The narrative the overwhelming majority of Americans accept is "well the Bush Admin had bad intel, oh well whoopsie-daisy". Which conveniently absolves everyone - from the president on down to regular citizens - from any responsibility for the deaths of upwards of a million men, women, and children.

I mean, we all know Bush lied about it. But the fact that no one else even wants to interrogate that narrative is proof that this is truly a bad country. We're really just gonna let someone get away with the murdering hundreds of thousands of people, huh? Even if Bush was by some miracle duped, that is still criminal negligence and he should still spend the rest of his days rotting in the Hague. But nope, all is forgiven because he gave Michelle Obama some candy and he said some vague, extremely soft criticisms of Trump.

I think Americans do have some collective guilt over supporting the invasion. Now, I could maybe give some credit to Americans if they were prosecuting war criminal charges on Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell, et al. But nope, not even a hint of holding them accountable. They're all going to eventually die in wealth and comfort. Meanwhile the Iraqis who died and their families will never have that peace.

TL; DR death to America

:amerikkka:

  • DoubleShot [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    And this photograph alone is enough to start making my blood boil. I'm not really sure how to CW it, it's not graphic but it is haunting. It's pic of an Iraqi man being detained with a bag over his head, holding his son. Truly evil shit.

    Edit: also, I'm trying to compile sources for describing how the entire invasion of Iraq from beginning to end was truly immoral. From the war criminal president on down to the war criminal troops. Obviously there's the Blowback podcast but any other sources you all have are appreciated. When people ask why I'm not "supporting the troops" or whatever I'd like to eventually be able to answer just by talking about the Iraq invasion and not even getting into Korea, Vietnam, etc.

    • Antiwork [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      When people ask why I'm not "supporting the troops" or whatever I'd like to eventually be able to answer just by talking about the Iraq invasion and not even getting into Korea, Vietnam, etc.

      You can do this already. Just based on what you know I’m sure. You could move it even closer to Syria. Every war America is involved is fucked and kills millions of people for no good reason. The military is built to steal resources and labor and then kill you and destroy your government if you don’t let them do either of those two things.

      • DoubleShot [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Yeah but Americans just slip into "well then you should blame the government but not the troops" mode. Fuck yes, I blame the troops too.

        • Antiwork [none/use name]
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          2 years ago

          Cognitive Dissonance. Can’t really reason or convince your way out of that line of thinking.

      • Goblinmancer [any]
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        2 years ago

        I hate :reddit-logo: Indonesia libs, they claim the PKI ( communist party) were not uwu innocent like the western media claimed(what kind of fucking media they were consuming?) That the PKI deserve some blame for the violence because apparently PKI killed 9 generals, like that somehow justifies the rape, torture, and murder of 1 million Indonesians. Meanwhile the cops they love to bootlick just killed more than 100 people by tear gassing a stadium, but its okay because hahahaha Indonesian people idiots that deserve to die unlike our :reddit-logo: le rationality ass!

    • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      I've heard anecdotally that in Iraq, the image of an M9 pistol is synonymous with summary execution