Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Fox News "Invasion Expert" is Trump-Appointed Putin Propagandist" video.

  1. This guy MacGregor goes back much further. He was the guy who gave Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz the plan for invading Iraq that ended in disaster. Its all detailed in a 2004 PBS Frontline called "Rumsfeld's War" I started a thread with a brief summary.
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  2. This guy MacGregor goes back much further. He was the guy who gave Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz the plan for invading Iraq that ended in disaster. Its all detailed in a 2004 PBS Frontline called "Rumsfeld's War" I started a thread with a brief summary.
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  3. As an Australian I totally agree. We knew what he was like and tried to warn the Brits when he went there and we tried to warn America when he went there. NONE OF YOU LISTENED. Our best hope is that either the Brits or the Yanks do us a favor and give him a southside send off. Southside send off? Its Chicago slang for being vanished. I went to college in America
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  4. It goes back much further. He was the guy who gave Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz the plan for invading Iraq that ended in disaster. Its all detailed in a 2004 PBS Frontline called "Rumsfeld's War" I started a thread with a brief summary.
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  5.  @alexwarner6111  As an Australian I can tell you we all thought Rupert had 5 years left 15years ago and wished he had 5 years left 97 years ago. Go and check his response during the phone tap scandal when after yet another "I wasn't aware of that" answer one of the MPs quipped that maybe he then shouldn't be running a major public company any longer. Rupert snapped back and for the briefest of moments the world got to see behind his mask. All I remember is the ferocity he said "NO" with. He might be old but DO NOT think for a blink he's not terrifyingly dangerous. As for Lachlan we might just have to deal with him sooner that he'd like.
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  6.  @ColaSpandex  If you think that any new law passed anywhere in the Western World is going to threaten Rupert Murdoch then you don't understand Rupert Murdoch. He is a pure narcissistic sociopath. He has no empathy and cares for nothing but what he wants. We all know he can't be reasoned with and that the general well being and future of society is meaningless to him. He's far from alone in that. Go and look at Charles Koch, he's just as bad. We tried warning Britain what he was like went he went there and NOBODY listened. We tried warning America what he was like went he went there and NOBODY listened.
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  7. It goes back much further. He was the guy who gave Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz the plan for invading Iraq that ended in disaster. Its all detailed in a 2004 PBS Frontline called "Rumsfeld's War" I started a thread with a brief summary.
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  8. TO ALL: David and Rolling stone don't actually go as far back in this MacGregor's history as they should. If you go and watch a PBS Frontline called "Rumsfeld's War" which was about how they got the Invasion of Iraq wrong. Long before Iraq in the aftermath of Vietnam the US military took a "Never Again" approach to everything. Which begs the question then how did they get Iraq so wrong? That's what PBS looked into. As they prepared for Iraq Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and others wanted it to be like Desert Storm 2.0 with extras. They wanted to get in crush and then remodel the country. That was the problem the military don't remodel they smash stuff. So the military looked at the problem and saw that the issue WASN'T defeating the Iraqi Army it was securing the country. That required lots of manpower and that didn't work with Rumsfeld or Wolfowitz. In stepped MacGregor and he gave them a battle plan they liked. Smaller force, get in, be decisive then start the nation rebuilding in America's neocon image. It was all going to be easy according to him. Just like the Russians thought a couple of weeks ago. YES EVERYONE - This is the guy who wrote the battle plan for the invasion of Iraq. This is the guy who's plan lead to 170,000 civilian deaths, 1,000s of American deaths, 1,000s more of disabled veterans and other issues. Oh and it cost the American tax payer a couple of trillion dollars. Outside of the American right wing propaganda machine this guy is one of the biggest failures in recent military history. He's a joke nobody takes seriously. If the Invasion of Ukraine is failing (from the Russian side) then its because they too have a similar battle plan to what America had in Iraq. Listen to what he said about being fast and aggressive - that's exactly what he said 20 years ago that didn't work. You can find and watch (and I urge you all do) the PBS Frontline: "Rumsfeld's War" here on YT but its not on the PBS channel its by another YouTuber.
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  9.  @ColaSpandex  No one should expect a conviction of any of the top 1%. Right now in the world its an absurd concept to think any of them will even be charged let alone convicted of anything. I've heard clowns howling about Vladimir Putin's crimes and how he has to be held accountable. Yeah which laws? Would those be the same laws that America and its allies broke when they invaded Iraq? Who was held accountable over that. That invasion was followed the prisoner abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib and Bagram AFB. Yeah a few low level soldiers were charged but none of the officers and non of the politicians who pushed it. Do you know the Lawyer John Yoo who wrote the infamous torture memo that kicked it all off is now a tenured Law Professor. After the 2008 GFC the American DOJ prosecuted over 3,000 cases BUT NOT one of them was a CEO or Senior Manager. Since then the world has had the Panama Papers, Paradise Papers and Pandora Papers released detailing the industrialized tax evasion of the worlds elite. So far (as far as I know) not a single person anywhere in the world has been charged of anything. We now know the Sackler family made billions as they doped up millions and got 1,000s and 1,000s dead and NONE of them have been charged with squat. Since the Reagan years (when he started suppressing it) the American DOJ has not prosecuted a single major anti-trust case. That's allowed the tech monopolies of Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc. Its also allowed the commercial monopolies like Walmart and others. Anti-trust was meant to protect society from (among other things) the existence of "too big to fail. I just saw a talk by Mark Blyth about Asset manager Capitalism. Between them Vanguard, Blackrock and State Street now own over 20% of the entire S&P 500. That means they have people on every board in the S&P 500. What makes anyone think that anyone in the top 1% gets served justice for what they do? We are headed into some extraordinary times right now. There are so many pressures on the entire human race - economics, war, food and the one the top 1% hate climate. What's going to happen when something finally snaps and the obvious things become unignorable.
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