#NeverTrump National Review Licked ‘the Mud Off of George W. Bush’s Boots’ While He Allowed Iraq’s Christians to Be Ethnically Cleansed

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This is true. The Bush doctrine failed because Bush fundamentally misunderestimated the jihadic motive. And still does. National Review stood strong with him then, even as the ancient Christian population of Iraq was decimated. The neocons were in favor of the Iraq war, and even as it has been shown to have been a failure in so many ways, none have issued any apologies. They’re all still dug in. And when Trump became a Presidential candidate, National Review came out against him more strongly than they’ve ever come out against anyone. Trump has stood up for the persecuted Christians of the Middle East, and tried, against immense opposition, to give them preferential refugee status. And National Review couldn’t have stood against him more fiercely.

This speaks to the corruption of the RINO establishment. The 2016 election showed that there is one big party in Washington, and the Democrats and Republicans are both in it. Ryan, McConnell, McCain, Graham, etc. And then there is the freedom party: the Trump supporters.

“John Zmirak: #NeverTrump National Review Licked ‘the Mud Off of George W. Bush’s Boots’ While He Allowed Iraq’s Christians to Be Ethnically Cleansed,” by Robert Kraychik, Breitbart, December 30, 2017:

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National Review “let themselves be turned into the propaganda wing of the neo-conservative movement” during the George W. Bush administration, while ignoring the ethnic cleansing of Iraq’s Christian communities under Bush’s watch, said John Zmirak, Senior Editor of The Stream and author of the new Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism.

Zmirak made his comments during an interview with Breitbart Senior Editor-at-Large Rebecca Mansour Friday on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight.

National Review, said Zmirak, refused to countenance debate over the wisdom of invading Iraq during the Bush administration’s lead-up to the Iraq War, further refusing to publish criticisms of Bush’s prosecution of the Iraq War. He contrasted National Review’s editorial opposition to debate over the Iraq War with that of David Horowitz’s Frontpage Mag, which published competing views – both supportive and opposed – toward the Iraq War.

“I was sort of a budding conservative columnist [in 2002 and 2003],” he explained. “I wrote every week for David Horowitz, who is a wonderful guy, and a solid real conservative. He favored the Iraq War, I opposed it, but he let me write articles on Frontpage Mag critical of the Iraq War because he believed there was a legitimate debate about the wisdom of invading Iraq given that we didn’t really have a good succession plan; a good plan for what would happen afterwards.”

But Horowitz’s attitude was not shared by the writers at National Review.

National Review did not believe there was a legitimate debate [about the invasion of Iraq],” explained Zmirak. “They actually ran an article, a cover story by David Frum — who people might not remember used to be a conservative, or present himself as one — called “Unpatriotic Conservatives,” which denounced and explicitly read out of the conservative movement as anti-American and unpatriotic most of the leading writers who were critical of the Iraq War.”

Zmirak said he “lost a lot of respect” for some of the writers at National Review during the Bush years.

“I’m not going to list names because some of them have gone on to do good things,” said Zmirak. “But I lost respect for a lot of people because people who made good arguments against what Bill Clinton did in Yugoslavia … flipped when George Bush tried to do the same thing in Iraq.”

Zmirak framed Saddam Hussein as a lesser of several evils with respect to competing forces – namely Islamists – vying for control of Iraq. Toppling Hussein, he added, facilitated subsequent persecution and ethnic cleaning – including mass rape, sex-trafficking, and murder campaigns – of Christians by Islamist groups such as ISIS.

“Saddam Hussein was a sponsor of terror against Israel, he was a brutal dictator, but he was a secular ruler,” Zmirak explained. “The ancient Christian communities of Iraq … were safe under him. Part of his bolstering of his secular reputation was protecting those communities.”

“The Bush administration showed absolutely zero concern for the Christian communities of Iraq,” said Zmirak. “And we’re not talking five or six hundred people; 1.3 million Christians lived in Iraq when the Iraq War started, and they have lived there for two thousand years. They were some of the earliest Christian communities in the world. Way before there were Catholics in Rome, or before Constantinople existed, there were Christians in Iraq.”

“Seventy-five to eighty percent of [Iraq’s Christian communities] were ethnically cleansed while George Bush was president, while he was commander-in-chief, while he ruled that country as absolutely as Kim Jong-un rules North Korea. He didn’t care,” Zmirak stated.

Zmirak mocked conservatives who expressed outrage over Donald Trump’s “vulgar” comments on the Access Hollywood tape, but were silent during the Bush years while ancient Christian communities were ethnically cleansed.

“When people tell me, ‘How can you support Donald Trump? He said vulgar things on Access Hollywood.’ I say, how can you support the Bush family, which has never apologized for just sitting on their thumbs with a stupid grin on their faces while a million Christians were driven into the desert, were killed, were ethnically cleansed; they didn’t even get to go to refugee camps because the Muslims control the refugee camps. They’re living in unheated shipping containers to this day,” said Zmirak.

“Never Trump” Republicans — including many National Review pundits — who focus on Donald Trump’s Access Hollywood tape comments, but did not criticize Bush’s failure to protect the Christians in Iraq are without political credibility, said Zmirak.

“Any Republican who is horribly upset about Donald Trump’s tweets, I want to know where they were and what they were saying while the Bush administration let a million Christians be sent into the jaws of hell,” he said.

“What I can’t stand is people who were licking the mud off of George W. Bush’s boots [and] who treat Donald Trump with contempt, when in fact Donald Trump’s foreign policy has been more conservative, more pro-America, more prudent, and more intelligent on every level than the bumbling, self-righteous, intellectually lazy, callous idiocy of the Bush administration,” Zmirak said.

“Anybody who was involved with the Bush administration who has not apologized for that and learned from it ought to be kept as far away from our government, as possible,” he concluded.

Mansour concurred with Zmirak’s assessment of National Review’s sycophantic approach to the Bush administration. “The reason I lost respect for that once venerable magazine is because week after week after week throughout the Bush administration, they kept assuring us, ‘Don’t worry! Everything is wonderful! He’s got it all figured out! It’s gonna be great!’ They never held this guy to account. Never,” said Mansour

Zmirak compared what he described as National Review’s reflexive support for Bush’s management of the Iraq War with Chip Diller (played by Kevin Bacon) in the 1978 comedy film Animal House, insisting “all is well” amidst chaos.

Zmirak and Mansour noted the left-wing core of neo-conservative figures such as David Frum and Max Boot. Partial transcript below:

ZMIRAK: I think we need to continue to see this globalist, neo-conservative, utopian ideological view of the world that we see embodied in Max Boot and David Frum, and other people who’ve…

MANSOUR: They’ve all gone back to the left, by the way. They’re going back to their roots.

ZMIRAK: That’s right. They present as conservatives when it seems convenient, and now they’re admitting, “Yeah, we were leftists, all along. We just wanted to invade Iran. We just wanted to occupy Iraq. We just basically want war.”

MANSOUR: “We just want to invade another country.” They always want to send the Deplorables’ sons and daughters to fight another war. It’s just ridiculous.

ZMIRAK: They’re still 18-year-olds sitting in their Yale dorm rooms playing Risk, but instead of little plastic pieces, they’re American soldiers.

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Suresh
Suresh
6 years ago

Bush was not much different than Dems treatment of christian refugees.

America’s First Muslim President , Obama also pulled a Taqiya for many years justifying bringing in “refugees” . what Dems and corrupt media would not tell you that 98% of these “refugees” were muslims !

And christians , yazidis who were the real refugees were denied !

Dems including Obama have not only denied refugees status to christians from middle east who are real refugee but even have deported christians back to ISIS territory to be slaughtered by ISIS http://tinyurl.com/mtc3xch

Not one MSM media covered it !

Ziggy46
Ziggy46
6 years ago
Reply to  Suresh

Well said, Suresh; Happy New Year.

Suresh
Suresh
6 years ago
Reply to  Ziggy46

wish you Happy New year ! Keep fighting back and exposing the truth.

Daniel FX Dravot
Daniel FX Dravot
6 years ago
Reply to  Suresh

Careful there. 2,000 years ago a Roman official simply asked “What is truth?” and we still haven’t heard the end of it.

And a Happy New Year to you and yours.

Ziggy46
Ziggy46
6 years ago
Reply to  Suresh

Indeed, Suresh, it is a never-ending battle. Take care.

dad1927
dad1927
6 years ago
Reply to  Suresh

we should find obola and send the muslims to live beside him

poetcomic1
poetcomic1
6 years ago

It is worth remembering that far more Christians were uprooted from Iraq than Arabs were from Israel in 1948.

Nefarious420D
Nefarious420
6 years ago
Reply to  poetcomic1

uprooted by muslim aggression against the fledgling Jewish state.

Michelle
Michelle
6 years ago
Reply to  poetcomic1

Yes but in the eyes of the left Christians deserve it due to the supposedly countless crimes of white men. I always laugh when I type that as in Africa the Africans are enslaving their own kind once again without need of the white man just like they have done for the last 6 millennia and probably well before that. Why did the whites become involved in black slavery? A fluke due to the current that goes from west Africa to Brazil and makes the journey faster and easier and slaves were cheaper than ballast as they mostly sailed there empty with ballast only.

aebe
aebe
6 years ago
Reply to  Michelle

Slaves from England and Ireland did not do well with raising sugarcane and cotton , they tended to die of diseases and no tolerance of the weather .

dad1927
dad1927
6 years ago
Reply to  Michelle

When they (diversity is codeword for) genocide the whites out, society will crash back to the 6th century. Like Zimbabwe, only whites are fit to run businesses, cities, states, and countries. Like the black mayors of Detroit, etc
The hated white keeps them down from looting stores, and burning cars. When their numbers are sufficient they will topple the evil whites and crash their own welfare.. Sweden will go first

dad1927
dad1927
6 years ago
Reply to  poetcomic1

How many Jews left in the middle east?

Nefarious420D
Nefarious420
6 years ago

Bush misunderstood nothing, he was more than happy to sell us out to our “allies” that Kingdom of Saud to make more of the saudi petrol dollars his family is oh so flush in. Beware those politicians behind gated communities! They are the first to sell us out.

aebe
aebe
6 years ago
Reply to  Nefarious420

Bushes (both) are progressives , little different from those further to the left . might explain why he was so tolerant of abuse from them .

Bill
Bill
6 years ago

Hopefully the Bush dynasty is finished

dad1927
dad1927
6 years ago
Reply to  Bill

…and the Clinton as well

dad1927
dad1927
6 years ago

He is an honorary bin Laden…

James Stamulis
James Stamulis
6 years ago

How many times did bush stick up for Christians as Obama attacked them in America for 8 years? Zero! Then when Trump ran for president Bush said he would vote for Hillary the evil witch of the NWO showing Bush, Clintons and Obama’s were all puppets of the NWO. America was that close to being toast. God bless Trump!

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
6 years ago

National Review and all its phony pundits and counterfeit intellectuals can kiss my ass and call me Charlie. Former “Weekly Standard” gasbag Fred Barnes, Jonah Goldberg, and Rich Lowery were all part of that gaggle of idiots who came out with that unanimous front cover edition bashing of President Trump leading up to the election. Now whenever any of them appear as a “contributor” on Fox News, I hit the mute button. My blood pressure medication has its limits.

freepetta
freepetta
6 years ago

The National Review is a ragsheet and should be treated as such.

Just as the NY Slimes makes great kitty litter, the awful National Review makes great bird ? paper.

When I see those Never Trump traitors on FNC they make me sick.

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
6 years ago

Baghdad, Iraq once had a majority Jewish population — until the Farhud pogrom.

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