Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-23 days agoIraq War was preceded by the largest worldwide non-violent protests in history and the war happened anyway.lemmy.blahaj.zoneexternal-linkmessage-square139fedilinkarrow-up11.51Karrow-down126file-text
arrow-up11.49Karrow-down1external-linkIraq War was preceded by the largest worldwide non-violent protests in history and the war happened anyway.lemmy.blahaj.zoneSnot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-23 days agomessage-square139fedilinkfile-text
Those non-violent protests shook them so bad they wanted to charge non-violent Quaker protestors with terrorism.
minus-squareRailing5132@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 days agoNo, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell, Rice, and a bunch of others in the administration championed it. Biden et al supported it. Subtle.
minus-squareleadore@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days agoCongress basically believed what they were told by the warmongers.
minus-squareɔiƚoxɘup@infosec.publinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 days agoHuh, I thought he was critical in making the case. I’m no political historian tho.
IIRC, Biden championed that, right?
No, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell, Rice, and a bunch of others in the administration championed it. Biden et al supported it. Subtle.
Congress basically believed what they were told by the warmongers.
Huh, I thought he was critical in making the case. I’m no political historian tho.
Barbara Lee did NOT support it