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Investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald said the same people who pushed the U.S. into war with Iraq and Afghanistan for Republicans are now back to do the same for the Democrats with a war against Russia. Greenwald told FOX News' Laura Ingraham on Thursday that people should be cautious when the two parties are in lockstep when it comes to war because that means there was very little debate and people were coerced.

Greenwald also said Russiagate and the hatred and distrust for Russia that was created is one of the reasons why the Russia-Ukraine conflict could not be solved diplomatically.

"This is journalism in 2022," Greenwald said. "There are no standards, there are no ethics. A lot of their readers who they write for want them to lie to them or about their enemies as long as it advances the cause."

"I think the more interesting question is the fact that you pointed out to, there is very little debate over something this cataclysmic potentially in the U.S. Congress," he said. "I haven't seen the two parties united in lockstep to this extent since the days after 9/11. I think that lockstep unity produced a lot of bad outcomes. It's generally a bad thing."

"We should be experiencing discomfort whenever the two parties are in complete unity because it signifies not rational thought that has led to a common consensus, but a kind of moral coercion that politicians sense and feel like they need to embrace a narrative about questioning it because as you know very well and I do too, any questioning of the current consensus in Washington immediately subjects you to claims you're a Russian agent, and obviously if you're an elected leader or anyone you don't want that said about you. It's working to prevent the questioning that we need, the debate we need to," Greenwald said.

"The amazing thing is it's the same people, it's David Frum and Nicolle Wallace and Matthew Dowd and Bill Kristol and Max Boot," Greenwald said. "All these neocons back then who were doing this and made themselves the enemy of the country. They ended up in complete disrepute by the end of the second Bush-Cheney term, are now back in the saddle doing it on behalf of Democrats on their cable networks, on their newspapers' op-ed pages. And it's like people have no historical memory, they cheer for these people because they rehabilitated themselves by opposing Trump and that's all they know."

GLENN GREENWALD: It's not just the same tactics, the same rhetorical tactics. You know back then, the idea was if you question the War on Terror, if you question the neocons' invasion of Iraq, if you questioned anything the neocons wanted to do, it meant your patriotism was impugned. It meant you were on the other side, you were an ally of the terrorist, all that rhetoric. And that's the same rhetoric now.

The amazing thing is it's the same people -- it's David Frum and Nicolle Wallace and Matthew Dowd and Bill Kristol and Max Boot. All these neocons back then who were doing this and made themselves the enemy of the country. They ended up in complete disrepute by the end of the second Bush-Cheney term -- are now back in the saddle doing it on behalf of Democrats on their cable networks, on their newspapers' op-ed pages. And its' like people have no historical memory, they cheer for these people because they rehabilitated themselves by opposing Trump and that's all they know.

It's like the neocons have become the most influential force again in American foreign policy as though Iraq and the excesses of the War on Terror never happened.

LAURA INGRAHAM: Yeah, some of us evolved.

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