It's funny that I keep going back to hundreds of thousands of people dead, and you refuse entirely to confront even the concept.
You keep dropping back to words like "ill", "policy", "politics", to sanitize the killings of hundreds of thousands of people - and I'd add over a million Iraqis injured, half a million seriously, and over a million families rendered homeless.
Calling the completely unjustified killing of hundreds of thousands of people "foreign policy" is a whitewash.
Being completely against mass murder is not "bias".
I lived for thirty years in New York City. I was there on 9/11. I knew someone who died in the World Trade Center. I am "biased" against Al Qaeda as a result.
This is perfectly rational and emotionally normal.
My own personal feelings aside, the Iraq War was over a hundred times as destructive as 9/11 - in a country a tenth the size as the United States.
Bin Laden's horrible, terrible personal crime on my city and my friends - the horror that was 9/11 was a complete nothingburger compared to the horrors that the United States visited on the tiny country of Iraq for over a decade.
Even if it had been properly planned, it would have been a monstrous crime. But the planning for the war was so unbelievably poor that disaster was completely and utterly certain. To have no plans at all except, "The enemy will capitulate immediately," is total madness.
Senior Democratic "leaders" bragged about having seen this "planning". They are just as culpable as the Republicans.
Anyone involved with the organization, planning or approval of this complete, total and blatantly obvious fuckup should never be allowed to have any position of responsibility again.
(Remember Captain Coward? That Italian guy who crashed a cruise ship and then fled? He and his crew only killed dozens of people, and yet none of them will ever work in a ship again. At least he admitted his guilt!)
And, yes, the capped was there was never any apology! No admission of guilt ever happened. Somehow hundreds of thousands of people were killed and no one learned any lessons, no one did anything wrong.
Colin Powell, who had stood in front of the United Nations and spouted a pack of lies to the entire world, had the unmitigated gall to say, "I deeply regret that the information – some of the information, not all of it – was wrong,"
Gosh, Colin, so sorry Great and Might You were Wrong! Only a little wrong - "some of the information".
What about the people of Iraq? Got a word to spare for your victims?
Apparently not, and apparently not the DNC either, when they had him speak.
It's morally disgusting.
The fact that no one suffered the slightest consequences, and there you are lecturing me because I have the temerity to remember this Biden guy rah-rah-rahing for a literal genocide, shows the moral bankruptcy of America - that it's thought to be rude even to bring up your leaders' willing and enthusiastic participation in war crimes.
I am proud to be "biased" against government criminality and crimes against humanity. This is one of the many reasons I am living here, now, and not there - because being completely against US war crimes and calling for consequences for the organisers is a perfectly reasonable stance here and not some fringe position that gets lectures policing your tone from randos on the Internet.
