Snot Flickerman to Lemmy [email protected]English • edit-27 months agoIraq War was preceded by the largest worldwide non-violent protests in history and the war happened anyway.lemmy.blahaj.zoneimagemessage-square134fedilinkarrow-up11.55K
arrow-up11.55KimageIraq War was preceded by the largest worldwide non-violent protests in history and the war happened anyway.lemmy.blahaj.zoneSnot Flickerman to Lemmy [email protected]English • edit-27 months agomessage-square134fedilink
Those non-violent protests shook them so bad they wanted to charge non-violent Quaker protestors with terrorism.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink6•7 months agoThey knew there weren’t WMDs and used the fear of 9/11 attacks to push the war. They had OpEd pieces published to further push the idea of WMDs.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•7 months agoNo, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell, Rice, and a bunch of others in the administration championed it. Biden et al supported it. Subtle.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•7 months agoCongress basically believed what they were told by the warmongers.
minus-squareɔiƚoxɘuplinkfedilink1•7 months agoHuh, I thought he was critical in making the case. I’m no political historian tho.
They knew there weren’t WMDs and used the fear of 9/11 attacks to push the war. They had OpEd pieces published to further push the idea of WMDs.
IIRC, Biden championed that, right?
No, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell, Rice, and a bunch of others in the administration championed it. Biden et al supported it. Subtle.
Barbara Lee did NOT support it
Congress basically believed what they were told by the warmongers.
Huh, I thought he was critical in making the case. I’m no political historian tho.