSTING LIES.OVER AND OVER AGAIN WORLDWIDE!

[@williamfarmer3841]

Don't forget the Obama administration and the current Biden administration.

[@johnwattdotca]

Don't forget any American president beginning with WW2, except for Past President Jimmy Carter. He didn't start a new attack on a foreign country for their wealth and oil.

[@pablolozano8595]

neither Obama nor Biden lied us into wars

[@michaeljoseph3528]

Nothing has changed.

[@cyrilsimoes8328]

Follow the Oil and the money.

[@think2146]

Run like hell backwards when one asks you to trust them

[@abdulghani8269]

Danke Amy,WE love you

[@sigmasix3719]

This is just a recap of what AmeriCIA is doing right now in Ukraine and Taiwan next.

[@steventan2550]

How much did the US contribute to the rebuilding of Iraq, let lone apologizing to Iraq and the whole world?

[@queenredspecial]

Interesting to see this on DN. I was a HUGE supporter of yours for 25 years, especially during the war in Iraq. Such dark days. But now, given the last year -- it seems DN has joined in the mainstream media in manufacturing consent for this latest war. It's so depressing.

[@johnwattdotca]

It must be your depression that shadows your opinion, because you're wrong about Democracy Now.

[@TDH_1962]

Well said

[@uschischueller4643]

May finally finding its way back to being progressive and gutsy

[@eyetell]

It's sad, but so, so true. I stopped donating. But they get money else where.

[@queenredspecial]

@@uschischueller4643 doubtful, but I hope.

[@lancedao1273]

No.more freaking WAR!!!

[@deeone5326]

World Peace! Silence of the Lambs is real.

[@v.mateirotaru9059]

Nicely said 👍

[@icemike1]

The people reporting the news are making the news

[@jimrule8652]

We silence Julian Assange we put Julian in jail to cover our war crimes

[@karen-qm7og]

Thank you for having this guest on. This is such a necessary perspective.

[@Madasin_Paine]

Yet NO connection to the illegality and immorality parallels to "war" in the Persian Gulf & Mid East Nor. Africa and Ukraine. The mendacity and omissions are off the charts on this channel, Demagoguery Now!

[@larsandrune]

Great host 👍definitely going to buy his books. Hope documentary gets to Netflix, Amazon or HBO but I somehow doubt it.

[@johnwattdotca]

I would suggest reading "The Medium is The Message', by Professor Marshall McCluhan. He invented the term "global village" and describes the effects of media and computers on society.

[@jamesnewsom5899]

Forget 20 years ago. The same thing is happening right in front of us. Democracy now it’s just a joke.

[@BobJohnson648]

Goodbye Phil....hello Joe and Mika

[@gstolarov]

You would think the parallel to current situation with Russia being painted black is obvious…

[@MrSumone]

Oh wow. Sounds eerily familiar to the current conflict we've weaseled ourselves into

[@joshuap9580]

how? we've picked the right side for once.

[@v.mateirotaru9059]

​@@joshuap9580 you didn't pick a side, the US prompted this war, but as with what they say here people are easily manipulated, we're going to have another video like this about the porpaganda today 20 years from now, and if the US is still standing someone will tell someone else again "they did the same 20 years ago".

[@RemyIssa]

Vietnam and Iraq this generation biggest shame

[@jonirischx8925]

You mean like how you're paving it right now regarding China, Amy?

[@wwbren]

We are coming full circle back to the same place, but the US does not have the world's backing anymore.

[@codzymajor]

DN will produce a version of this episode to remember the Russia/Ukraine military operation 10 years later. We will congratulate AG for her wonderful reporting as usual 😊 In real time, all we get is the same drum beat. Truth will have to wait.

[@raynierllewis2827]

Exactly they all comment about it after the fact

[@philipangelo595]

They use the same playbook every time and it works every time. Unleash the tribal instincts and the population is on board with every war.

[@queenredspecial]

100%

[@joshuap9580]

what will be said in 10 years? that the west cowered again in the face of russia as it rebuilt its empire and subjected millions more to authoritarian rule? or that we stood up for what we say we believe in?

[@FullAttach]

WTF? You are comparing the two?

[@martinwhalley3286]

....From Africa. The change in 43s voice belies his assertions.

[@paulasmith754]

media helped a lot

[@Watcher6868]

All these liars must be put in jail or at a minimum must perform community service in Iraq (during the summertime)

[@hermenutic]

The same kind of response and promotion of war was witnessed during WW1

[@jono2233]

Then & now. :-/

[@v.mateirotaru9059]

Same right now before WWIII

[@abdikariimawil6220]

Iraqi was't lost a lives only but large number if American soldiers lost their life by organized lies made by state leaders , unfortunately many families lost their loved people both sides,but those whose lies still a living along the victim families, with luxury houses and comfortably . Its not fair , and justice .

[@unknownkingdom]

And they're doing it right now with Ukrane

[@EveningDew001]

The same what is going on in Ukraine and Russia.

[@jimmychin9666]

It's all about the natural resources of Iraq, not about WMDs or Sadam Hussain, but nobody has the balls to admit it.

[@margot7350]

Thanks for great story

[@izbavitelj1464]

So, what have we learn from this?

[@embervine]

Powell: "trust me, just trust me"

[@bladez-if4vw]

When will the people of the USA start voting for politicians who do not need diapers?

[@paulheydarian1281]

Which American people? Many American people willingly put on face diapers for three years and volunteered to get vaccinated with highly questionable vaccines.

[@iskaykabeya609]

US presidents don't run America, there are just playing the role. Jesuits of Rome run the US puppet government for Pope

[@williamlee7782]

I do wonder whether the ppl of the USA can vote with common sense. I think many ppl lost their critical thinking skills. It appears ppl are so divided that some will never vote Republican as a Democrat and it doesn't matter what candidate is chosen for that party. Even after the two years of Biden and seeing the blunders, mental issues, rise of inflation, vast homelessness, all time high addictive drug usage, record number of illegal immigration from Mexican border and these people will still vote for him for another 4 years in 2024. This administration prefers to pander to the woke initiative and Black Lives Matter. Like, wow. Even Kamala Harris is a laughing stock to people abroad yet I think many Americans can't see it. What has she or the first lady done for this country? The USA is a declining power. It's imploding culturally within and indicators suggest, economically.

[@pablolozano8595]

we already did back in 2020 and we won!!!

[@bladez-if4vw]

@@pablolozano8595 You mean to say, you can give me a list of politicians from the US, who can actually bring peace to Europe without soiling themselves?

[@Priest_of_Hiroshima]

I can’t believe how many people these people killed just to get rich

[@33MOUSSA]

If Saddam really had WMD then the coward US would not have Invaded. Hint-North Korea

[@BobJohnson648]

I think Americans are waking up to the retired generals routine...I hope

[@BobJohnson648]

Norman the man, except he doesn't get 911

[@denisalvarado9991]

The question is, is this happening again with the Ukrainian war? And why isn't anyone including Democracy Now, asking this question.

[@wldo5210]

Empathy in war could be construed as accountability which in turn can lead to possible liability. Prayers to all for healing and peace.

[@sylviewalker7560]

Now is not time for war.

[@michaelascheffler4229]

Danke!

[@jhondoe110]

"*the revolution will not be televised*.". Gil Scott Heron.

[@veronicaancrum4871]

Russia has every right to defend itself against American and NATO aggression.

[@queenredspecial]

100% true.

[@juanrodriguez5404]

But not invading sovereign countries!!!

[@queenredspecial]

@@juanrodriguez5404 Ukraine hasn't been a "sovereign country" since at least 2014.

[@michaelpatton2712]

If NATO countries had fired the first round of artillery, middle strikes, or of fighter bomber and tank column attacks from Belarus in the North, or from the Russian Federation from the East and Southern occupied Ukraine in the CRIMEA, I might have agreed with your flawed analogy. I, too, think that this horrible, bloody war was totally unnecessary and also totally avoidable from all sides, since the Ukraine is fighting a existential battle to secure it's very survival, but Russia is fighting to subdue and conquer its former blood relative Slavic nation that it allegedly fears has been somehow converted to a Nazi state that aims at destroying their Russian cousins! Too bad the pro-Putin tribe in the USA and in the third world do not clearly see that Putin has had political and economic megalomaniacall dreams of expanding his huge super sized country, the largest on earth, to recover the lost empire and glory of the long deceased Russian Soviet Socialist Union that existed from 1922 until 1991, and exerted similar expansionist wars against Poland in 1920 and again in 1939 as Hitler's Ribbentrop-Molotov Treaty Ally, against Finland in 1940, and later against Eastern Germany in 1953, Hungary in 1956, Czechoslovakia in 1968, and against Afghanistan in the 1980s, against Georgia in 2006, and against the anti-Assad Rebels in Syria from 2020s on to the present! Sounds like a peaceful neighbor in all these aggressive actions, doesn't it? No doubt the USA has also been rather aggressive in its expansionist era of empire from the "settling of the West" after conquering the Indians and relegating them to territories East of the Mississippi in 1830, with Andrew Jackson's "Indian Removal Ethnic Cleansing by force of the U.S. Military, and the "Manifest Destiny Mexican - American War" that brought in California, Texas, and 48% of Mexico's territory into the American Union! The Great American Civil War, 1862 - 1865, slowed down and almost ended that expansion, except the purchase of Alaska from Russia in1867, until the Spanish-American War brought us more colonies and territories - the Philippines, Cuba, Puerto-Rico in 1898, followed by the forced annexation of Hawaii in the late 19th Century, as the imperial American Power was crowned by Teddy Roosevelt's promoting Panama's Independence and, as a crucial benefit to our Coast to Coast American Continental power the building of the Panama Canal that was under total American control until relatively recent times!

[@queenredspecial]

@@michaelpatton2712 Russia tried to avoid this war in every possible way. Now we know the West had no intention to, as per Angela Merkel's two admissions re: Minsk.

[@ThePuterMan]

The time has come to put America back in its box.

[@forky3525]

I want to see the episode "How Democracy Now paved the way for the Ukrainian Proxy War". That would be more relevant.

[@Lost_Johnny]

Exactly

[@alexisxiros8168]

Excellent.👍

[@Aye84848]

Repeating again 6:02 in Ukraine

[@esp4yu]

One can lie yesterday, tomorrow we will remember the distortions, because many human lives were lost, due to your decisions and actions

[@TennesseeJed]

Too bad it takes twenty years to get to the bottom of things. WASF

[@raynierllewis2827]

Most people are getting fooled All of the time

[@TennesseeJed]

@@raynierllewis2827 Yes, I can't tell if my propaganda is misinformation or my disinformation is hyperbole most of the time.

[@nosondre]

This is a great A-hole compilation!