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minus-squareDragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafelinkfedilinkarrow-up49arrow-down6·1 year agoI care more about the million Iraqis we murdered or at least enabled the death of in a global temper tantrum as we set the stage for a headlong descent into fascism.
minus-squareKecessa@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up15·edit-21 year agoPeople don’t think much about Afghanistan already, yet that’s the country that got invaded first after 9/11
minus-squareneocamel@lemmy.studiolinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down2·1 year agoTo be fair, Afghanistan was actually involved in the 9/11 plot, unlike Iraq.
minus-squareKecessa@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down2·1 year agoYes, all 45 000 civilians killed by the US military were involved… https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/human/civilians
minus-squaredingleberry@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·1 year agoFunny, because it turned out to be Saudis. And Bin Laden himself was bunkered in Pakistan.
minus-squareDragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoIt simply killed many fewer people with an at least half-assed justification, instead of an outright lie to justify a neocrusade.
minus-squareKecessa@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoTurns out it was also a lie in Afghanistan and the people who financed ObL must be laughing their ass off about it!
I care more about the million Iraqis we murdered or at least enabled the death of in a global temper tantrum as we set the stage for a headlong descent into fascism.
People don’t think much about Afghanistan already, yet that’s the country that got invaded first after 9/11
To be fair, Afghanistan was actually involved in the 9/11 plot, unlike Iraq.
Yes, all 45 000 civilians killed by the US military were involved…
https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/human/civilians
Funny, because it turned out to be Saudis. And Bin Laden himself was bunkered in Pakistan.
It simply killed many fewer people with an at least half-assed justification, instead of an outright lie to justify a neocrusade.
Turns out it was also a lie in Afghanistan and the people who financed ObL must be laughing their ass off about it!