Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-27か月前Iraq War was preceded by the largest worldwide non-violent protests in history and the war happened anyway.lemmy.blahaj.zoneexternal-linkmessage-square134fedilinkarrow-up11.56Karrow-down128file-text
arrow-up11.53Karrow-down1external-linkIraq War was preceded by the largest worldwide non-violent protests in history and the war happened anyway.lemmy.blahaj.zoneSnot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-27か月前message-square134fedilinkfile-text
Those non-violent protests shook them so bad they wanted to charge non-violent Quaker protestors with terrorism.
minus-squareRed89@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up6·7か月前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.
minus-squareRailing5132@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·7か月前No, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell, Rice, and a bunch of others in the administration championed it. Biden et al supported it. Subtle.
minus-squareleadore@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·7か月前Congress basically believed what they were told by the warmongers.
minus-squareɔiƚoxɘup@infosec.publinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7か月前Huh, 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.
Barbara Lee did NOT support it
Huh, I thought he was critical in making the case. I’m no political historian tho.