Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-210 days agoIraq War was preceded by the largest worldwide non-violent protests in history and the war happened anyway.lemmy.blahaj.zoneexternal-linkmessage-square138fedilinkarrow-up11.53Karrow-down127file-text
arrow-up11.5Karrow-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-210 days agomessage-square138fedilinkfile-text
Those non-violent protests shook them so bad they wanted to charge non-violent Quaker protestors with terrorism.
minus-squareRed89@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up6·9 days 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-squareRailing5132@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·9 days agoNo, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell, Rice, and a bunch of others in the administration championed it. Biden et al supported it. Subtle.
minus-squareleadore@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·8 days agoCongress basically believed what they were told by the warmongers.
minus-squareɔiƚoxɘup@infosec.publinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 days 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.
Barbara Lee did NOT support it
Huh, I thought he was critical in making the case. I’m no political historian tho.