• disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
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    Not defending Dubya, but it’s far from just him. Many previous administrations are complicit. Our government just waits 80+ years to declassify operations until the people who would be personally outraged are deceased, and the rest just see it as history.

    If former US military spoke candidly to new recruits prior to enlistment, we’d have no one in our armed forces.

  • Grimtuck@lemmy.world
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    The US government aren’t even recognising their own judiciary let alone an international one.

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    Even before the first bomb was dropped, people were saying that going into Iraq would create more terrorists; the radical Left Village Voice newspaper ran a cartoon where Saddam and Osama were buddy cops who overcame their differences to take on the Big Bad. W spent $5 trillion to make sure kids in the Mid East would grow up reading about Abu Ghraib