I hope I'm wrong (and might very well be), but it feels like this shit is getting more and more inevitable.
If not today, likely within the month.
I didn't vote for this. I actually voted against this.
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Worse. The propaganda is more inept.
At least, allegedly, we went after Saddam because he had WMDs and could have killed millions of Americans. We're going after Iran because...they're mean to protestors?! It's just so fucking stupid. The whole thing is so fucking stupid.
Not even close. He never had them. And I knew that myself when I was in Kuwait in the late 90's. Same time that he kicked the inspectors out. We never found any evidence he had WMD's. All that BS is from 'Curveball'. All manufactured. Kill millions of Americans? That's quite laughable.
The only thing he may have been 'guilty' of is contracting with a French aerospace firm to build a long range missile launch system. One that could easily hit Israel. Our 'greatest ally' simply found that unacceptable.
Read what you quoted again. I said "allegedly," not that I thought he had them. I'm just saying that the existential threat of the propaganda with WMDs was much more impressive and actionable than the idea that Iran might not do the whole 'human rights' thing in the same way we allegedly do.
That's it. I'm not saying there were WMDs. Hell, at the time, I was a liberal, literally out there on the streets waving signs, probably about no blood for oil or some shit.
This is one of the best ways to spot lies and liars. If they're not logically consistent in their actions and beliefs, it means they're lying.
For example, if their outward stated purpose for attacking Iran is because "gotta protect the downtrodden protestors", then they're lying, because if that were true and they were logically consistent, we'd have to be engaged all over the planet to help the poor downtrodden folk. We haven't done that, so they're hypocrites only telling slightly plausible lies to fool the gullible.
Another example, if they claim the attack on Iran is about denuclearization, then they're lying, because if denuclearization of dangerous nations was a priority, we'd have attacked Israel decades ago, and assuming their neocon propaganda to be true, we'd also attack Russia, China, Korth Korea, and Pakistan. We haven't done these things, so it's an obvious hypocrisy and lie.
This is why logic and consistency are so crucial for us. It's not necessarily to help convince normies in arguments, but to help us spot lies and liars.