Past Events with New Meaning

[untermensche]

I think Powell believed that with the US mobilizing to invade, that Hussein would have just blurted, "NO WEAPONS!!!" to stop the invasion. That he didn't, that indicated he was hiding something.

That is a pretty roundabout way to justify saying this is evidence he had weapons, as one answer as to Hussein's belligerence was he didn't want to look weak to Iran.

The biggest, lie however of this century was when Trump took the oath of office.

There was no justification for the invasion.

It was pure aggression.

An act of terrorism.

The people doing it believed they had a superclever plan to cement America as the only world superpower for a long time to come.

They were men of faith.

Looking at the plan, it's a wonder anyone thought it would get anywhere. Pretty much everyone and their mother could see where that idiotic thing was going to end up. Every critic turned out to be right, and the ones who were wrong went on to be powerful and well-connected power brokers whose advice was sought by other powerful people.

Rumsfeld was as maniacal as Hitler. He didn't just want to come up with the fool-proof plan he wanted to tell the military how many men to use to carry it out.

The man should have hung right next to Hussein.

Because no amount of failure is too awful to be rewarded if you're rich and white. Thank goodness wealth privilege and race privilege are just imagined nonsense cooked up by evil libtards trying to hold back the superior Aryan race.

There was a lot of money in it for the military industrial complex and corporate mercenaries.

 

[Underseer]

I also seem to recall Bill Clinton sending economics advisers to help the Russians after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Given what Clinton is like, the advisers were likely peddling neoliberal libertarian codswallop. If that made things worse for everyone other than rich people, then that might have made the Russian people desperate enough to put up with bullshit from a demagogue who talked tough.

It's a stretch, I know, but I wonder about the various decisions Bush I and Clinton made in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union. Does anyone have a handle on the consequences of those decisions?