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ChristOnFire13 t1_jea6toz wrote

Reply to comment by HumorUnable in Kabul’s only library for women closes due to Taliban threats and harassment by SinbadMarinarul

The Taliban are in Afghanistan not Iraq. The US invaded Iraq so Dick Cheney and his cronies could make $38 billion. Eisenhower said there are people who want to see the US constantly at war so they can profit and called the Military Industrial Complex.

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clitoram t1_jeajylw wrote

This article and discussion is on Afghanistan…

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HumorUnable t1_jean3yd wrote

The argument that "it was all about the money" stopped sounding smart ten years ago. Now it's just dumb shit that hipsters say to try and seem smarter than everyone else, and doesn't at all take into context the historical facts lmao.

The US invaded Iraq because they saw an opportunity to remove Saddam Hussein from power. He was seen at the time as one of the biggest threats to global security - he'd invaded Kuwait just twelve years before, leading to a global military intervention.

On top of that he was a brutal tyrant who killed hundreds of thousands of his own people, and the Bush government legitimately believed that it was just a matter of time before he would develop weapons of mass destruction to ensure he would never be removed from power. So they thought they had to act to remove him while they had the opportunity, and hopefully build a democracy in the Middle East.

Did they fuck it up? Yes. Did they lie about Iraq already having weapons of mass destruction? Also yes?

But did they invade "tO mAke mOneY". Fuck no.

Go back to elementary school if you need to dumb down complex geopolitical decisions to "they wanted da money" you idiot.

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ChristOnFire13 t1_jeaz8mj wrote

You feel better? Ranting and calling a random stranger an idiot because they have a different opinion than you? Cool story bro.

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