Duff laments Hussein’s removal

I try to stay away from Veterans Today and Gordon Duff the website’s chief editor. But it’s like trying to look away from an eclipse – you know it’s bad for you, but you can’t look away. Duff took the opportunity this 4th of July weekend, usually a time to celebrate the promise of America, to blame the US for all wars in the last century.

Duff goes on to suggest that if the US should have joined the kaiser in The Great War instead of the allies, that would have prevented all of the wars which followed. I guess he never heard of the Zimmerman Telegram or the sinkng of the Lusitania.

But the best paragraphs are about our more recent wars;

Saddam simply couldn’t believe the United States was so stupid. He kept extremists at bay, kept terrorists out of Iraq, produced oil for the United States and kept it flowing as expected, bought everything we had to sell and paid his bills on time. Can we believe all the terrible things he did? Yes, some of them. Inside his own country, the sheiks with the real power were getting sick of him.

Saddam was sounding more and more like, well, Dick Cheney, a liability even in a dictatorship. In the end, however, whatever bad Saddam had done, paled in comparison with the damage America did, bringing in mobster-bankster rule, starting a civil war, loading Iraq withterrorists, and leaving the country in ruins with well over one million dead and millions more in poverty.

Kind of like saying “Well, at least Hitler kept the trains running on time”. Duff buys into every conspiracy theory about Iraq in the space of a few paragraphs. But he doesn’t stop there. he turns his pop gun on the Afghanistan war;

There would be no reason to draw the United States into Afghanistan, certainly 9/11 had nothing to do with it, there were no terrorists in Afghanistan at that time, unless something else was going on. What was going on that needed the US to be pushed into an area so remote that resupplying troops is almost impossible, an area where running terrorist operations from is equally insane.

I don’t think even the IVAW, which opposes the Afghanistan War, too, is stupid enough to claim there were no terrorists in Afghanistan on 9-11, and no one was running terrorist operations from Afghanistan. But at least we know that IVAW foes have a fan base at Veterans Today.

Category: Antiwar crowd, General Whackos, Usual Suspects