ABC's Jon KARL is about bursting into tears

[Kid Berwyn]

6. Karl is Vox Poppy

Iraq War Apologism Is Alive and Well

by BRANKO MARCETIC
Jacobin, March 2023

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Of course, whether the country being attacked has a democratic or dictatorial government doesn’t make a war any less wrong or criminal, given that the costs to innocent people are the same. And the many Iraqis who suffered under the bombardment of US “shock and awe” will be surprised to learn about the supposed virtue of US cruise missiles.

But this attitude isn’t limited to McFaul. Interviewing Democratic primary challenger Marianne Williamson earlier this month, ABC’s Jonathan Karl pushed back on the idea that Iraq could be compared to Ukraine. “But this is entirely different than a war of conquest, isn’t it?” he said. (Given post-war US meddling in Iraqi politics, its long-running and ongoing military occupation of the country against its will, and the profiteering bonanza for US corporations off of Iraqi resources, this may not be as clear-cut a distinction as Karl hopes).

It’s really not complicated. An illegal war is an illegal war and should be clearly condemned. Left-wing antiwar critics have done so repeatedly when it comes to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It’s only US politicians, intellectuals, and establishment media figures who still feel the need to whitewash and even justify Bush’s twenty-year-old war.

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https://jacobin.com/2023/03/iraq-war-apologism-twentieth-anniversary-whitewashing

Weaponized disinformation is called propaganda. Cough. Jonathan Karl. Cough.

And when money trumps peace, UTUSN, it's all about the price of crude oil.