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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
No daddy issues, no WMD (pretext, entirely). The War in Iraq was a device to control a strategic base for operations in the middle east. And one that would provide a decent enough amount of oil to pay for itself, and then some.
I was also a message - "this is what we do to dictators who refuse to toe our line."
Things didn't work out as planned.
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Bingo. The best defense to us as bellicose religious bigots is probably that we were just being incompetent imperialists.
And if we're arguing with someone who is suspicious of this, who thinks maybe the most powerful country in the world couldn't be so stupid or incompetent, who points out we were getting the oil and pretty much everything else we wanted before the invasion, we can just point out that we would, of course, invade any other oil country that didn't roll over like a puppy when we came in the room, like if socialists took over Venezuela or something ...
Or maybe it's best for us to just try to change the subject if this particular conversation comes up. Or go back to the Daddy issues.
