Two decades of U.S. policy appear to be rooted in a mistaken understanding of what happened that day. archive

  • kbin_space_program
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    36 months ago

    This isn’t new. Also, this is a false narrative that the invasion of Iraq was ever about retribution for 9/11.

    It was started because the Dubya administration insisted that Iraq had WMDs and implied that Saddam was planning on using them relatively soon

    • @jordanlundM
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      66 months ago

      Not even that… W. had been planning to attack Iraq on day 1 because of the failed assassination plot against his dad.

      • @RestrictedAccount
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        66 months ago

        That was Bush’s motivation. Cheney recruited him to be President while Cheney was head of Halliburton.

        Halliburton made a metric shit ton off all this shit.

        Cheney was WAAAYYY more involved in policy - especially geopolitics - than previous VPs.

        Once W realized that Cheney was a lying sack of shit, he was banished from policy, but that wasn’t until almost the end of the second term.