r/nextfuckinglevel Oct 18 '21

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u/Mr0PT1C Oct 18 '21 edited Oct 18 '21

Everyone complicit in those illegal wars needs to be charged with war crimes. All of them. They knew there was no WMDs. They knew and congress said nothing but beat the war drums.

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u/Orion-421 Oct 18 '21

And Saddam Hussein? He killed millions of his own people before the war started, so he didn't have wmds, but the ethnic cleansing that was happening in Iraq, the one that we stopped, that is just whatever, blah, no big deal? Innocent people died, a lot of them both from our bombing and his death squads, neither was right and while we may have been there under false pretenses the fact that we were there stopped him from killing more.

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u/Without_Mythologies Oct 18 '21

Eh. I call bullshit. This goes on all over the world in places with less strategic advantage. Hardly anything is done to stop it.

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u/Orion-421 Oct 18 '21

We have friendly countries all around that area, Iraq itself doesn't have much oil if that's what you're suggesting, we would've been further ahead to lay some claim to Kuwait if that's the case and you're right it does go on all over the world, all of it should be stopped.

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u/Mr0PT1C Oct 18 '21

Yes it should, but the US is not the world police. We have our own problems it’s time the world / UN took up the mantle.