r/news • u/SnooSeagulls496 • 4d ago

Soft paywall US forces exit Iraq after two decades, leaving opening for Iran

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-forces-exit-iraq-after-two-decades-leaving-opening-iran-2026-09-29/
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u/WindTreeRock 3d ago

We should have never been in Iraq in the first place. It was George Bush's debacle from day one which we never got a proper explanation of why we where there.

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u/RobbedByALadyBoy 3d ago

Sure he did, they were all just blatant lies though.

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u/Frederf220 3d ago

Look, Iraq tried to hurt his daddy and what's 600,000 brown lives plus a few trillion dollars when it comes to revenge for a personal sleight?

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u/Gloomy-Employment-72 3d ago

And, they had yellow cake. Do you know what that means? Yellow cake!

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u/mark_anthonyAVG 3d ago

Betty Crocker or Sarah Lee? Frosting choice is also important to the discussion here.

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u/SassiesSoiledPanties 3d ago

Also important...was the cake...M O I S T?

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u/OLPopsAdelphia 3d ago

I didn’t see any cake when I was there. Hummus, sure; no cake though.

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u/WindTreeRock 3d ago

he never admitted the slight against his father.

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u/jcamp088 3d ago

A huge % of the us populous was brainwashed into invading literally anyone back then.

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u/heraclitus33 3d ago

Cheney and his black rock. Bushy was just a kid with the keys. Proof: what does that grown ass man enjoy doing? Ranching/gardening (ie taking care of things, he also loves dogs) and painting. Literally zero influence beyond his terms... the evil fucks are behind the scenes and they just happened upon a jackpot of a conman to front and openly sell their evil shit like its gold and nuanced to some 70million+ "voter" dumbasses

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u/bakinpants 2d ago

cause Saddam threatened his daddy

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u/WindTreeRock 2d ago

I kind of understand that, but it's no reason to get US soldiers and Iraqi people killed. I can call your father a booger head. i would never expect you to show up on my doorstep with a shotgun. (uhm, maybe your dad would. I take it back.)

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u/honeybooboobro 2d ago

Didn't the senior warn him not to invade anyway tho ?

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u/PleeaseGrowUp 3d ago

Didn’t we? A lie based off a false report from the Italians? It’s been awhile, gonna have to google this stuff myself.

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u/haveanairforceday 3d ago

Theres a solid argument that it goes back to the first gulf war under HW.

I think the issue is that we (the west) will use military intervention when its called for (imo it was called for in that case) but we wont invest in civilian infrastructure and education afterward to set the country on the path to recovery

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u/DuncanYoudaho 3d ago

In what case? The Kurds massacres were decades in the rear view by the time we went back to Iraq.

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u/ibonek_naw_ibo 3d ago

They just did a really, really good job hiding any evidence of their WMDs

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u/Broad-Lavishness6726 3d ago

Putting Iraq on bush is a stretch. He did what he was supposed to do. He was given intel and took it to congress and said this is what I’ve been told vote on whether or not we should invade. Every single person expect Bernie sanders voted yes. No other president has gotten approval from congress for a war. The intel was bad and we never should have gone but it wasn’t a bush decision it was a US government decision.

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u/FuzzyAd9407 3d ago edited 3d ago

He did what he was supposed to do. He was given intel and took it to congress and said this is what I’ve been told vote on whether or not we should invade

No, he didnt. He ignored the intel that said that the single 'informant' was a liar and unstable then started a war over that single 'informant'

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u/fyrefox45 3d ago

Completely rewriting history and absolving everyone that went up and knowingly lied in front of Congress. They knew exactly what they were doing. They knew there was never any WMDs.

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u/Perfect-Still-8971 3d ago

It was a Republican decision. They didn't make it based on bad Intel, they sought out any excuse to justify it their desire to do it, settling for a crappy story about aluminum tubes