Comment on Annon relfects on W doing it for the love of the game
BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week agoW 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 1 week 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.