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Sen. Mike Gravel
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Elite Democrats want to keep alive the myth that meaningful bipartisanship is possible, so they use McCain, Flake, and Amash as the examples of the "good Republicans." But you can't seriously criticize Trump without criticizing McCain.
Whatever personal valor he had, McCain was also tied to Paul Manafort: Charlie Black of the infamous Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly Co. served as a senior advisor on McCain's 2008 campaign. And his campaign manager owned a company...with Paul Manafort.
publicintegrity.org/accountability…
McCain supported practically every bad bill of the 1990s and 2000s, from the crime bill to the Patriot Act. He supported the infamous Arizona SB 1070, which encouraged racial profiling. He spread anti-vax conspiracy theories. He originally opposed a national MLK Day!
McCain sponsored bills like the Enemy Belligerent Act of 2010, to allow any terrorist suspect to be indefinitely jailed. @GGreenwald called it "the single most extremist, tyrannical and dangerous bill introduced in the Senate in the last several decades."
motherjones.com/kevin-drum/201…
But McCain's main legacy will be supporting tyrants and death squads abroad: donating money to the Contras, helping to meddle in foreign elections, supporting wars everywhere from Panama to Libya to Iraq to Iran.
McCain was an unabashed war hawk, and had a legacy as bloody as anyone in American politics. To whitewash him in the fight to "save democracy from Trump" and protect our oh-so-valuable "norms and institutions" (which helped McCain kill hundreds of thousands!) is a disgrace.
McCain's image has been sanctified by an old David Foster Wallace article, a nonfactual "maverick" image, and a few cherrypicked memories of his old campaigns. He was a bad guy. If @amyklobuchar wasn't so busy abusing her workers, she could have done research and found that out.
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American foreign policy is not a failure. To comfort themselves, observers often say that our leaders—presidents, advisors, generals—don’t know what they’re doing. They do know. Their agenda just isn’t what we like to imagine it is.
To quote Michael Parenti: “US policy is not filled with contradictions and inconsistencies. It has performed brilliantly and steadily in the service of those who own most of the world and who want to own all of it.”
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Seen a lot of intellectually dishonest cretins leaning back on the trope that @Ilhan was disrespecting American deaths in her comments about 9/11. Nonsense. Let's talk about who disrespects actual American body counts. Actions speak louder than words. Inaction doubly so.
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