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

OC Airport Security (OC)

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u/The_Pastmaster 29d ago

Yep. It was on the news every time the Taliban blew up a military convoy in Iraq (and Afghanistan?) during the Iraq War..

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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/atridir 29d 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.