Mentions (25)
"Getting arrested fucked my life up. It turned me from a libtard into something far more intense. The ACLU helped expung my record but I still got my ass kicked by riot police, spent 2 days in jail, and did 120 hours community service."
"The Iraq war wasn't because of weapons of mass destruction. It wasn't because of 9/11. It wasn't because of oil. It was because under Saddam Hussein, Iraq was seen as a major security threat to Israel."
"It makes we wonder what the point of the post-WW2 economic prosperity if this was the generation it produced. All they'll be remembered for is ushering in Reaganism and the Iraq War, along with being malevolent scum fucks."
"My best friend growing up was of Iraqi descent. His grandfather back home was killed when American soldiers broke into his home and killed him while he was asleep and freaking out in fear. That isn't even a minuscule fraction of the emotional damage and lives that were taken. And all that for what? "
"While sorting through them, I overheard the cashier tell a customer that after the husband had passed, his widow had immediately moved away. Then I stumbled on this note mixed in with the photos. It was gut wrenching. It felt like reading a piece of history that I shouldn't have been privy to."
"2003's Iraq War falls into that category I guess but that's a bit of an outlier in modern times. I seem to recall 'Gulf War 2' was floated for a minute but never got off the ground."
"Iraq war: didnt do shit"
"9/11, shipping off a bunch of manufacturing jobs to China, the government blatantly lying to justify the war in Iraq which added trillions of dollars to the national debt and resulted in millions of deaths."
"very excited to see everyone pretend they've been against this from the start"
"Can you imagine how public opinion would have changed for the Iraq War if there was a new Abu Ghraib every day?"
"compared to the consent manufactured for the Iraq war or whatever they were doing during Covid, it just feels like this Iran attack kind of came out of nowhere? Shouldn't they have spent like a few weeks at least (if not months) seeding the public consciousness"
"It seems like something that would happen in today's politics where most people form their opinions based entirely on spite. This has happened very clearly with Vietnam and the boomers who were traumatized saying it was good to own the left."
"9/11, MySpace, Erowid, DVDs, Limewire, making mixtapes for friends, the advent of internet porn, the Iraq War and so much other shit during which we came of age in.."
"I had gone to a WorldCantWait protest downtown (completely oblivious of the RCP) back in middle school, 2006. I brought back some flyers from the protest and taped them in various places in the halls and on lockers. Growing up in a red state, i got some flak for it but was already the awkward ethnic"
"Remember when Colin Powell covered up the UN's Guernica reproduction while making the case for the Iraq War because he thought the optics were all wrong?"
"Bush literally killed 3 million Iraqis. what is wrong with people full stop. he ascribed to the rule of law??? read a fucking book wtaf!!!"
"Over 30,000 have died by suicide, but at least some special operators got to be grifters in the end"
"Why are so many dubiously-sourced articles claiming Trump said something unbelievably ridiculous written by journalists who were cheerleaders for the Iraq War?"
"Anyone else remember people constantly using this exact turn of phrase in the 2000s for how we should just nuke all of the middle east? Swear I heard this phrase CONSTANTLY growing up about Iraq and Afghanistan, haven't heard it in a long time though."
"The boomer mind still does remember the spectacular imagery of the Gulf War, Iraq war and the capture of Saddam that bonded the nation."
"Maybe I'm just uncultured but I can't think of anything else that had as big of a cultural impact and as much longevity. No one even remembers Rock Against Bush."
"Someone my friend dated for a while was in the Marines in Iraq and was some sort of explosives specialist. He literally killed people and children, which is something he cried to my friend about. Upon leaving the military and moving to Portland, this person (call them Mike) now decided that they are"
"Then 9/11 happened when I was in 9th grade english class and overnight criticizing American society wasn't necessary and correct, it was traitorous. When we protested the Iraq war leadup in 2002 it was about 90% fewer people and a lot of shouting was downright threatening."
"One time in high school a jock secretly praised me for opposing the Iraq War"
"making the case for the Iraq War"