As a veteran of these conflicts, Alex is correct. I hate to admit. I served as a civil affairs nco in Somalia, Afganistan, and Iraq. I supported these wars/Bush. We never made any of these places better for the long term. Our national interest was never threaten. I can remember being in Ramadi, 2004, with a FL ARNG infantry unit, and discussing the worsening situation, NOBODY above brigade level wanted to hear it. It is one reason why I now do not support the war in Ukraine. It is unlikely we will make things better in the long run.
The mRNA vaccines failed immediately, not 6 months later. Dr. Hervé Seligmann knew. Dr. Zev Zelenko knew. Dr. Simone Gold knew. I wrote about it on Twitter, for which they permanently suspended me, still without restoration of account, on February 19, 2021, which was barely two months after the vaccine rollout in the US. I wrote the reasons for the failure of COVID vaccines here:
"On May 1, President George W. Bush had declared “Mission Accomplished,” essentially calling the war over. That overconfident statement turned out to be one of the most disastrous mistakes in modern American history." That's a lie. He was on the USS Abraham Lincoln, the banner behind him was proclaiming that the carrier had accomplished it's deployment mission. And it had! But Bush never said it. Now, admit to your mistake as a reporter.
Alex- thanks so much! Been following you through all covid and it's great to read your piece from your Iraq days. I couldn't agree more. My only comment is I thought you might go further and also point to the similarities with this current Ukraine proxy war. It's so obviously following the same playbook of covid and Iraq: significant deception from our government, manipulation of media, coercion of american populous, callous greed from our industries, rewriting factual history, And insane leadership. All leading to a place of horror, death, destruction, countless lives lost, enormous bad consequences for the world. I just feel like I'm just watching train wreck after train wreck coming from some bizarre and evil playbook.
Just as with the Iraq narrative the same applies with the wuh flu era. Those who were suppose to profit from it all have and did. Pretty simple really and not rocket science. It's just always simply allowed to run it's course because NO ONE is ever held accountable as in actually stopped from continuing the crime and con. Here we are 3 years post wuh flu lab release and still not ONE person remotely held to account. The perfect crime. Have to admire it, if was not so tragic.
Alex, please watch the recent videos from Project Veritas regarding Pfizer.
I, personally, would love to hear your POV on how and whether this "confession" will ever get any traction in the media or DC. As it is, the videos are being ignored, censored or limited, even on twitter 2.0.
No cause to look back, we are engaged in WW3. A small germ upended western culture, just imagine what lay ahead when the food scarcity really kicks in, the bombs start falling, maybe the first nuclear one (matters not where, life as we have known it will change dramatically). Right now we are moving deck chairs on the Titanic.
One of your best pieces on this substack in some time. Very well written and a great connection between 2 seemingly very different events in history. Thank you!
It’s patently clear the power in this country lies within the alliance between the Deep State and the Military-Defense-Pharma-Tech complex, and is accountable to no-one, not even our elected leaders (who ultimately they control through campaign contributions). Literally every “crisis” over the past 30 years (e.g. the Dot Com bust, 9/11, the Iraq War, the Great Recession, Climate Change, the opioid crisis, the Covid pandemic, Ukraine) can be linked to decisions/policies created and implemented by this cabal. In each instance they utilized a perceived “crisis”, created as a result of their disastrous policies, to grab even more power, exert more control over the American people and make more money for themselves. They use the MSM, which has been fully taken over by their paid operatives, to create a narrative to shift responsibility/blame for the crisis they created away from themselves and onto a third party (e.g. Wall Street, bin Laden, Saddam/ISIS, China, the unvaccinated, Putin, etc.). Anyone that even questions their decision-making is perceived to be a threat to their power and is labelled an "extremist" that must be personally and/or professionally destroyed (e.g. Trump). Inevitably their "solution" to the crisis they created makes the situation even worse. It’s the same pattern over and over again. One would hope eventually the voting public would catch-on, but it works each and every time.
Interesting perspective Alex and I'm sure your experience was life altering. What you should have at least mentioned was the role of the New York Times in creating the fiasco in Iraq to begin with. Not to belabor the obvious analogy, in the case of Covid, the NIH was complicit in causing the pandemic in the first place when they chose to fund gain-of-function research in Wuhan, just as the New York Times was complicit in promoting the Iraq invasion through Judith Miller's reporting on weapons of mass destruction. I'm sure you were proud to work there as a young journalist, but the paper had already lost its way. The connection to the current moment should not be lost either. In 2005, Gardiner Harris and Anahad O'Connor (perhaps you knew them) began the attempt to whitewash the connection between the raging (and as of today unceasing) autism epidemic and the dramatic expansion of the CDC's childhood immunization schedule. Some of us who still thought the paper had some integrity tried to protest. I wrote to the Public Editor, Byron Calame, and even had an in person meeting. All to no avail. I trace my own disaffection with American media to Harris and O'Connor's dishonest shilling for the CDC. I'm glad you've been "red-pilled" by the mRNA vaccines, but I hope you might pause for deeper reflection on your previous employer.
Alex. It didn't take 6 months after the rollout of the shots in early December 2020 to know they weren't sterilizing vaccines that would stop the spread as promised. The shots were 'leaky' from the beginning.
On or about May 5, 2021, the NYTimes reported the CDC would stop recording breakthrough cases effective April 30th - since there had been 10,000 breakthrough cases they knew of, which they declared made them too 'rare' to bother about. Who knows what the denominator actually was? 10,000 is a significant number. The only reason to stop recording breakthough cases was so the CDC could claim they were 'rare' and not statistically significant.
I may be wrong about those dates (but I don't think I am) and its worth checking out. This fact has driven me crazy as an unvaccinated person for the last two years. Lying about breakthrough cases early on made it 1) ok to declare we could achieve herd immunity if there was a shot in every arm, 2) to blame the unvaccinated and 3) to mandate the shots. (Lies, damned lies, and the mis-use of statistics.)
The CDC willfully ignored breakthrough cases so they could continue the vax charade and nobody noticed or cared. They just kept on lying and then claimed they didn't know things they actually did know - that is was all evolving so it wasn't their fault.
I think your comparison of this whole covid nightmare with the Iraq nightmare is alarmingly straightforward and it should ring true with a lot of people who were as frustrated then as I am now. In both situations, some people were paying a LOT of attention, reading everything they could get their hands on and questioning the 'narrative' while most people were just listening with one ear and believing whatever was said by MSM and by the authorities and the then President. Eventually what all the liars tell us are 'conspiracy theories' turn out to be truth. Deja vu, all over again.
But the attempt to compare the vaccine policy to Iraq is absurd. The column itself "learns" the wrong lessons in many ways.
De-Baathification was stupid. Not just because it was culturally tone deaf, but because it was part of our biggest mistake - staying too long. Preventing French, German and Russian companies from rebuilding contracts was NOT a mistake. If the Germans and the French would not have resisted the demand to force Hussein to allow inspections everywhere (for the sake of "multi-polar" power in the face of American dominance - nothing else) then we would never have been in Iraq in the first place.
What is similar is that the Iraq policy was the result of Permanent Washington believing their own lies and abusing their power to get what they want - regardless of the interests of American citizens.
Just like vaccine mandates, and just like sending hundreds of billions of dollars to Ukraine. Not to mention all of the recent blunders that inch us closer and closer to WWIII.
As a veteran of these conflicts, Alex is correct. I hate to admit. I served as a civil affairs nco in Somalia, Afganistan, and Iraq. I supported these wars/Bush. We never made any of these places better for the long term. Our national interest was never threaten. I can remember being in Ramadi, 2004, with a FL ARNG infantry unit, and discussing the worsening situation, NOBODY above brigade level wanted to hear it. It is one reason why I now do not support the war in Ukraine. It is unlikely we will make things better in the long run.
Nice analogy to the Iraq war. But I think there's a better analogy: the economic collapse of 2008.
The so-called "vaccines" are TOO BIG TO FAIL.
TOO much money was spent/distributed/wasted.
TOO much political power was seized by the bureaucrats at all levels of government.
TOO much holier-than-thou was embraced by the compliant/gullible segment of society, which allowed them to control ALL society.
The mRNA vaccines failed immediately, not 6 months later. Dr. Hervé Seligmann knew. Dr. Zev Zelenko knew. Dr. Simone Gold knew. I wrote about it on Twitter, for which they permanently suspended me, still without restoration of account, on February 19, 2021, which was barely two months after the vaccine rollout in the US. I wrote the reasons for the failure of COVID vaccines here:
https://www.primarydoctor.org/covidvaccine
The big comparison for me is that I'm a 'domestic terrorist' for opposing both Iraq and jab mandates.
I bought the Iraq lie but thank God I didn't buy the vaccine lie.
"On May 1, President George W. Bush had declared “Mission Accomplished,” essentially calling the war over. That overconfident statement turned out to be one of the most disastrous mistakes in modern American history." That's a lie. He was on the USS Abraham Lincoln, the banner behind him was proclaiming that the carrier had accomplished it's deployment mission. And it had! But Bush never said it. Now, admit to your mistake as a reporter.
Alex- thanks so much! Been following you through all covid and it's great to read your piece from your Iraq days. I couldn't agree more. My only comment is I thought you might go further and also point to the similarities with this current Ukraine proxy war. It's so obviously following the same playbook of covid and Iraq: significant deception from our government, manipulation of media, coercion of american populous, callous greed from our industries, rewriting factual history, And insane leadership. All leading to a place of horror, death, destruction, countless lives lost, enormous bad consequences for the world. I just feel like I'm just watching train wreck after train wreck coming from some bizarre and evil playbook.
Just as with the Iraq narrative the same applies with the wuh flu era. Those who were suppose to profit from it all have and did. Pretty simple really and not rocket science. It's just always simply allowed to run it's course because NO ONE is ever held accountable as in actually stopped from continuing the crime and con. Here we are 3 years post wuh flu lab release and still not ONE person remotely held to account. The perfect crime. Have to admire it, if was not so tragic.
Alex, please watch the recent videos from Project Veritas regarding Pfizer.
I, personally, would love to hear your POV on how and whether this "confession" will ever get any traction in the media or DC. As it is, the videos are being ignored, censored or limited, even on twitter 2.0.
Keep up your excellent work.
No cause to look back, we are engaged in WW3. A small germ upended western culture, just imagine what lay ahead when the food scarcity really kicks in, the bombs start falling, maybe the first nuclear one (matters not where, life as we have known it will change dramatically). Right now we are moving deck chairs on the Titanic.
One of your best pieces on this substack in some time. Very well written and a great connection between 2 seemingly very different events in history. Thank you!
The common link between both scenarios is simple: that which occurs when Luciferian sociopaths are given unlimited resources.
It’s patently clear the power in this country lies within the alliance between the Deep State and the Military-Defense-Pharma-Tech complex, and is accountable to no-one, not even our elected leaders (who ultimately they control through campaign contributions). Literally every “crisis” over the past 30 years (e.g. the Dot Com bust, 9/11, the Iraq War, the Great Recession, Climate Change, the opioid crisis, the Covid pandemic, Ukraine) can be linked to decisions/policies created and implemented by this cabal. In each instance they utilized a perceived “crisis”, created as a result of their disastrous policies, to grab even more power, exert more control over the American people and make more money for themselves. They use the MSM, which has been fully taken over by their paid operatives, to create a narrative to shift responsibility/blame for the crisis they created away from themselves and onto a third party (e.g. Wall Street, bin Laden, Saddam/ISIS, China, the unvaccinated, Putin, etc.). Anyone that even questions their decision-making is perceived to be a threat to their power and is labelled an "extremist" that must be personally and/or professionally destroyed (e.g. Trump). Inevitably their "solution" to the crisis they created makes the situation even worse. It’s the same pattern over and over again. One would hope eventually the voting public would catch-on, but it works each and every time.
Interesting perspective Alex and I'm sure your experience was life altering. What you should have at least mentioned was the role of the New York Times in creating the fiasco in Iraq to begin with. Not to belabor the obvious analogy, in the case of Covid, the NIH was complicit in causing the pandemic in the first place when they chose to fund gain-of-function research in Wuhan, just as the New York Times was complicit in promoting the Iraq invasion through Judith Miller's reporting on weapons of mass destruction. I'm sure you were proud to work there as a young journalist, but the paper had already lost its way. The connection to the current moment should not be lost either. In 2005, Gardiner Harris and Anahad O'Connor (perhaps you knew them) began the attempt to whitewash the connection between the raging (and as of today unceasing) autism epidemic and the dramatic expansion of the CDC's childhood immunization schedule. Some of us who still thought the paper had some integrity tried to protest. I wrote to the Public Editor, Byron Calame, and even had an in person meeting. All to no avail. I trace my own disaffection with American media to Harris and O'Connor's dishonest shilling for the CDC. I'm glad you've been "red-pilled" by the mRNA vaccines, but I hope you might pause for deeper reflection on your previous employer.
Alex. It didn't take 6 months after the rollout of the shots in early December 2020 to know they weren't sterilizing vaccines that would stop the spread as promised. The shots were 'leaky' from the beginning.
On or about May 5, 2021, the NYTimes reported the CDC would stop recording breakthrough cases effective April 30th - since there had been 10,000 breakthrough cases they knew of, which they declared made them too 'rare' to bother about. Who knows what the denominator actually was? 10,000 is a significant number. The only reason to stop recording breakthough cases was so the CDC could claim they were 'rare' and not statistically significant.
I may be wrong about those dates (but I don't think I am) and its worth checking out. This fact has driven me crazy as an unvaccinated person for the last two years. Lying about breakthrough cases early on made it 1) ok to declare we could achieve herd immunity if there was a shot in every arm, 2) to blame the unvaccinated and 3) to mandate the shots. (Lies, damned lies, and the mis-use of statistics.)
The CDC willfully ignored breakthrough cases so they could continue the vax charade and nobody noticed or cared. They just kept on lying and then claimed they didn't know things they actually did know - that is was all evolving so it wasn't their fault.
I think your comparison of this whole covid nightmare with the Iraq nightmare is alarmingly straightforward and it should ring true with a lot of people who were as frustrated then as I am now. In both situations, some people were paying a LOT of attention, reading everything they could get their hands on and questioning the 'narrative' while most people were just listening with one ear and believing whatever was said by MSM and by the authorities and the then President. Eventually what all the liars tell us are 'conspiracy theories' turn out to be truth. Deja vu, all over again.
Thank you for what you are doing.
The vaccines have failed. True.
But the attempt to compare the vaccine policy to Iraq is absurd. The column itself "learns" the wrong lessons in many ways.
De-Baathification was stupid. Not just because it was culturally tone deaf, but because it was part of our biggest mistake - staying too long. Preventing French, German and Russian companies from rebuilding contracts was NOT a mistake. If the Germans and the French would not have resisted the demand to force Hussein to allow inspections everywhere (for the sake of "multi-polar" power in the face of American dominance - nothing else) then we would never have been in Iraq in the first place.
What is similar is that the Iraq policy was the result of Permanent Washington believing their own lies and abusing their power to get what they want - regardless of the interests of American citizens.
Just like vaccine mandates, and just like sending hundreds of billions of dollars to Ukraine. Not to mention all of the recent blunders that inch us closer and closer to WWIII.
THAT is the real comparison to Iraq.