the political lesson everyone should take from Iraq is that you will regret being in favor of this sooner or later and the earlier you were against it the better off you’ll be
ignore the media frenzy and stake your position now, it’s the right thing to do and it’s the ambitious thing to do too
ignore the media frenzy and stake your position now, it’s the right thing to do and it’s the ambitious thing to do too
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No matter who's the president, AIPAC rules your poor country 😅😂😂😂😂🇮🇱💪
I mean, other than all the US soldiers who were killed or maimed. Statistically, some of them were probably excited to be there at first.
It is deemed much more respectable to have been wrong at the correct time then pulled to the right side by the proper influences.
Near-middle-aged me now hasn't budged much from this.
the decisions made by #47 are ALREADY costing YOU cash.
What remains to be seen is how brutal the crackdowns on anti-war movements will be
Mission Accomplished will age poorly in the short term - and standing up for what is right will always stand the test of time.
Being on the right side of history is not hard
Trump has set up several under his time
Afghans
Kurds
Iraqis
Syrians
Ukrainians
A modern legacy of cowardice and just being there to sell arms to whomever it can based on the insane ideology of Rich American
So who looks naive NOW?
It's 2003 all over again.
I'll get shit on again for not wanting a war today.
War is awful. Lives are destroyed. For what?
Americans are nuts, as a rule.
Someone I knew had a fucking meltdown when I stated that the soviets took Berlin in WW2. You know, a provable historic fact. With photos and video and everything.
"They couldn't have done it without us though" was all they could muster as an actual argument.
Americans after Pearl Harbor: "Nazis are a plague, and we have always been 100% against them!"
Not that they are good guys either. Nanjing and all. But like, shits complicated in real life.
Almost like war is shit and makes us all shit by being involved.
cmon, some of us lived through those times...it was not good. another flip fl...er, example: health insurance mandate. (There are a dozen examples...i'd stop)
though, again, like 5 weeks after Obama defeated her in the primary (probably bc she did vote for Iraq) - he turned right around and chose someone for VP who was far, far more responsible for that war and far more enthusiastic about it
"Bernie's Not A Democrat!" has always struck me as a specious dismissal. Who was the true Democrat THEN? (And who was a better "team player"?)
And of course, Bernie's more of a Democrat than TRUMP...
Nobody deserves political office because it's "their turn".
Y’all just as bad as MAGA with your party loyalty.
Why, exactly, was it “her turn” to be president? When is it my turn to be president? Is that how it works in a democracy? Or even a republic?
Against the assessment of his intelligence advisors.
Without authorization by the US congress.
He didn't even notify congress.
This is unconstitutional, illegal, immoral, unethical, a war crime, and counter productive.
The US is now less safe.
could argue Gephardt but yeah
I told him I fully expect him to file impeachment charges or sign on to others for usurpation of Congress's war powers by launching an unprovoked attack and war crime on Iran.
Ah well, let's not forget how Joe Biden had no career after- wait, hm.
Oh! Dick Cheney went to jail and- oh, uh, hm.
Well, John McCain never saw prominence again after- oh, wait a minute.
Oh, but surely
This wouldn't be happening if Iran had nukes; it's the only effective deterrent
Gaddafi - gave up nukes, dead
Ukraine - gave up nukes, invaded
Kim Jong Un - does w/e he wants
Accept Iran w/ nukes or put boots in
And they ignored us.
And they got re-elected.
Hundreds of thousands died, trillions were spent, and little was accomplished.
An absolute disgrace.
As I was in 2002(sic!) on our last Persian Gulf excellent adventure.
Didn’t care then. Don’t care now
Trump doesn't care. He sees nukes as an opportunity for real estate.