I don't believe most people supported the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq. It was such an un-American war of aggression. The kind of thing the bad guys do. There were hundreds of thousands of people in the streets protesting the rush to invade.
That's the part of this that I really don't understand. His base was all about no more wars + they loved the fact that he was claiming to be the peace dove president. Now he's doing this??
These phony Republican wars cost US taxpayers trillion$. But Republicans will pay anything for guns (and nothing for food for kids or education). And the wealthy, who don’t pay fair taxes,
love the money they make off endless war. And endless death.
looks like Star Trek might have called it this time George not The Simpsons, Star Trek universe, World War III is depicted as occurring from 2026 to 2053
Isn’t it amazing that a guy that avoided the military and disrespected those that have & continue to serve is so excited about sending our kids & grandkids to war?
This feels very different in a lot of ways though. There doesn't seem to be much effort to make the case. To sell the war to the American public. If anything, the impression is more that it's inevitable, not that it's popular.
I'm pretty sure no one thought that "America first" meant distancing the US from all of its historical allies, then allowing Israel to drag us into a war with no strategic end in sight.
I never supported the Iraq war. I wish more people realized dubya was going to just repeat the lie until he got what he wanted. He really fucked up that whole region and it's still being felt today.
Yes, after 9/11, the jingoistic patriotism became very oppressive. In the area where I lived, my car was one of the few that didn't have a yellow ribbon "Support Our Troops" magnet. That's when we decided to immigrate to Canada.
Im not sure who is in favor and who is against this war. Congress is hush so are the Palestinians (and they are always noisy) there isn't much left vs right on this war either. Is it possible the left and the right has found a common enemy or has the media not been instructed on what to say yet.
The beaches that needs stormimg right now is not Normandy...it's Americas OWN beaches. Imagine if Normandy had never happend because people sat around talking and wringing their hands!!
In 2016 after 45 took office, he was threatening to bomb Iran. I attended a Peace Rally in SF with a friend whose family lives in Iran. I was acutely aware of an agent (FBI?) with a HUGE lens on his camera training it on me. I was for peace then, and I'm for peace now. Let people live.
They better start preparing those guns, they must got to war. Their dear leader will need them. Those who voted against him, will sit back and watch. We did not vote for this 💩
So Trump has bombed #Iran. Well I guess he won't be getting the Noble Peace Prize anytime soon (unless he is somehow able to appoint himself as the head of that organization too). BTW, Republicans in Congress want to rename Dulles Airport and the DC Metro System after him. It never ends. 🙄
As did I, right up until the lie was revealed. Then I was horrified at how easily I was sucked in by propaganda. I made it my personal mission to ensure it never happened to me again. 💜
Yeah, as someone who protested the War in Iraq, and was called all kinds of things for my views by people who now claim to have been against it, it is frustrating.
Iran’s the one making the Shahed drones that are killing Ukrainian civilians so I don’t feel bad for that evil Iranian regime, but if you want to know why Trump is okay with this war but not doing anything about Russia, it’s because he’s a coward who only picks easy fights. He’s chicken shit.
🇺🇸 moved its aircraft carriers to the Middle East & diverted all of Ukraine’s military support to this already. 🇮🇱 already has air superiority so Ukraine needs it more. That’s what pisses me off about it. I’m happy that Iran’s shaheed production is getting wiped out, but Russia produces their own now.
If by some miracle we get through this, can we hand the people over that wanted to start a war as a peace offering? Because no normal person wanted this.
I was 100% behind the bombing of Iraq. I was the VP of my university's College Republicans. I had all the books of the Fox News anchors. Took me a long time to break away from that, but I'm finally registered Democrat and attended Kamala's rally in my city. #NoKings
It’s also amazing how all the Second Amendment gun nuts always whine about having their guns to defend against a tyrannical government and yet here we are and where are they?
I would get yapped at for being against the Iraq War. YOU DONT SUPPORT THE TROOPS! Yes, I did and do, by not wanting them to risk life and limb for a lie. I believed and trusted the inspectors who repeatedly said there were no WMDs. I knew the WH was lying. We still have no explanation.
Many Americans were for it.
Those of us who prefer peacen and not blood and oil....will always stand against it.
My grandfather was in WW2. Ive seen and heard enough.
especially since the supposed justification for war with Iran, the situation with nuclear weapons, was created by Trump in the first place(walking out on the already negotiated plan because it was initiated by Obama).
Well, they wanted the guy they hated to go to war to say how awful a person he was, except he wouldn't, because he wasn't a psychotically deranged orange-faced old man who desperately wants to emulate his controller in the kremlin who will go to war while claiming to be "peaceful"...
This is devastating… So sick of the Wars & the great sadness that happens.. We are all human & we should be past these wars by now.. Another Republican War
Despite my youthful bloodlust, it didn’t take too long to realize we didn’t know wtf we were doing. Truck drivers getting kidnapped? Unprotected supply lines? I knew we were cooked. But i was already in, but reserve.
Afghanistan was morally correct. The execution was shit. 10 years on the run
Did I ever tell you about the time I met Ruffalo at a party & he swept me off my feet, taking me around the world to do the most good where it was most needed for several decades?
Pretty sure that happened btw when I went to bed and when I got up last Tues/Wed.
Wait when the first bodybags with dead US soldiers comes back.
Don't forget Trump calls those who gave their life as a US soldier or became POW losers.
Trump never waste a single day to serve for his country.
But many veterans vote for him instead of spit on him.
These are traitors to their comrads.
I was doing my do over here in Australia, because our troops were heading over if it all went off. Which, it did, and they did - for 8 years. Bush lied through his teeth over that. It was so obvious and infuriating that the media was reporting lies. Just like now.
Data from Stockholm says Russia has 4,309 nukes, China 600, and North Korea 50. Mutually assured destruction (MAD) rules appear successfully in place with these unfriendly countries. But politicians in Washington seem to have a blank spots in their 🧠s on this history. 😶
It's like that scene from Spiderman 2, when J. Jonah Jamison is lamenting that he brought down Spiderman, until Spiderman steals back his costume right in front of him, and Jamison turns on a dime and starts condemning him again.
Couldn't agree more. If you're okay with endangering the lives of others, you better be okay endangering the lives of your own. They're not somehow special or more worthy than anyone else.
Or maybe, they can understand the war machine benefits oligarchs and is detrimental to literally everyone.
Killing people is never the answer. If Trump was the master negotiator he thinks he is, he would have never pulled out of the nuclear deal in the first fucking place. Then this would not be happening. Americans would not have to wonder if their next trip to the mall will result in a terror attack.
We were talked into the Iraq War by the lies of Dubya Bush, who assured us that Iraq was loaded with Weapons of Mass Destruction; we believed him long enough to reelect him, then the truth came out, and his popularity plunged, and so did our backing of the war.
I was totally against the Iraq war. I remember being shocked when Bush, Cheney, and Powell shifted from talking about the Taliban in Afghanistan to talking about Saddam in Iraq.
I'd be interested in the evidence that most Americans were for that deadly boondoggle.
Any clue of what "Code Pink" is telling now?
Actually I do not care, they are paid by the bad guys, so probably either telling they are doing good, either moved on a completely irrelevant topic, either struggling finding what to do now.
Behind mentions of Persia & DJT the “chosen one” memes are the biggest fans of war with Iran: A faction of evangelicals who believe DJT & Bibi ‘were placed’ in their positions to bring about the Rapture. US & Israeli news has reported it for yrs. Huckabee ambassador to Israel is a believer.
I knew I was probably going to die due to an unnecessary war in the Middle East since I was 5 and I’ve honestly given up. Nobody has a say whether or not we go to war except for the military tech industries and their army of lobbyists. All Americans are expendable and always have been.
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love the money they make off endless war. And endless death.
Sigh.
But now? This is even more obvious, yet here we are again, ignoring the lessons of history… and in so many ways besides middle eastern wars.
Republicans are notorious for this.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Ban Predator ICE Bounty Hunters In California!
Frosty hiring Child Predators
As bounty hunters
$1500-$2000 per child!
MAGA contains a significant percentage of the same people who were calling us that.
They haven't changed and they haven't learned anything.
They'll cheer this on.
2025 Q2: WAR IS UNAVOIDABLE! WAR IS UNAVOIDABLE! WAR IS UNAVOIDABLE!
Like that would happen!
Wars never work.
#NoWars
#StopIsrael
#EyesonGaza
He loves war.
We also knew most of them would be okay with tyranny as long as they weren't the targets.
Eventually, tyranny always turns its gaze to those who supported it, and usually it's too late.
Hope Not, Donald J Trump might have gotten us into WWIII
.. maybe I'll drop a nuke hmmmm
Pysch eval please...
Only illegals will be deported...oh that's too hard. Takes work...
Those of us who prefer peacen and not blood and oil....will always stand against it.
My grandfather was in WW2. Ive seen and heard enough.
https://civicshout.com/p/stop-the-shutdown-of-planned-parenthood-clinics
Afghanistan was morally correct. The execution was shit. 10 years on the run
Pretty sure that happened btw when I went to bed and when I got up last Tues/Wed.
Don't forget Trump calls those who gave their life as a US soldier or became POW losers.
Trump never waste a single day to serve for his country.
But many veterans vote for him instead of spit on him.
These are traitors to their comrads.
79%! That is not a small number!
https://web.archive.org/web/20241205201431/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2003/05/17/no-political-fallout-for-bush-on-weapons/ba3cebb7-56d5-42b8-86cb-0a4d1ce4c0e6/
It didn't matter who the target was - it was that classic dichotomy of good guy with a gun vs a bad guy with a gun.
And when all you have is a gun - every other country starts looking like a target..
https://bsky.app/profile/rasushrestha.bsky.social/post/3ls5snwdga22h
https://bsky.app/profile/david-stone.bsky.social/post/3ls3jdccrpk2t
War is the answer.
And who benefits?
The terrifying number of people in Congress invested in the United States war machine.
Not commissioned, mind you. *ENLISTED*. E-1.
Or maybe, they can understand the war machine benefits oligarchs and is detrimental to literally everyone.
STAY SAFE AMERICA SOLDIERS! 💔
Ironic
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Peace_Index
It's just a convenient excuse to hide behind.
I'd be interested in the evidence that most Americans were for that deadly boondoggle.
It was a deadly non sequitur.
Actually I do not care, they are paid by the bad guys, so probably either telling they are doing good, either moved on a completely irrelevant topic, either struggling finding what to do now.
Iran does so from beginning, so …