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ecib  ·  4051 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why Was the Biggest Protest in World History Ignored?

I actually supported the invasion of Afghanistan. Taliban doesn't want to hand over Bin Laden? Alright, fuck you and get ready for us to come in and take him (although even here, I've read some damning claims that we could have gotten them to hand him over...not sure completely though, this is still a little murky to me). I'm not a pacifist, and I'm all for going after people and orgs that have attacked and declared war on us (where it makes sense to do so).

But the Iraq war had nothing to do with 911 and zero to do with terrorists...except for all of the terrorists we created there and invited there, where it is now a fully operational arena for some of the worst groups on the globe which it was not under Saddam's authoritarian fist. God the Bush administration was a complete foreign policy clusterfuck.