Clinton signed into law the "Iraq Liberation Act of 1998", which was used as the legal cover by George Bush to invade Iraq in 2003. By 1995 Clinton's economic strangulation of Iraq killed 500,000 Iraqi children. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said it was "worth it", since it furthered U.S. foreign policy. So they killed a million more from cholera, typhoid, and starvation.
[Madeleine Albright - The deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children was worth it for Iraq's non-existent WMD's]
Clinton's shredding of the social contract was no surprise to the Liberal Class. It was one of Clinton's 1992 campaign promises to "restructure the social safety net". Clinton promised to "end welfare as we know it", and he did. [7]
Clinton made it tougher for the poor to qualify for benefits, he set lifetime limits, and punted the responsibility for social programs to the states, without giving them the adequate federal block grants to fund it. The Liberal Class did not object because a Democrat did it.
In 2000 George W. Bush started his criminal presidential enterprise by stealing the needed Florida electoral votes from Al Gore. The U.S. Supreme Court declared that recounting the infamous "hanging chads" violated the U.S. Constitution. Gore could have petitioned the Florida Supreme Court for a total recount of the state, but the Liberal Class advised him not to. It said that a recount would cause a tremendous uproar, make liberals look like spoilsports, and harm our democracy. So Gore conceded the purloined presidency to George W. Bush. [8]
After the attacks on the US of September 11, 2001, the Liberal Class voted in a joint resolution to give Bush the Authorization for the Use of Military Force. Democrat Barbara Jean Lee was the single vote against it. [9] Bush's War on Terror was on. Bush used the authorization to invade Afghanistan. The last big anti-war hurrah for the Liberal Class was in February 2003 against the planned invasion of Iraq. The Liberal Class's new enthusiasm for antiwar protests was short-lived.
As the oligarch class and their servants pulled one illegal outrage after another the Liberal Class barely made a whimper. Assassinations, torture, kidnappings, indefinite detention, illegal covert operations, domestic spying, persecuting whistleblowers, and shredding the Bill of Rights were overlooked and even abetted by Democrats. The Liberal Class begged for authoritarianism to keep the country safe from terrorists; the Constitution be damned!
Today George Bush is being rehabilitated as a great president who just made a few mistakes. The Liberal Class forgot that Bush is a war criminal, committed crimes against humanity, and tightened the fascist grip on the U.S.A. Bush killed and destroyed millions of lives, and what was left of U.S. democracy.
Ellen DeGeneres says we should be kind to war criminals even if we disagree with them. The Liberal Class agreed and said that is what America is all about.
[Ellen DeGeneres, Be kind to everyone, even war criminals!]
The Liberal Class thought that the messiah had finally arrived when Barack Hussein Obama was elected president. The Liberal Class believed Obama's lies and hoped his promises of change were true. Unbeknownst, Obama had already sold out to Wall Street, the health-insurance industry, and Big Pharma. Obama went on to leveraged Bush's authoritarianism to beat down the middle class and poor. He did nothing for Blacks.
Obama went from bombing three countries to bombing seven. He made Bush's tax-cuts for the oligarchs permanent. He continued the programs of assassination, extraordinary-renditions, secret prisons, secret terrorist mercenaries, secret wars and regime-change projects.
Obama turned the New Cold War into a hotter war with Russia and China. He overthrew elected governments in Ukraine, Egypt, and Honduras. He pivoted to Asia. He destroyed the welfare state in Libya. Even Obama could not keep a straight face when he declared Venezuela a threat to the U.S. national security.
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