r/comics • u/aostlund27 A Penny For Your Thoughts • 29d ago

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u/bantha121 29d ago

The Taliban wasn't in Iraq, they were in Afghanistan

Iraq was insurgents

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u/gopher1409 29d ago

Iraqi Freedom was against Saddam for the WMDs that weren’t real.

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u/bantha121 29d ago

It was certainly against Saddam, but the IEDs were largely the insurgency

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u/gopher1409 29d ago

Yeah sorry, I was agreeing that it wasn’t the Taliban.

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u/Xerorei 28d ago

Oh no they were, just that they were chemical, and we gave them to him to fight Iran in the 90's.

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u/Icy_Fish_2154 29d ago

The most certainly did find WMDs in Iraq.

Of course, all of them were stamped "Made in America" and had Reagan's name on the paperwork.

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u/Xerorei 28d ago

Bush Sr's name, not Regan's.

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u/Icy_Fish_2154 28d ago

That's what I get for going off memory. I thought the WMDs predated Desert Shield by enough it had to be Reagan for the WMDs sold to put down the Kurds.

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u/Xerorei 28d ago

Ah it's fine, old age gets us in subtle ways.

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u/atridir 28d ago

If only they went with bringing him to justice for bombing a city of ~50k of his own civilians with chemical weapons in the ‘80s….it would have been difficult to argue against that justification for the war.

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u/Crashbrennan 29d ago

They were. Chemical weapons are WMDs. Bush just deliberately traded on the fact that everyone hears "WMDs" and assumes that means nukes.

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u/gopher1409 29d ago

The public knew it was mostly chemical weapons. But yes, they sold the invasion on dirty bombs and yellow-cake.

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u/Xerorei 28d ago

That STILL doesn't invalidate his statement.

Chemical weapons ARE WMDs.

Just not the explodey, irradiate the land for ten thousand years kind.

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u/scrotumscab 29d ago

Nuh uh. Faux News said the towelEbans everywhir

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u/Throw_away_away55 29d ago

ISIS and ISIL in Iraq

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u/Xerorei 28d ago

They were in both.

ISIL grew out of the remains of Al-Qaeda that were In Iraq.

So basically a spiky caterpillar cocooning and coming out an explosive butterfly of hatred.

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u/phredphlintstones 29d ago

They were in Afghanistan. They're still there, be they were there, too

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u/The_Pastmaster 29d ago

Alright. It's been 15 years.

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u/Historical_Shop_3315 29d ago

So we shouldn't have to fight the propaganda disinformation anymore as the facts are as clear as they ever will be. Then clearly point out how bad the media is and that's it's even worse today.

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u/Xerorei 28d ago

If you ever need to realize just how effective our American propaganda machine is.

The Russians copied us after WW2.

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u/The_Pastmaster 29d ago

WTF are you on about? I just acknowledged that it's been awhile and I don't remember the detail of the war any more.

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u/Historical_Shop_3315 28d ago

That's how the media operates. They want you to focus on the current controversy with many unknown and not how they have been lying to the American public for decades without consequence

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u/atridir 28d ago

Jihadist Islamists also works….

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u/Xerorei 28d ago

The Taliban (ISIL) are also insurgents.

An insurgent is anyone who rebels against authority or an authortative government, typically with acts of extreme violence.

Below is the definition as a noun.

A rebel or freedom fighter who takes part in armed resistance against their own country's government or authorities.