Two decades of U.S. policy appear to be rooted in a mistaken understanding of what happened that day. archive

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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    5 months ago

    People seem to forget, people even seemed to forget in 2002 and 2003, that Bush had been talking about finishing what his father started all the way back when he was running for president the first time in 1999. I kept telling people at the time.

    • Aniki 🌱🌿@lemm.ee
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      5 months ago

      I was in the Army then and we all knew it was Daddies War 2.0. I tried to help as many people get out of the Army as I could and then got myself out with full honors and no PTSD. Being a conscientious objector was hilariously easy because everyone knew “fuck bush and fuck the army – I aint fighting.”