Discredited Neocon Talking Points From The Iraq War Are Back, Lazily Re-Purposed For Iran

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Discredited Neocon Talking Points From The Iraq War Are Back, Lazily Re-Purposed For Iran

By: John Daniel Davidson
June 18, 2025

All the same regime-change rhetoric used to sell the Iraq war in 2003 is now being used to push us into the Israel-Iran war.

Remember all the infamous one-liners from the Global War on Terror? In the years after 9/11, when the neocon establishment in Washington was pushing ahead with its disastrous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, they were everywhere.

It’s a slam dunk case! We have to fight them over there so we don’t have to fight them over here. We’ll be greeted as liberators. Islam is a religion of peace. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists. God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

Those last two are direct quotes from President George W. Bush, the man most responsible — whether through extreme naiveté or extreme duplicity — for propagating these ridiculous slogans and using them to justify decades-long wars that ended in ignominy for the United States. You’d think that after Iraq and Afghanistan this kind of rhetoric would be totally discredited. But you’d be wrong.

Over the past few days, almost since the moment Israel began bombing Iran, we’ve seen the reappearance of almost all the old GWOT rhetoric. Then as now, the purpose is to justify a U.S. military adventure abroad and gaslight the American people into supporting regime change in Iran.

For those of us who were in high school and college during and immediately after 9/11, who saw the propaganda play out in real time, it’s an amazing thing to witness what’s happening now.

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So, the Ayatollah's bother-in-law met with Osama bin Laden's 5th cousin, twice removed, in Prague, to discuss the acquistion of yellow-cake uranium from Niger?

We just want to blow-up a small piece of Iran.  We do not want a neo-con invasion, occupation, and liberation of Iran to make it safe democracy in a war that will pay for itself.  America has a terrible record at regime change.  We should leave that to the professionals, the British.

The Iranian regime feels it needs nukes to defend itself from neo-con regime change, like what happened in Iraq, and later Libya.

Iraq did not have nukes - got invaded, Saddan deposed.
Kadafi gave up his nukes - got deposed.
Ukraine gave away their nukes - got invaded.
North Korea developed nukes - no regime change and not invaded, so far.

The big lesson for rogue nations from the Bush '43 admin was on-hand nukes are insurance against neo-con regime change.