• 8oow3291d@feddit.dk
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    9 days ago

    You know when people said that, it was derisive right?

    Derisive for some people. Not for some others.

    Also, hilarious to say the Gulf War was the good and just war and the Iraq war was a big fuck up, considering they were both the product of the same political dynasty.

    What kind of bullshit argument is that? Bush I could have taken Baghdad but didn’t, because he was not an idiot and knew it would destabilize the Middle East. Bush II undid the decision of his father - that was the act of overthrowing the actions of his father, not some long term dynastical plan.

    Here is Cheney in 1994 describing everything that went wrong after taking Baghdad, which is why Bush I did not do so: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YENbElb5-xY

    As if one did not inextricably lead to the other.

    It didn’t. Clinton did not go to Baghdad, and Gore would not have done so. Because they were not idiots, would have listened to the experts saying it was incredibly stupid.

    • AppleTea@lemmy.zip
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      8 days ago

      that was the act of overthrowing the actions of his father, not some long term dynastical plan.

      Yes, that’s how dynasties work. Inheriting political power produces stupid results.

      Also worth noting that we backed Saddam Hussein through the Iran-Iraq war. You can’t pick out this or that middle eastern conflict the US has been a part of and declare it “the good one”. We’ve been meddling for more than half a century. It’s silly to act though each individual event just happens, as if shorn free from the consequences of the prior one.