cheese_greater@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.ca · edit-211 days agoWhat do you think is the single/foremost compelling motivation for the Iraq War?message-squaremessage-square23linkfedilinkarrow-up114arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up114arrow-down1message-squareWhat do you think is the single/foremost compelling motivation for the Iraq War?cheese_greater@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.ca · edit-211 days agomessage-square23linkfedilinkfile-text
I think the petrodollar thing is interesting (Iraq switched to using euros in exchange for oil or something)
minus-squaredumples@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·11 days agoThe greatest reasons? That Bush Jr. was mad that Bush Sr. didn’t remove Saddam. He wanted to go to war to show his daddy
minus-squareKeeponstalin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·11 days agoNot to mention that Saddam was also our guy before we used him for as a reason for the second invasion
minus-squarecheese_greater@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 days agoAre their cocktail night photos of Saddam and The West in happier times?
minus-squareKeeponstalin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·8 days agohttps://jacobin.com/2024/03/iraq-war-blowback-memory-dig For a significantly more detailed account, see Blowback Season 1 (sources on their website) https://blowback.show/
Really? Crazy
The greatest reasons? That Bush Jr. was mad that Bush Sr. didn’t remove Saddam. He wanted to go to war to show his daddy
Not to mention that Saddam was also our guy before we used him for as a reason for the second invasion
Are their cocktail night photos of Saddam and The West in happier times?
https://jacobin.com/2024/03/iraq-war-blowback-memory-dig
For a significantly more detailed account, see Blowback Season 1 (sources on their website)
https://blowback.show/