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🦀🦀 War criminal Dick Cheney dies 🦀🦀 (edition.cnn.com)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net to c/news@hexbear.net

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Go fuck yourself, Mr. Cheney.

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[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 87 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

Gotta say I'm livid about that article synopsis

helped lead the country into the ill-fated Iraq war on faulty assumptions

Really, that's what we're calling that now? Just a little 'oopsie' where nobody was culpable, not even the monsters leading the charge and fabricating the evidence?

[–] RustyVenture@hexbear.net 51 points 3 days ago

citations-needed The Always Stumbling US Empire

[–] CommunistCuddlefish@hexbear.net 44 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The Iraq War was a success for the US. It achieved its minimalist goals of destabilizing the region, which still pays dividends to this day. I don't think Syria would have fallen if not for ISIS, which the US invasion of Iraq basically created.

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But, for AmeriKKKan politicians and journalists to admit that would be to reveal how evil they are.

[–] SmithrunHills@hexbear.net 28 points 3 days ago

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago

What's a little powell-propaganda between new Pearl Harbors?

The group, the Project for the New American Century, or PNAC, was founded in 1997. Among its supporters were three Republican former officials who were sitting out the Democratic presidency of Bill Clinton: Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney and Paul Wolfowitz.

In open letters to Clinton and GOP congressional leaders the next year, the group called for "the removal of Saddam Hussein's regime from power" and a shift toward a more assertive U.S. policy in the Middle East, including the use of force if necessary to unseat Saddam.

And in a report just before the 2000 election that would bring Bush to power, the group predicted that the shift would come about slowly, unless there were "some catastrophic and catalyzing event, like a new Pearl Harbor."

That event came on Sept. 11, 2001. By that time, Cheney was vice president, Rumsfeld was secretary of defense, and Wolfowitz his deputy at the Pentagon.