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Tom Friedman pushed Iraq war as ‘radical liberal revolution’

By Philip Weiss on November 6, 2011

I sometimes forget what happened to our country. But Belén Fernández has a new book out on Tom Friedman called The Imperial Messenger, and she reminds us of Friedman’s achievement, in an interview in the NY Times Examiner:

Friedman sells the Iraq war as “the most radical-liberal revolutionary war the U.S. has ever launched” despite making subsequent assessments such as “The neocon strategy may have been necessary to trigger reform in Iraq and the wider Arab world, but it will not be sufficient unless it is followed up by what I call a ‘geo-green’ strategy.” As I point out in my book, it is difficult to determine how many true “geo-greens” would advocate for the tactical contamination of the earth’s soil with depleted uranium munitions; why not introduce a doctrine of neoconservationism?

Fernández links to Tom Friedman cheerleading the Iraq war in 2003. Wow, I forgot about his stuff! Or thankfully never read it in the first place. The question arises, Did Tom Friedman make any difference with this kind of talk? And I say of course he did, he helped convince the liberal Establishment to go along with this foolish war. Friedman and Ken Pollack and Bill Keller and David Remnick– the pen is mightier than the sword.

[T]he Baathists and Arab dictators are opposing the U.S. in Iraq because — unlike many leftists — they understand exactly what this war is about. … They understand that this is the most radical-liberal revolutionary war the U.S. has ever launched — a war of choice to install some democracy in the heart of the Arab-Muslim world. […]

Many liberals oppose this war because they can’t believe that someone as radically conservative as George W. Bush could be mounting such a radically liberal war.

November 6, 2011 - Posted by | Mainstream Media, Warmongering, Timeless or most popular

3 Comments

  1. FRIEDman forgot to tell the world about how his khazar tribe, since 1743, has been screwing the world for the almighty SHEKEL GRUB, and that every presidential assassination in the U.S. has it’s roots in a Rothschilds CENTRAL BANK or FED enslavement of American’s under DEBT USURY that enriches his Rothschilds khazar pals in London.

    somehow the millions murdered globally for these scum would object to FRIEDman.

    DEMOcrazy had nothing to do with it. It was all about SHEKEL GRUBBING.

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    Comment by SHEKEL GRUBBING IS ALL IT IS | November 6, 2011

    • @SHEKEL GRUBBING IS ALL IT IS:

      You’ve hit the nail right on the head and I commend you for that!

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      Comment by B.Benhamid | November 6, 2011

  2. Who is it he is trying to bullshit?

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    Comment by B.Benhamid | November 6, 2011


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