Liberal Roadkill Along the High Road to Baghdad

[Tace]

Joe Bageant -- World News Trust

May 24, 2004

Somewhere in hell tonight, the Devil’s wife is setting out an extra dinner plate for America, where presumably we will be toasted by history’s other war criminals.

Let’s face it. When we backed a maniac killer like Saddam Hussein, funded the Taliban, and slept with the treacherous Saudi Princes as the price of our national narcotic -- oil -- we’d pretty much bought a place at the dinner table.

But when we embraced that murderous old sack of guts, Ariel Sharon, as international brother and accomplice in all things Middle Eastern, we were not merely displaying sick taste in friends; we acceded to becoming war criminals.

The entire world sees that and has seen it for years.

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https://worldnewstrust.com/staring-down-the-jackals-joe-bageant

[riverbendviewgal]

1. I loved his books and writings

He was funny and wise. He was very smart. He wrote this 20 years ago and in he died in 2011, too young. I wonder what he would write about Donald Trump.

[DinahMoeHum]

2. Trump, hell. What about JD Vance??

Yeah, I miss Joe Bageant, too.

[riverbendviewgal]

3. Joe Bageant

I think would say JD Vance is pretender who sold out.

[orthoclad]

4. Rec