It’s still glossing over the fact he did all that as well. I’ve seen far too much apologia for W as of late.
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offspec@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoDo you think this post is lauding W?
BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
It’s definitely leveraging the present moment to create a myth of relative harm that serves to sanitize the past.
qarbone@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And they obviously read part of it based on their comment. Either they stopped after the arrows or their reading comprehension is USA-tier. Them and everyone who votes them up.
BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
W apologia is still fucking W apologia. Everyone started reminiscing on him for some reason after Trump’s first election and it made me want to puke. It’d be what, nearly a million dead Iraqis because of his bullshit? Nah, I’m going to get angry when people start making light of his war crimes and say untrue things like he had no financial stake in it.
qarbone@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The post is not apologia and not making light of his crimes. The post is saying there was no one who had leverage on him such that they could force him to do all the stupid shit he did. He just invaded a country and kicked off multiple decades of war in the Middle East for no comprehensible reason, like compromat. In the absence of a “mitigating reason” (as much as you can mitigate “war crimes”), it makes his actions look even worse
I had never heard of W gaining direct financial compensation from going to war. Oiling the US war machine doesn’t directly benefit many politicians; it just hoes the farmbed to ensure a healthy crop of corruption keeps growing.