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Re:Wealthy people are renouncing American citizenship by walkhour on Friday August 06, 2021 @05:53AM (#28085097)
> You know Bush isn't president anymore, right? That hasn't been a a popular (and I would say erroneous, even when it was popular) talking point for more than a decade.

The US performed military operations in eight different countries just during the Obama administration, some of the conflicts where not inherited, like the war in Syria and Yemen.

Those wars were payed by the US citizens regardless of whether they agreed with the war or not.

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Re:Wealthy people are renouncing American citizenship by grumblenum on Friday August 06, 2021 @11:53AM (#28088887)
Obama invaded Syria "in the name of Christ and oil profits"? That justification was a myth, even when the Trotskyites-cum-Conservatives asserted it as truth 15 years ago.

Creating a belt of failed states in Central Asia has been a long-standing policy, if Wesley Clark is to be believed. I can only speculate what the real goals are, but "because Jesus" or "because Bush is dumb" was always fodder for the low-info crowd who watched the Daily Show.

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Re:Wealthy people are renouncing American citizenship by fourthwaveska on Friday August 06, 2021 @02:24PM (#28091066)
> Obama invaded Syria "in the name of Christ and oil profits"? That justification was a myth, even when the Trotskyites-cum-Conservatives asserted it as truth 15 years ago.

Citation needed.

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