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That's cool.
When I was an intelligence analyst in the military I witnessed the President of the United States ignore the entire intelligence community when they indicated to him that there was no evidence linking Saddam Hussein to the September 11 attacks and there was no evidence of any weapons of mass destruction programs in Iraq.
Then I saw that same administration fabricate intelligence indicating the contrary
Then I saw that same administration blame faulty intelligence when no WMDs were found, blaming the entire intelligence community in the process
They somehow managed to ruin the entire IC's credibility when they were right to begin with
That was pretty unbelievable
When I was an American I witnessed an obvious Russian agent get elected... twice, and destroy the standing of the US completely.
It is also unbelievable that the hundreds of thousands of dead in a war built on a lie in Iraq pales in comparison to the millions around the world that will die because of Trump's cuts to USAID alone
Trump can kill off millions without even starting a war on false pretenses
Like his own personal global Holodomor
Again.
Hey can kill millions again. This will be the second time he has caused the death of millions.
Truth
When I was an American I shit myself.
I was there when they put that guy on a rope. Wild times indeed.
I was a kid during all that, but my recollection is they didn't directly try to claim that he did? It just seemed like the country was swept up in the patriotic "glass the middle east" fever and went with it because murica fuck yeah, and it was part of the GWOT, but the messaging was all "evil dictator wmds etc." and not "saddam did 9/11." Though I was probably in high school before I could even articulate the difference between Iraq and Afghanistan, so I could be mistaken.
9/11 and Iraq: The making of a tragedy
New headcanon, Bush knew the Saudis were behind 9/11 and invaded Iraq specifically to fuck them over. /s
Interesting read though. The 80% number believing Iraq was involved is not surprising to me, I just didn't realize the bush admin actually pushed that narrative.
Bush 100% knew the Saudis were behind it, so not sarcasm.
The US wanted a base in the Middle East that wasn’t SA, and Iraq was an easy target. They didn’t care about destabilization. That was a perk. It was all about force projection from a central base.
Yeah, it was crazy times.