Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-29 months agoIraq War was preceded by the largest worldwide non-violent protests in history and the war happened anyway.lemmy.blahaj.zoneimagemessage-square133linkfedilinkarrow-up11.56Karrow-down128file-text
arrow-up11.53Karrow-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-29 months agomessage-square133linkfedilinkfile-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 months 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-squareɔiƚoxɘup@infosec.publinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months agoIIRC, Biden championed that, right?
minus-squareRailing5132@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·9 months 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-up2·9 months agoCongress basically believed what they were told by the warmongers.
minus-squareɔiƚoxɘup@infosec.publinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months 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.
Huh, I thought he was critical in making the case. I’m no political historian tho.
Barbara Lee did NOT support it