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Comment on Iraq War was preceded by the largest worldwide non-violent protests in history and the war happened anyway.

Red89@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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.

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Quexotic@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
IIRC, Biden championed that, right?

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- Railing5132@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  No, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell, Rice, and a bunch of others in the administration championed it. Biden et al supported it. Subtle.
  
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  - leadore@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Congress basically believed what they were told by the warmongers.
    
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  - Quexotic@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Huh, I thought he was critical in making the case. I’m no political historian tho.
    
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  - Coherence@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Barbara Lee did NOT support it
    
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