Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-229 giorni faIraq 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@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-229 giorni famessage-square138fedilinkfile-text
Those non-violent protests shook them so bad they wanted to charge non-violent Quaker protestors with terrorism.
minus-squareRed89@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up6·28 giorni faThey 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-squareɔiƚoxɘup@infosec.publinkfedilinkarrow-up1·28 giorni faIIRC, Biden championed that, right?
minus-squareRailing5132@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·28 giorni faNo, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell, Rice, and a bunch of others in the administration championed it. Biden et al supported it. Subtle.
minus-squareleadore@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·28 giorni faCongress basically believed what they were told by the warmongers.
minus-squareɔiƚoxɘup@infosec.publinkfedilinkarrow-up1·28 giorni faHuh, 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.