Pootie Poot

Yep, Pootie Poot was Chimpy ' s nickname for Vlad. Shrub said " I looked the man in the eye. I was able to get a sense of his soul. " So the right wing fascinated adoration for the Pootster goes way back. Anyway, the invasion of Iraq by President Cheney and his stooge GW Bush was arguably as egregious as Putin invading Ukraine, but maybe not quite. They were lying about the Weapons of Mass Destruction ™ but they weren ' t lying about the nature of the Saddam Hussein regime. It was also not dangerous on as large a scale. Saddam didn ' t have a friend in the world. While the invasion and occupation turned out to be catastrophic for the people of Iraq, and the catastrophe eventually metastasized to northern Syria, it never really threatened to go any further.  The current situation is so dangerous that hardly anyone is pointing to U.S. hypocrisy. Maybe that ' s fair enough anyway becausewhile Joe Biden voted to authorize the Iraq war, he later said it was a mistake, although he also claimed, somewhat misleadingly, that he was against the war from the beginning. The linked NYT article tells the story of Biden ' s actions as chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 2002 at length. Essentially was he was saying at the time was that he didn ' t want the war to happen but he didn ' t want to deprive the " president " of the authority.Be that as it may and whatever you may think about it, two wrongs don ' t make a right and it ' s deeply disturbing that a large s...
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