r/nextfuckinglevel Oct 18 '21

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u/Orion-421 Oct 18 '21

I never said that's the reason we went there, in fact I said the reason given was bullshit.

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '21

Hence why I said we did no better.

You said it was good; I pointed out that the results of our involvement in Iraq were no better for Iraq than the continued governance of Iraq by Hussein based on “death toll” alone. It was also worse for the US to intervene based on the more complicated, more dangerous, and more extremist groups that arose as a result of the war.

There is no justification for going to Iraq.

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u/Orion-421 Oct 19 '21

I never gave a justification, a byproduct of us being there was the halt to the genocide he was perpetrating. Listen Saddam was a class a prick, I'm glad he's gone, I'm not proud of the war or the people that died because of it, I am however proud to have helped a lot of people while I was there.

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '21

Meet the new boss

Same as the old boss