3. Saying that Cheney is right about Trumpian authoritarianism and using her as a wedge to divide GOP does not entail supporting anything else Cheney believes. To suggest otherwise like the numbskull argument that being a vegetarian means supporting Hitler.
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4. It's especially rich for Glenn fucking Greenwald to accuse Sanders of rehabilitating Bush-Cheney since by his own admission when Iraq war launched Greenwald believed "American security really would be enhanced by the invasion of this sovereign country."
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5. I deleted an earlier tweet that relied on a mistaken memory but the bottom line is that Bernie Sanders has a spotless record opposing Bush/Cheney militarism. Glenn Greenwald does not. More on opposing Cheney while affirming her rightness here:https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/liz-cheney-and-the-never-trump-fantasy?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=twitter …
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Replying to @HeerJeet
Jeet, what did Greenwald ever say or do publicly to promote Bush/Cheney militarism? What is the "spot" on his public record? (before he wrote books opposing said militarism)
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Privately supporting war crimes -- the killing of hundreds of thousands as well as torture -- is also bad.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
You're dodging the question. Your thread is about "muddying the waters" and yet, by innuendo, you conflated public advocacy with a private citizen's thoughts to himself. And now you're insinuating
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Replying to @ThatPennerShow @ggreenwald
He supported Bush's foreign policy when tortures were going on.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @ggreenwald
You're muddying the waters again. Accepting a pre-invasion rationale does not equate to supporting a torture regime that became public afterward. Get your timeline straight; this isn't Tenet. https://www.bookbrowse.com/excerpts/index.cfm/book_number/1812/page_number/3/how-would-a-patriot-act#excerpt …pic.twitter.com/1x3OK7rbk0
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Given the history of American militarism, torture was a certainty. Gitmo was already in place when Greenwald supported the war. That's why some of us were anti-war from day one.
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It's a bit of a reach to suggest every private citizen who agreed with the Iraq invasion should be labelled a "torture supporter." There were plenty of actual torture justifiers. Conflating them with people horrified by the Torture Memos is muddying the waters.
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Citizens have a responsibility to know the cost of wars before they support them. Being a private citizen doesn't exempt you from moral responsibility.
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