President Biden's monumental hypocrisy over Ukraine

He rebukes Russian President Putin for following our example in Iraq

British sage Samuel Johnson observed, “Among the calamities of war may be jointly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages.” (from The Idler, 1758)

One among infinite examples was President Joe Biden’s acerbic rebuke yesterday to Russian President Vladimir Putin for the audacity of dispatching more than 100,000 troops to invade Ukraine. Mr. Biden hyperbolically elaborated: “What literally is at stake is not just Ukraine. It’s freedom…The idea that over 100,000 forces would invade another country after a war—since World War II, nothing like that has happened. Things have changed radically. We have to make sure we change them back.”

But is Mr. Biden suffering from amnesia? In 2003, with then Senator Biden’s support, the United States invaded Iraq with 130,000 American soldiers and 45,000 British soldiers as tagalongs fantasizing about weapons of mass destruction. Two decades later, American troops remain. Majority Shiite Iraq was predictably transformed into a satellite of Iran’s brutal mullahs. ISIS was born. The torture and abuses at Abu Ghraib prison were a second edition of Vietnam’s My Lai massacre.

Even before the United States war of aggression against Iraq, acclaimed Secretary of State Madeleine Albright had expressed complacency with 500,000 Iraq infant deaths caused by United States sanctions in an interview with Leslie Stahl on CBS’ 60 Minutes:

Lesley Stahl on U.S. sanctions against Iraq: We have heard that a half million children have died. I mean, that’s more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?

Secretary of State Madeleine Albright: I think this is a very hard choice, but the price–we think the price is worth it.

—60 Minutes (5/12/96)

In other words, Mr. Biden helped to write the playbook that Putin has used in Ukraine. Lies, war crimes, and the crime of aggressive war. Hypocrisy on a titanic scale on display at his news conference yesterday in Poland

George Orwell mocked Communism’s faux devotion to equality in Animal Farm with the memorable words, “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”

President Biden has tacitly authored a codicil over Ukraine, “All wars of aggression are illegal, but some aggressive wars are more illegal than others and may be airbrushed from history.”

The clock of America’s self-ruination moved 5 minutes closer to midnight.