• Placebonickname@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I agree Iraq was a mistake, but I believe Iraq was a mistake based on intelligence failure - which UK, Australia, Japan, and others agreed to participate. That failure took two years to complete and the Us gave Iraq tome to cooperate with UN weapons inspection teams. Yes, a mistake - but a mistake that the US did not do unilaterally.

    Trump isn’t going to garner support from other countries, wait for the UN, or examine Tulsi G’s info on Iran nukes - he just wants to swing his military like a giant penis.

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      I agree Iraq was a mistake, but I believe Iraq was a mistake based on intelligence failure

      If it was just an intelligence failure half the country wouldn’t be railing against it. Iraq was also justified by lies, just slightly better packaged lies.

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        Our own intelligence agencies were at odds with each other. Part of the justification for going into Iraq was their supposed support for terrorist groups which was shakey at best.

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          Bullshit the CIA literally told the administration and they lied on stand in the UN to start the war. Don’t act like the only two conflicts of interests that made billions didn’t get anything out of starting the greedy endeavor called the Iraq War.

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          In the late 1970s and early 80s Iraq under the control of Saddam Hussein used chemical weapons, including mustard, gas to attack Iran.

          Under Saddam Hussein Iraq also used chemical weapons to attack a minority ethnic population called the Kurdish in their own borders

          And in the 1990’s Saddam, invaded another country without cause.

          All those facts together, it felt totally reasonable to believe that Saddam Hussein had chemical weapons and was willing to use them or give them to terrorist

          I know that this is contrary to the popular message in the media these days, but it’s a time living through the actual event, there was another perspective to this whole story

          

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            All those facts together, it felt totally reasonable to believe that Saddam Hussein had chemical weapons and was willing to use them or give them to terrorist

            Only if you ignore… literally everything else about the situation. “Felt reasonable” isn’t an excuse to start a fucking war.

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      Buddy… The whole world minus cuck UK were telling us the whole WMDS thing was bullshit.

      The Bush administration manufactured evidence and send Powell to the UN to lie.