• Alaskaball [comrade/them]MA
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        1 year ago

        The previous government had running infrastructure, hospitals, electricity, clean water, etc. before the American regime bombed them and plunged the region into chaos so as to install puppet governments that allowed the U.S regime to pillage their resources and inflate the stock portfolios of the war criminals that run the American regime.

        Zero justification for supporting the actions of the American terrorist regime.

          • emizeko [they/them]
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            1 year ago

            praising of a genocidal dictator

            um nobody here is praising Joe Biden

              • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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                1 year ago

                Who was Saddam's top allies during the Anfal campaign? Who gave him the gas? Like all neocon propagandists you're completely full of shit and yet you have the fuckin gall to open your filthy mouth and talk about genocidal dictator this and that after what the US did to Iraq, go fuck yourself shitlib

              • Alaskaball [comrade/them]MA
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                1 year ago

                Right, Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden's bullets, bombs, and depleted uranium thatve killed and displaced millions of Iraqi citizens are obviously much better.

                Isn't worshipping the lesser of two evils you liberal demons whole political ideology?

          • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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            1 year ago

            You're really conflating seething hatred for America destroying a country with praise for Saddam Hussein? You reactionaries really can't see in anything beyond binary terms, can you?

            Saddam was fucking atrocious, but Iraq had working infrastructure under him (and his rise to power was aided by the US, so he was another pawn)

            They had that torn apart courtesy of America and are only just building back

            • Ideology [she/her]
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              1 year ago

              Sorry, we're all out of empathy here in the west. Try getting better bootstraps, thirdworlders.

            • jack55555@lemmy.ml
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              1 year ago

              No I got no love for what the US and the allies did to Iraq, but what good is the the running water they had for the dead Kurds? From the start, my argument was they are better off now. Not that they are in paradise now.

              • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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                1 year ago

                Better off how? I pointed out their power grid is shit, their water table is contaminated, their buildings are bombed out, and everything but their oil has been privatized. Materially, they're fucked 3 ways to Sunday.

                If you're trying to still make digs about 'supporting Saddam killing Kurds' or w/e, I'll point out again that Saddam had the full backing of the US until Kuwait

                And you can get rid of people like him without invading the country and tearing it asunder

                • Ideology [she/her]
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                  1 year ago

                  It's almost like european powers pit ethnic groups against eachother to destabilize resource-rich regions.

              • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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                1 year ago

                The Americans did not care about the people Saddam killed, and they killed millions more Iraqis then he ever did, you're a delusional racist and a war worshiping dipshit

                • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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                  1 year ago

                  It's true, the number of times i heard "glass the middle east" as a child comprehensively destroyed for me the idea of america as a force for anything good, and of americans as an aggregate being anything but a swarm of stupid bloodthirsty assholes once they get activated.

                  I have hope for the individuals, but as a collective identity? No more American, the world does not need American.

              • Ideology [she/her]
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                1 year ago

                my argument was they are better off now.

                According to who?

                • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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                  1 year ago

                  Apparently this bozo's feelings

                  Motherfucker is acting like all libs, like this is some marvel movie shit to them where after the US got Saddam, all the 'good guys' stood on top of a building in downtown Baghdad at night and said 'We have hope now' and then the credits rolled

                  They forgot this is real life

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                  • MoreAmphibians [none/use name]
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                    1 year ago

                    The Kurds killed with chemical weapon technology supplied by the US? The killings that the US tried to frame Iran for? After which the US refused to sanction Iraq and continued to provide dual-use technology to Iraq.

                    Those dead Kurds?

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                • Sephitard9001 [he/him]
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                  1 year ago

                  Jan 6th is America's Libya moment, and China should missile strike the US airforce and establish a no-fly zone over North America to insure the U.S. regime can't kill their insurgents

              • Great_Leader_Is_Dead
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                1 year ago

                Then why are you fucking defending their presence there like five minutes ago?

              • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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                1 year ago

                They don't have functional infrastructure 20 years after the war and they did under Saddam. You really think the US was interested in anything besides cannibalizing the country for resources?

                edit: Oh yeah, they were interested in one other thing: handing lucrative ”rebuilding” contracts to corporations like Halliburton with direct ties to the Bush admin.

          • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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            1 year ago

            Hey quick question, what's worse: opposing the US empire, or being the US empire and giving Saddam Hussein chemical weapons to attack Iran?

          • AOCapitulator [they/them, she/her]
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            1 year ago

            What the fuck? There isn’t a single word of praise for any thing or anyone in that comment are you this fucking delusional???

          • Great_Leader_Is_Dead
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            1 year ago

            Now the praising of a genocidal

            What your feelings on the state of Israel?

          • Rod_Blagojevic [none/use name]
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            1 year ago

            I'm with you. It's not fair to make judgments based on the material reality of people's lives. You clearly said the word dictator, which means bad guy from an exotic locale. You won the argument. What are all these commies talking about?

          • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            The Iraq war and the aftermath probably killed more Iraqis than Saddam's entire reign.

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          • brain_in_a_box [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            Bitch, you're the one saying the genocidal slaughter and immiseration of millions of Iraqis is a good thing.

      • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        Iraq's power grid took until 2008 to return to the capacity it could generate prior to the first Gulf War over a decade and a half prior where the US needlessly destroyed their power grid, and it still can't meet demand in the summer

        It has depleted uranium in it's groundwater from American munitions

        It had ISIS/ISIL attack it

        Millions were displaced, hundreds of thousands were killed, and it got privatized into oblivion by IMF/World bank loans with greedy contractors like Halliburton licking their chops

        I'm pretty sure it is much worse then it was pre American involvement

      • Great_Leader_Is_Dead
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        1 year ago

        There's plenty of shitty government around the world, including a bunch the US actively supports. It doesn't give the US the right to kick the door down and subject the people there to more instability and violence to further their geopolitical goals under the guise of "humanitarianism".

      • brain_in_a_box [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        So if Russia installs a regime better than the current one, their invasion is ok then?

        Also lol at not knowing the USA installed the Iraqi government.