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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why wasn't former President Bush of the USA, charged with any crimes, when we marched into Afghanistan and Iraq by his orders, under pretenses?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So, tl;dr: After being hammered by strikes they made an offer to hand him over to a 3rd party?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why wasn't former President Bush of the USA, charged with any crimes, when we marched into Afghanistan and Iraq by his orders, under pretenses?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t put Afghanistan and Iraq in the same level.

  • Bin Laden (and Al-Qaeda) was in Afghanistan and they refused to hand him over. That invasion had the support of NATO and even Russia and China. Why? Because Al-Qaeda existing doesn’t benefit anyone and they were behind the attacks.

  • Iraq was different. It was mostly a US and British invasion, under false pretences. Iraq used to have chemical weapons and even used against civilians back in the 80s, started a war with Iran and invaded Kuwait, but that’s not why the invasion happened.

  Now, why wasn’t Bush charged with any crimes? For the same reason nothing will happen to Putin in Russia. What are you going to do, invade the country to arrest the president?

  Is it fair? No. But it’s how the world works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I the asshole?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  And I say, “Thanks dude! Bavarian cream is my favorite!”.

  Okay, nothing wrong with this, unless you knew the person wasn’t a “dude”.

  And the office temp shouts, “I’m not a dude!” and pushes the coffee and donuts onto the floor. Big mess.

  Obviously wrong, but a “I call everyone dudes, no offence meant” from you would show everyone in the room that you didn’t mean to offend them.

  And I reply, “Nobody cares about your stupid gender.”

  And now you’re an asshole. And a dumb one at that as not only you expressed your opinion about someone else’s “stupid gender”, but also turned others against you.

  Assuming this even happened and you’re not leaving anything out, you need more “people skills”.