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Peter

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if we had caught wind of Saddam’s Republican Guard doing shit like this even once it would have been paraded across the evening news repeatedly as proof of the regime’s brutality and a justification for war

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Taka Hanazawa's avatar Taka Hanazawa @takahanazawa.bsky.social
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"Most moral army in the middle east" tho

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Shadrach North's avatar Shadrach North @shadrachnorth.bsky.social
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Are you sure Saddam wouldn't have been asked to address a joint session of Congress?

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Krysz 's avatar Krysz @edwoodk.bsky.social
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IDF are void of humanity. They bartered their souls for revenge.

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Anyone with IDF on their resume is having second thoughts...

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Nicki Stephens 's avatar Nicki Stephens @nicki2910.bsky.social
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History is written by two different biases. In the military and political context, the view is often warped by the trope of false information and propaganda.

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What Would John Brown Do?'s avatar What Would John Brown Do? @johnbrownsbody.bsky.social
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Or Hamas…

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Username Taken's avatar Username Taken @sloppysteaks.bsky.social
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I couldn’t conjure up a crueler thing to do if I was somehow rewarded for it in Grand Theft Auto

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Cafe Tel Aviv's avatar Cafe Tel Aviv @cafetelaviv.bsky.social
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MOST MORAL ARMY Strange: How does a country come up with the idea of repeatedly - over decades - describing its army as "the most moral"? And then in practice - over decades - to present a completely different picture?

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Evilsmiff's avatar Evilsmiff @evilsmiff.bsky.social
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Tbf the pictures after his regime gassing the Kurds was probably enough. Then again, there’s been plenty of pictures of Palestinian dead and that’s moved the media position not a jot.

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Old Splice.'s avatar Old Splice. @phoopherah.bsky.social
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Yeah but see, Iraq isn't geographically bound to American Christofascist eschatology, so they're not held to the same uhhh high standards as the IDF. Wait that doesn't seem right, somehow.

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Le Maki's avatar Le Maki @lemaki.bsky.social
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If Blackwater contractors did this in Iraq one time, it would be the iconic photo for Blackwater and Erik Prince. Every kid who lived through the WoT would know the photo; it would have been in Encyclopedia Britannica.

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Noamar Garciachomsky 's avatar Noamar Garciachomsky @kduffchicago.bsky.social
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They're just flaunting it at this point. You can't do student loan forgiveness, you have to pay for Israeli teenagers to fill out a war crimes bingo sheet and then get paid vacation

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Jay Schiavone's avatar Jay Schiavone @jaytingle.bsky.social
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Netanyahu came to Congress to promote invasion of Iraq. "If you take out Saddam, Saddam's regime, I guarantee you that it will have enormous positive reverberations on the region," Netanyahu said.

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Yea but why would your toadie media do that to your allies? Like Americans realize they’re team Axis of Evil, right?

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Another Matt 's avatar Another Matt @mattlav83.bsky.social
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Or the Russians in Ukraine right now!

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