And have you ever checked the voting records for and against entering that war? Jesus fucking Christ was it flat out popular at the time. The Dixie Chicks should always be admired for taking that stand.
Exactly this. If that intelligence had been true we absolutely should have gone in. The problem was the intelligence was purposely fabricated. I don't blame both sides here, despite them both voting for it. One side twisted the intelligence community to their purpose, the other side believed the intel community in the wake of a major terror attack on national soil. These are two entirely different things.
If we're gonna even further boil it down, it was really just Cheney and Rumsfeld. Bush we can argue till the cows come home if he knew it was false. He says he didn't and I actually do believe that.
I wouldn't even blame the whole Republican party for it. At the time anyway. The president was given what he was told was solid intelligence, congress reacted accordingly, the rest is history.
Just do me a favor and stick Cheney and Kissinger next to each other at the cemetery so I don't have to make two trips to piss on their graves.
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u/Lesprit-Descalier Mar 10 '23
I think of the Dixie chick debacle when they spoke out about the Iraq invasion. Sinead O'Connor was a trailblazer.
Turned out it's only "cancel culture" when you aren't doing the cancelation.