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Re:Calling all pirates: This US lawmaker wants you to seize ... by igravious on Monday March 07, 2022 @08:36AM (#30587540)
> like Hussein's Iraq was

Bull.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijackers_in_the_September_11_...

“The hijackers in the September 11 attacks were 19 men affiliated with the militant Islamist group al-Qaeda. They hailed from four countries; fifteen of them were citizens of Saudi Arabia, two were from the United Arab Emirates, one was from Lebanon, and one from Egypt.”

Iraq is not mentioned even once in the article.

Do not attempt to shift the goal posts. The 2003 invasion of Iraq was specifically tied to Saddam's possession of WMDs (demonstrably false) and his willingness to use them (therefore also false), and the constant linking of Iraq to 9/11 (fake news).

transcript of US General Wesley Clark on the Iraq Invasion | American War Generals (2014) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcWs4TFSjrY

   00:04 I got called in by an officer on the
   00:07 Joint Staff who told me that he said you
   00:09 know we're gonna invade Iraq. I said but
   00:11 why? And he said I don't know he said I
   00:15 guess because we don't know what else to
   00:17 do. But in fact the why of it went back a
   00:21 decade to the spring of 1991, it went
   00:26 back to the argument inside the
   00:28 Republican Party about whether or not
   00:31 the Gulf War should have ended with the
   00:35 capture of Baghdad and the overthrow of
   00:37 Saddam Hussein. And in 1991 when I talked
   00:40 to secretary Wolfowitz you know he said
   00:42 we didn't get rid of Saddam Hussein and
   00:44 and we should have, he said we've only
   00:47 got five or 10 years to clean up the
   00:51 Middle East these old Soviet surrogate
   00:54 regimes like Syria and Iraq get rid of
   00:56 them before the next superpower comes
   00:59 along the challenges
This is the undisputed historical reality. These are not hidden truths, this is public knowledge. Anybody intimating otherwise is either deliberately misconstruing past events to suit their own version of how they want things to be or is a useful idiot[2] oblivious to the nonsense they are spouting.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2008/de...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot

Re:Calling all pirates: This US lawmaker wants you to seize ... by choko on Monday March 07, 2022 @09:54AM (#30588487)
It's irrelevant in the scope of the discussion. Iraq '03 was wrong, and the current Russian invasion of a democratic country is wrong.
Re:Calling all pirates: This US lawmaker wants you to seize ... by igravious on Monday March 07, 2022 @10:46AM (#30589117)
> It's irrelevant in the scope of the discussion.

1. It was relevant to the point being made further up :- that is to say, on the world stage, might unfortunately makes right

2. You don't get to police the boundaries of what I choose to respond to.

> Iraq '03 was wrong, and the current Russian invasion of a democratic country is wrong.

Which was my point. Whether the US does it in Iraq, or Russia does it in Ukraine, or Saudi Arabia does it in Yemen[1][2], or Israel does it in Syria[3]

Which is why I expect we'll see sanctions levied on Saudi Arabia and Israel any day now.

[1] Saudi-led coalition strikes target Yemen capital after drone attack: https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20220214-saudi-led-c...

[2] The Saudi blockade on Yemen is a war crime, and only civilians suffer from it: https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2021/05/24/the-saudi-block...

[2] Syria: Two civilians killed in Israeli attack near Damascus: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/7/syria-two-civilians-... “Since war broke out in Syria in 2011, Israel has carried out hundreds of air attacks inside the country, targeting government positions as well as allied Iran-backed forces and fighters of the Shia group Hezbollah.”