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
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I was not a leftist at the time of the invasion. I was also pretty young. I spent 20 minutes online looking into the case for war and just after that I knew it was all BS. It was incredibly transparent.
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From what i understand the iraq war protests were the biggest anti-war protests in us history but most people don't know they happened bc the news media just didn't give them any coverage.
The media sucks but I actually wouldn’t blame them entirely, here. The issue is that the protesters were too polite. If they had really wanted to stop the war, they should have sabotaged the infrastructure powering the war in the first place. Polite protests achieve next to nothing.