Vance compares today’s Ukraine talk to the “propaganda” used to justify the Iraq war

Speaking on the Senate floor earlier this week, Ohio Republican Sen. JD Vance blasted the Senate’s approval of a $95 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. He compared this narrative to the propaganda used to draw the United States into the Iraq war.

He believes that history is repeating itself. The same incompetence is repeated in dealing with the region.

“I think there’s another historical analogy worth pointing out, and that’s the historical analogy of the early 2000s,” Vance complained.

“Now, in 2003, I was a high school student, and I had a political stance: I believed the propaganda of the George W. Bush administration that we needed to invade Iraq, that this was a war for freedom and democracy, and that those who appeased Saddam Hussein’s men are fueling wider regional conflict.

“Does this sound familiar to what we heard today?” he asked. “Twenty years later, the conversation is still exactly the same, albeit under a different name. But have we learned anything in the past 20 years? No, I don’t think we have.

senator. @JDVance1 Compare the propaganda from the establishment that pushed us into the Iraq War to the propaganda pushing for unlimited funding and escalation in Ukraine today 🔥🔥🔥

“Twenty years later, the conversation is still exactly the same, even though the name is different.” pic.twitter.com/XZuQF62PiN

— Andrew Surabian (@Surabees) April 23, 2024

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Are Ukraine and Iraq war propaganda the same?

Senator Vance said today’s Ukraine propaganda is similar to the propaganda surrounding the Iraq war. We will succeed by beating the drums of war, not by engaging in effective diplomacy.

“We learned that if we kept talking about World War II, we could bully people into ignoring basic moral impulses, leading the country directly into a catastrophic conflict,” he lamented.

Congress said today that we must provide endless military assistance to Ukraine to avoid further war and prevent more death and destruction.

In the early 2000s, they gave us the excuse for “weapons of mass destruction.” We must fight to prevent greater death and destruction. The dispute led to a nearly nine-year war in Iraq that resulted in countless military and civilian deaths.

Likewise, the war in Afghanistan went on for so long that some of the people who fought in it weren’t even born on 9/11.

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The Iraq War also received bipartisan support

Criticism of the Iraq war and previous intelligence failures involving weapons of mass destruction became more common.

In October 2002, bipartisan votes in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate approved the war effort.

The Iraq war resolution passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 296 to 133 and the Senate by a vote of 77 to 23.

But those votes were based on faulty intelligence. Are our actions in Ukraine driven by the same false talking points and messaging?

In 2022, former President George W. Bush accidentally stepped on a rake while trying to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, one of Floyd’s historic blunders.

Former President George W. Bush: “One man decided to launch a completely unjust and brutal invasion of Iraq. I was referring to Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/UMwNMwMnmX

— Sahil Kapoor (@sahilkapur) May 19, 2022

Turning to the topic of democracy, Bush condemned Russia’s “rigged elections” and “political opponents being imprisoned or otherwise excluded from the electoral process.”

Sound familiar?

“As a result,” he said, “Russia lacked checks and balances and one man decided to launch a completely unjust and brutal invasion of Iraq.” Paging Dr. Floyd.

There are currently no checks and balances on U.S. aid to foreign countries. There are no checks and balances on our own border protection.

At the same time, Vance criticized European countries for not taking greater responsibility in providing aid to Ukraine.Maybe Their Propaganda is not as effective as our own.

“For three years, Europeans have told us that Vladimir Putin poses an existential threat to Europe,” the senator said. “For three years they haven’t responded as if it was true.”

Yet the U.S. Congress is continually deceived into providing taxpayer dollars to one of the most corrupt countries in Europe.

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