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"Also if Russia can be banned from the Olympics for invading Ukraine, then the USA should have been banned from all the Olympics that occurred when we were in Iraq. It's an ice cold third-worldist take by this point but it seems some lives do matter more than others to the 'decision-makers' of the wo"
"It's gonna make the Ukraine shit look tame by comparison. And Redditors who are either too young to remember Iraq or didn't learn any lessons from it are going to show us their support for declaring another war they're never going to fight themselves."
"They clearly want to be living in some sort of Denmark of the Middle East and are distressed at the fact their reputation is now closer to that of Saddam's Iraq."
"Not that it should necessarily matter, but Iran is nothing like Iraq, Afghanistan, or even the Gulf."
"Remembering Abeer Qassim Al-Janabi, who was gang-raped and murdered by US soldiers in Iraq at age 14. They also murdered her family."
"He enlisted in the military for a lack of options, had been a combat veteran who went to Iraq and had a lingering traumatic brain injury."
"When he was in iraq, he would have one of his youngest soldiers be his driver (in a humvee) which they drove around the city they were occupying. At the time, trash was everywhere, and wild dogs roamed the streets. Without warning, my squad leader would point to a stray dog and order the young soldi"
"Imagine if 9/11 never happened, and Afghanistan and especially Iraq didn't happen either. Iraq also caused the Arab spring and ISIS to be a thing which resulted in a massive refugee crisis in Europe and subsequently Brexit."
"Iraq, failure
Afghanistan, failure
Korea, failure
Vietnam, failure
Cuba, failure
How do US leaders keep falling for this given their track record?"
"Levantine/Iraqi zillenial grifters living in Dubai who found insanely overpriced 'conscious' Arab streetwear brands, post like Timothee Chalamet and get their gf called Lara/Lana/Yara/Laila to model for their brand."
"The US invades Iran, enacts 'regime change' that ensures the country turns into another Iraq or Syria, another country is left shattered on the anvil of imperialism"
"You can take people who have lived for generations in tight knit tribes in rural Pakistan, or nomadic Bedouins from the deserts of western Iraq, bring them to a housing estate in Bradford or an apartment complex in Düsseldorf, leave them there permanently, and everything will be fine."
"I was in 2nd grade, and my mom was engaged to a guy in the Air Force. He had been deployed to Iraq and would send my little brother and me care packages, letters, and talk to us on the phone. Because we were both young, he only told us about the good things, so my perception of what Iraq was like at"
"On the war front, hundreds were killed this week in many separate incidents in places such as Syria, Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Mozambique, South Sudan, Niger, and the Congo."
"If I was invaded by a country in the same way Iraq or Afghanistan were invaded, I would 100 percent Viet Cong their ass. Would I personally get anyone before being shot to pieces? Probably not. God damn would i try though."
"This is a scene about the chaos of trying to man vehicle checkpoints deep behind enemy lines. It foreshadowed what would come during the occupation of Iraq."
"The Palestinian genocide is well over 300-400k deaths per the same medical journal, the Lancet, that gave the true Iraq death count. The true Iraq death count was delayed until the world had to acknowledge."
"I made a joke to my friend's mom about how I had dated a few Lebanese girls that were too materialistic, and she went on to breakdown the stereotypes of the women in every other Middle Eastern country, culminating with how Iraqi women are actually the best and smartest."
"For the Iraqi bombings, Mossad agent proposed in 1949 that bombs be thrown into Jewish-frequented places and leaflets circulated to push Iraqi Jews toward aliyah (emigration to Israel). It then describes an April 1950 grenade attack on a Jewish café in Baghdad followed by leaflets urging Jews to 'hu"
"Bush had disastrous wars in Afghanistan and especially Iraq, the 2008 recession, No Child Left Behind, was even moreso opposed to abortion rights, PATRIOT Act, more tax cuts for rich people, ran on banning gay marriage nationally, torture, etc yet he seems to have been totally rehabilitated."
"I live in the most liberal country on earth (Canada) and it is also the most authoritarian and invasive country on earth ,i got investigated in the airport for 20 minuets by this fat cunt because i visited family in iraq for two weeks"
"A lot of the footage coming out of Ukraine is awfully reminiscent of the footage we saw from Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.. Im not trying to say the details of each invasion are at all similar, speaking strictly in terms of optics here."
"Instead of playing this game every year, should I just move to Arizona? Iraq?"
"There was some massacring and protesting done in Iraq and Syria, Iran seized a Korean (South) boat and started enriching Uranium, and another massacre also happened in nearby Pakistan."
"https://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/business/the-media-business-hollywood-toning-down-ads-and-froth-during-war.html - NYT story about Hollywood during the invasion of Iraq"
"We've had similar coverage in the past for things like desert storm and the invasion of Iraq, but never anything on this level of constant coverage and updates."
"We spent 20 years dicking around in Afghanistan and Iraq, many instances of two generations of the same family fighting in the same places. And what came out of it, media wise? One decent miniseries (generation kill), couple movies, and I assume a couple b grade video games?"
"If your justification for invading a country is that they have WMDs, then you better find WMDs. If your justification for invading a country is that they have drugs, then you're in the clear, because every country on the planet will have piles of drugs somewhere in it."
"Really, it'll be more like Iraq or Syria seen as its really about the nordstream pipeline and has nothing to do with protecting poor downtrodden Ukraine from the evil tyrant dictator Putin."
"NATO's offensive wars in Yugoslavia, Libya, and Iraq slaughtered millions of people. The Soviet Union collapsed three decades ago."
"When will we start to see movies of the likes of Taxi Driver about misdirected youths killing their peers, or anti-war style Vietnam movies about Iraq and Afghanistan if ever?"
"Now I feel stupid because I actually worried about her and missed my train to work over this and also feel bad for doubting her whole story but also feel sorta racist (the guy in question is a refugee from Iraq) for thinking "Lol what did u expect would happen, that he respects your boundaries after"
"Assad's dad took power a year after Gadaffi, 2 years after the Ba'ath party, with Saddam as second-in-command, took over Iraq for the final time. Yet another middle-eastern domino has fallen, crazy"
"Even funnier when you realise Iraq, Syria and Lebanon are also on the Iranian side."
"It seems like after taking a 5 year hiatus from YouTube after his retirement ceremony he's been hit with a wave of nostalghia and is posting slideshows from his spec ops tour in Iraq set to Green Day alongside the 9/11 clip."
"Paul Bremer is an obscure State Department official who, between 2003 and 2004, had more power over Iraq than Saddam Hussein ever did because he ran the coalition government."
"We came of age in the post-9/11 world and watched the establishments of both parties coalesce around Iraq and globalcapitalism."
"He would be able to mansplain about the military, Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan as well."
"If your justification for invading a country is that they have WMDs, then you better find WMDs."
"Human rights were not real in Gaza, Bosnia, Chechnya, Myanmar, Xinjiang, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, or many other places where we have mutely watched mass atrocities take place"