There are many ugly parallels in history to this blame-game approach. Adolf Hitler exploited mythology about Jews and other "disloyal" Germans betraying the nation during World War I as part of his propaganda to establish Nazi political supremacy in the 1930s.
Now, the neocons are trying to build on their own myth of a war "won" but then "betrayed" as justification for ousting Obama from office in 2012 and restoring neocon domination of American foreign policy under a President Mitt Romney or a President Rick Perry.
To do this, the neocons must count on the sloppy thinking of the mainstream news media, getting U.S. journalists to "recall" the wonders of the "successful surge," the conventional wisdom that was happily embraced in 2008 although it never was true. [For more on the "surge" myth, see Consortiumnews.com's "Two Dangerous Bush-Cheney Myths."]
The other wild card for the neocons' "who lost Iraq?" propaganda theme is the revitalized American Left, finally merging the twin issues of wasteful military spending and financial policies benefiting the richest one percent.
If the Left can get past its historic trait of seeing the glass as always half empty rather than sometimes half full, it might recognize -- as David Swanson suggests -- that some progress is finally being made.
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