When "freedom fries" come back to bite.

[sheshe2]

"Republican myth-makers like Judith Miller, Newt Gingrich, Michelle Malkin, Ann Coulter, Ben Shapiro, and other ideologues, along with the GOP presidential candidates from Donald Trump to Marco Rubio, couldn't wait for all the victims in Paris to be identified before they unleashed a stream of hateful statements about the Paris attacks that serve their dual objectives of trashing President Obama and calling for their own form of jihad against their perceived enemies around the globe.

They're incapable of seeing that by politically exploiting this most recent atrocity, as they do with every other jihadist attack, to push their authoritarian and militaristic agenda they are exposing themselves as being every bit as nihilistic as the terrorists themselves.

Not long ago, in the run up to George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq, these same right-wing Republicans were screaming epithets at France because the country that today the corporate media remind us is "our oldest ally" tried to stop the war before it began.

The French case was that there was not a WMD threat, and that invading Iraq would lead to fragmentation of the country and trigger more terrorism.


Read More: http://field-negro.blogspot.com/

This is a good read and so true. Fuck you GOP. France was correct.

[Dawson Leery]

1. France is another victim of the Bush Junta.

ISIS would have no home has Saddam been allowed to stay in power.

[elmac]

18. The US should apologize every time a country is attacted

we broke it and never fixed it. Those who perpetrated the bush crimes should be sent to prison for a long, long time.

[napkinz]

2. we think alike sheshe

I just posted a graphic about back in 2003 Republicans attacking the French because they knew Bush was lying about WMD and opposed his illegal invasion. http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027348479

[sheshe2]

9. I just KnRed your OP.

Great minds think alike.

France was right, the rest were wrong. I have every reason to believe that the people of France will get through this with dignity and grace and untold suffering. I also know that they will go to the depth of hell to find the ones responsible and bring them to justice.

Viva la France, we weep for you.

[napkinz]

12. some Americans need to be brought to justice

[Ned_Devine]

16. Did you have to put all 4 of those faces in one picture? I feel sick now

[napkinz]

21. it's a graphic I came across on FB

[villager]

3. Yup.

Good read. Thanks for posting.

[ismnotwasm]

4. EXcellent!

Thank you!

[Chemisse]

5. And nobody has ever said to France:

Sorry. You were right all along.

[sheshe2]

15. Exactly Chemisse.

Thanks for your post.

[a kennedy]

30. Ah yah....tried to mention the whole freedom fries thing at the gym today....and just got stares..

I wanted to press people on it, and they just didn't get what I was even saying......and they weren't young people either. Freedom fries indeed.......I remember these people blabbering about freedom fries back then. Now they conveniently forget.

[Yorktown]

6. France was right on substance, wrong on tone

At the time, I could see invading Iraq was going to boomerang very badly.
I expected a faster religious backlash, but ISIS is along the lines of what I guessed.

But I must also say the grandstanding of Villepin at the UN was farcical
(read the verbatim text, it's like a bad old grandiloquent melodrama)

[AuntPatsy]

7. I echo your last sentence....

[napkinz]

8. K&R!

[Fred Sanders]

10. The massive hypocrisy and two-faced propaganda of the RW and corporste mass media are laid

bare with their now sudden love of "America's oldest ally" because some may recall when it was "America's evil enemy" in the fake run up to the Iraq war.....the French probably care as much about American "support" now as they did when American mass media demonized before.

Uncle Sam can never get around to the idea that everything is not all about him.

[Hekate]

11. KnR

[Thinkingabout]

13. Bush messed up a good relationship with France, Hillary's first order as Secretary of State was to

Rehab our relationships with countries like France which Bush and team was so spiteful to them.

[brer cat]

14. K&R

Good read. Thanks, sheshe.

[Bad Thoughts]

17. No, the French case was let the inspectors do their job

Chirac insisted that the existence of wmd and non-compliance be shown first. Afterward, he was willing to join any effort to disarm Iraq of wmd: he positioned the air craft carrier De Galle to join the US and UK.

[elmac]

19. I could never understand the hate rightwing nuts have for France

France helped us during the revolution, they stood by us during the civil war, gave us the symbol of freedom, the Statue of Liberty. Without France there would be no USA.

[SCantiGOP]

20. Of course France was right

I knew it when Bush was trying to make the case for war. But all of us have to live with his criminally wrong actions.

[young_at_heart]

22. Yes....and the liberal media went along with him

They have blood on their hands too!

[SCantiGOP]

24. My first reaction was that you were overstating

But thinking about it, you're right. They were bullied into it because they were afraid of being labeled unpatriotic.

Remember "you can't criticize the President with troops in the field"? It was pure bullshit, and the right sure dropped that concept as soon as Obama took the oath of office.

[sheshe2]

25. Yes.

Remember "you can't criticize the President with troops in the field"? It was pure bullshit, and the right sure dropped that concept as soon as Obama took the oath of office.

Sadly that never held true with Obama.. Sorry no, both the right and left have always criticized this President when we had/ have troops on the ground. Admittedly is was mostly from the right. Some on the left as well.

[betsuni]

23. K&R!

[napkinz]

26. kick

[CatWoman]

27. back to the top!!

[napkinz]

28. ...

[sheshe2]

29. Yup

We can add it to a very long unending list.

[napkinz]

31. Jindal called it ... they are THE STUPID PARTY

[sheshe2]

32. Thanks for the graphics napkinz.

Sadly they keep on being stupid.

[napkinz]

33. you're welcome sheshe