Shit, libs still cheered pretty hard under bush too tbf. It was political/career suicide to criticize the idea of going to war back then from both sides. The jingoism was really off the charts. It wasn’t til around bush’s second term that it became more acceptable to be critical of it.
But also yea if there’s one thing that always keeps going regardless of who’s president it’s the imperialist machine and military spending
always gotta wait until the situation is locked in and irreversible before speaking truth to power, that way you don't ever have to actually do anything :hillary:
They cheered for Afghanistan but weren't happy about Iraq. Sort of. I remember the backlash against the French when they refused to join the coalition. They seemed to change their opinion every week based on what outrage the media fed them.
A lot of Americans believed the FBI. The FBI, the trusted organization that would never lie, approved of the invasion as absolutely necessary. Because Iraq was going to give WMD to Al-Qaeda, despite Saddam utterly hating Islamists and Al-Qaeda utterly hating nationalists like Saddam.
Shit, libs still cheered pretty hard under bush too tbf. It was political/career suicide to criticize the idea of going to war back then from both sides. The jingoism was really off the charts. It wasn’t til around bush’s second term that it became more acceptable to be critical of it.
But also yea if there’s one thing that always keeps going regardless of who’s president it’s the imperialist machine and military spending
always gotta wait until the situation is locked in and irreversible before speaking truth to power, that way you don't ever have to actually do anything :hillary:
They cheered for Afghanistan but weren't happy about Iraq. Sort of. I remember the backlash against the French when they refused to join the coalition. They seemed to change their opinion every week based on what outrage the media fed them.
A lot of Americans believed the FBI. The FBI, the trusted organization that would never lie, approved of the invasion as absolutely necessary. Because Iraq was going to give WMD to Al-Qaeda, despite Saddam utterly hating Islamists and Al-Qaeda utterly hating nationalists like Saddam.
Here's Robert Mueller lying us into the Iraq War. Video evidence of him lying to Congress.