It goes without saying that current president Donald Trump is a vulgar super propagator of lies and conspiracy theories. Openly admitting that he lost the election and Joe Biden becomes the new American president is still not in it. His sky-high ego is still too deeply offended.
Barely a few days after the official election results, former president and republican George W. Bush congratulated Joe Biden on his victory. Bush jr. even praised Biden as a 'good man' who can lead and unite the US. The election was free and fair, Bush also shushed.
Because of this statement, George W. Bush suddenly seemed an honest and decent politician. More human than howler monkey Trump. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Obsessed by the brutal lie of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq Bush began his 'crusade' and then his 'War on Terror', an indiscriminate and ruthless war in Iraq that to this day feeds global terrorism. His invasions in Afghanistan (2001) and Iraq (2003) were given completely untruthful slogans such as 'Operation Enduring Freedom' and 'Operation Iraqi Freedom'. I fear that in today's Afghanistan and Iraq there is little freedom to be gained after the imperialist raid of almost twenty years ago.
Trump lies, cheats and threatens with gusto. He may already have fought verbal battles with the North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un and the Iranian Ali Khamenei. However, a real war based on a pertinent lie The Donald has not unleashed. In that sense, the peace summit in Singapore between him and Kim Jong-un was actually a fake, pathetic spectacle.
I'm better off without the authoritarian Trump , but presenting Bush as a respectable American former president is more than a bridge too far. With Bush, they never talked about impeachment, although that would have been properly justified. Bush never had to answer for the extreme lies and war crimes committed on the basis of false and falsified information. 'Make America Great Again' is already a far-reaching lie, but 'War on Terror' goes even further in madness.
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