• Chetzemoka@startrek.website
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      Yep, I very distinctly remember watching this speech on the TV in the breakroom at work, thinking, “Hold up, what the fuck do WMDs in Iraq have anything at all to do with the people who crashed those planes?” But the general vibe of people actually cheering as they listened to the beat of the war drums was terrifying. There were a lot of us who never bought that bs

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        So many people back then thought Saddam had something to do with 9/11. Poll after poll showed it. It was so damn depressing.

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          They were pushing that narrative pretty fucking hard. At the same time some clown was sending anthrax letters around and they used that too. There were also protests at the white house before the invasion about no war for oil, so it’s not like support was universal and plenty of people saw through the ruse.

          But then there was that whole freedom fries thing… dear God.

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            There were protests nationwide, at many college campuses and federal courthouses.

            We had over 4,000 people protest at some podunk town. We even had a bunch of news cameras cover it.

        • FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world
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          He was easily the most identifiable “bad guy” in the middle east aside from Yasser Arafat in the public’s imagination. Probably contributed to it a bit…

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        So many young people have no clue how fucking terrifying it was, and Bush’s image has been somewhat rehabilitated as well. People are afraid of Trump bringing about a fascist revolution, but he’s a clown compared to the Bush crowd. A lot of the shit we’re dealing with today got started or really accelerated under Bush. Reagan is in a similar position.

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        I remember watching CNN and seeing “evidence” of WMDs found. It was some piece of shit flatbed truck with a load of pipes covered by a tarp: dirty, crudely cut, metal pipes. Apparently they were possibly raw materials for … missiles.

        Yeah.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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      He maintained that he really brought anthrax to the UN that day. Which either means he was one of the most reckless people on the planet or that you can’t trust a word he said. We’ll probably never know now.

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      And it was obvious that they’d already decided to invade Iraq long before Powell’s infamous UN presentation.