Top current and former US government officials who helped orchestrate the wars on Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, and Yemen, which have killed more than 2 million people combined, have come out and vociferously condemned Russia’s February 24 invasion of Ukraine.
Condoleezza Rice, one of the key architects of the Iraq War, was invited on Fox News to denounce the Russian incursion as a war crime.
Fox News did not once mention Rice’s role in overseeing the illegal 2003 US invasion and subsequent military occupation of Iraq, which led to more than 1 million deaths.
Rice was a top foreign-policy official in the George W. Bush administration, serving as national security advisor in the first term, then secretary of state in the second.
In the lead-up to the Iraq War, Rice falsely claimed that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had “weapons of mass destruction.” She infamously declared on CNN in January 2003, just weeks before the US invasion, that “we don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.”
The level of propaganda on Ukraine is jaw-dropping. Fox News invited on Iraq War architect Condoleezza Rice to condemn Russia's invasion as a war crime
Fox didn't mention Rice's role in overseeing a criminal US war that killed 1 million Iraqis
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In an interview on Fox News this February 27, Rice blasted Russian President Vladimir Putin for his invasion of Ukraine. She praised Western governments for imposing brutal sanctions on Russia, which have already caused severe economic problems and made lives difficult for tens of millions of Russian civilians.
Without a hint of irony, Rice nodded along as Fox News host Harris Faulkner said, “I have argued that when you invade a sovereign nation, that is a war crime.”
“I think we are at just a real basic point there,” Faulkner added, as Rice nodded in agreement.
The Iraq War architect responded, “It is certainly against every principle of international law and international order.”
“And that is why throwing the book at them now, in terms of economic sanctions and punishments, is also a part of it,” Rice added. “And I think the world is there. Certainly NATO is there.”
Fox News did not ask Rice if she thinks that her comments apply to the wars that she herself helped the US government wage.
chris Jordan
2022-03-07 at 11:16
Pulling out all the stops from these people with NO
credibility whatsoever. What about the story about the US supplying arms to Ukraine starting in December 2020 and their reputed germ labs situated in Ukraine too?
the lilac dragonfly
2022-03-11 at 11:44
Do none of the Fox News people get the irony? Wow…. I guess it’s one of those “do as I say, not as I do” situations.
Thomas Schwertscharf
2022-04-15 at 15:22
Equally disturbing as war criminal Condi Rice’s hypocrisy is the idea that our society could produce people who advocate for war and torture. How did our country aid in the creation of Bush Cheney etc. Our country is rotten to the core and even the core is rotten. Prosecute American War Criminals Now!!
someone
2023-07-29 at 11:43
i know, its utterly retarded and hypocritical of them to accuse Russia of the same shit they have done themselves lmao what a joke