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[–] 118 points 1 year ago (30 children)

It's not even the same level of propaganda. This time even US intelligence agencies are saying there are no WMD and that Iran was still years away from being able to have one. On the other hand Netanyahu has spent literal decades saying Iran is going to have nukes by next week.

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  • [–] 52 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    There wasn’t much of a consensus for Iraqi wmds either.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    And it was never supposed to be nukes right? It was like chemical weapons or something.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    that was a back-peddle made by the Murdoch machine nearly a decade later, where they tried to claim some old expired chemical weapons (that the United States gave to Saddam in like the 'eighties) were in fact the fabled WMDs.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago*

    The CIA knew it was bullshit but Cheney wanted there to be WMDs so chose to believe bullshit artists instead, if John Kiriakou is to be believed. One of the only times in history where CIA might have been the good guys.

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    [+] 79 points 1 year ago (3 children)
  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    When a large part of your origin story is being the number one weapons dealer in WW2 with geography conveniently placing you out of range for major infrastructure loss... We really can't be suprised.

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  • [–] 59 points 1 year ago

    They want people uneducated for a reason.

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  • [–] 55 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It wasn’t cool the first fucking time. It was totally obvious.

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  • [–] 42 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It wasn't okay the first time around either. Anyone credulous enough to believe that obvious bullshit shouldn't have been allowed to form legal contracts for their own safety.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It's a lot of the same people who voted Trump in, so that shit tracks.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I was a young teen when it happened and it just seemed ridiculous that anyone would be naïve enough to fall for the extremely obvious lies.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    I'm probably? a couple decades older than you, it's always been this way. My entire life has been Americans convincing other Americans to fuck their own country and futures for culture war bullshit, petty vengeances, and unmitigated greed on the promise that they'll get theirs too only to be left empty handed and worse off than before. Then they vote the same way again while complaining that all the problems are the same. The joke about the definition of insanity applies.

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  • [+] 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    The trick is they all want war, so the PRETEND to fall for it. It is like Susan Collins in Maine who keeps pretending to believe Trump learned his lesson but she knows what he is. No one can be as stupid as she pretends to be and still operate a fork and spoon.

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  • Only Bernie sanders resisted before.

    Who will resist this time

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  • [+] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    military propaganda is hella va drug: top gun maverick, various videos business insider had been posting it on yt on many of the jobs, and plus a bunch of shows.

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  • But they have cake! And it’s yellow…

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