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We’re at War with Iran Because We Never Punished Bush for Iraq

It’s been three months since the United States and Israel launched their joint attack on Iran on February 28, assassinating Iran’s head of state and slaughtering schoolchildren in Minab. Ever since, the war against Iran has been an unfolding catastrophe. Day after day, we’ve seen U.S. soldiers coming home in coffins, an estimated 2,100 civilian deaths (and rising) across the region, a supposed “ceasefire” in April where the U.S. has continued striking southern Iran anyway, and an intractable blockade of the Strait of Hormuz that has spiked global energy prices, worsening the cost-of-living crisis for ordinary people everywhere. In the press, the emerging consensus is that Trump’s war is a failure on strategic terms. Less attention has been paid to the more basic fact: that the war is simply wrong, regardless of how successful or unsuccessful it might be.


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[-] EtAl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 9 hours ago

W Bush has to look at his own paintings for hours every day. It's not the punishment he deserves, but it's something.

[-] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 hours ago

"We don't know how things got worse out of a sudden. We didn't try anything and we're all out of options. Must blame someone else for all our problems we created."

is the motto

[-] AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 hours ago

May be too late for Iran, but it's not too late to "punish" Bush.

[-] Skyrmir@lemmy.world 16 points 15 hours ago

Bush went into Iraq because we never punished Reagan for Iran-Contra.

Reagan got away with Iran Contra because we never punished Nixon for Watergate.

Nixon got away with Watergate because we never punished Johnson for the Gulf of Tonkin.

[-] TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 10 points 12 hours ago

Bush jr went into Iraq because we never punished Bush sr

Bush sr went into Iraq because we never punished Reagan for Iran-Contra.

Reagan got away with Iran Contra because we never punished Nixon for Watergate.

Nixon got away with Watergate because we never punished Johnson for the Gulf of Tonkin.

You left out a whole Bush!

[-] Skyrmir@lemmy.world 7 points 12 hours ago

You mean the guy that had just finished running the CIA that brokered the Iran Contra deal during Reagan.

[-] Chulk@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 hours ago

And then used his powers as president to grant unconditional pardons to multiple CIA agents involved in the Iran Contra affair. Thus, avoiding any testimony that would implicate him.

[-] j5y7@sh.itjust.works 9 points 14 hours ago

We're at war with Iran because billionaires make money from it.

[-] plyth@feddit.org 1 points 7 hours ago

We’re at war with Iran because China.

[-] deft@lemmy.wtf 7 points 14 hours ago

We're at war with Iran so nobody thinks about Trump being a pedophile

[-] MyVeryRealName@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

Hell, y'all voted for Bush's party right after Obama left.

[-] Wataba@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 hours ago

Literally shifting blame from anywhere but voters allowing a pedophile and his Nazi backers to seize power.

[-] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe 0 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Yeah, but Obama was looking forwards, not backwards.

The upper class have class consciousness. What about you?

[-] CaliforniaSober@lemmy.ca 0 points 13 hours ago

You have a republican stacked Supreme Court making the entire endeavor impossible. And you choose to blame a single executive?

Yea yea it’s obamas fault, not republicans in congress preventing him from even nominating a judge, or those same judges who fucked off and ruined democracy after obamas term?

Do you have a concept of fault?

[-] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe 0 points 12 hours ago

Do you have a concept of justice?

How did Obama let Bush off the hook?

[-] CaliforniaSober@lemmy.ca 0 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

I never said he did. Pay attention.

Like why the hell did you mention the looking forward shit only to yell at me about how you think I think Obama didn’t? You really seem confused.

Obama didn’t let bush of the hook, so much as republicans in congress prevented accountability. Almost just as much as they prevented Obama from even exercising his executive right in nominating a Supreme Court judge.

Anyone blaming Obama sounds fucking moronic and ignorant of the times and Mitch McConnell.

[-] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe 1 points 12 hours ago

Obama literally said “we’re looking forwards, not backwards.” In reference to investigating Bush’s crimes.

He covered-up Bush’s crimes. Nearly in his own words.

How much more obvious could this be?

[-] CaliforniaSober@lemmy.ca 0 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

“How did Obama let bush off the hook?”

What the fuck are you posting then?

Then why are you wasting time asking me about Obama’s action when you just said that!

Also AGAIN Obama didn’t do that as much as REPUBLICANS prevented any accountability.

Why do you think Trump has been impeached twice yet never suffered consequences? Hint those consequences require republicans to do the right thing and yet here we are… Impeachment is half political and half legal. When you get to legal consequence suddenly republicans lose a spine. Hence Trump being impeached but never convicted in the senate.

That’s nothing to do with Obama and you’re a fucking idiot to conflate the issues.

How much more obvious does your ignorance need to be…?

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