Snot Flickerman to Lemmy ShitpostEnglish • edit-21 month agoIraq War was preceded by the largest worldwide non-violent protests in history and the war happened anyway.lemmy.blahaj.zoneimagemessage-square138fedilinkarrow-up11.54Karrow-down127file-text
arrow-up11.52Karrow-down1imageIraq War was preceded by the largest worldwide non-violent protests in history and the war happened anyway.lemmy.blahaj.zoneSnot Flickerman to Lemmy ShitpostEnglish • edit-21 month agomessage-square138fedilinkfile-text
Those non-violent protests shook them so bad they wanted to charge non-violent Quaker protestors with terrorism.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink6•1 month agoThey knew there weren’t WMDs and used the fear of 9/11 attacks to push the war. They had OpEd pieces published to further push the idea of WMDs.
minus-square@Railing5132link4•1 month agoNo, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell, Rice, and a bunch of others in the administration championed it. Biden et al supported it. Subtle.
minus-square@leadorelink2•1 month agoCongress basically believed what they were told by the warmongers.
minus-squareɔiƚoxɘuplinkfedilink1•1 month agoHuh, I thought he was critical in making the case. I’m no political historian tho.
They knew there weren’t WMDs and used the fear of 9/11 attacks to push the war. They had OpEd pieces published to further push the idea of WMDs.
IIRC, Biden championed that, right?
No, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell, Rice, and a bunch of others in the administration championed it. Biden et al supported it. Subtle.
Congress basically believed what they were told by the warmongers.
Huh, I thought he was critical in making the case. I’m no political historian tho.
Barbara Lee did NOT support it