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[–] 9 points 1 month ago (1 child)

More obviously than about any war in modern memory

Ooph that's a tough call. More obvious than Iraq 2? "WMDs!!" was even more of a joke in iraq than it currently is in iran, which is saying something.

They literally flew in military transports full of cash which remain unaccounted for, spent by the VP's company and a mercenary oligarch whose cruelty and graft were so well known he then had to change the name of his company twice.

And that's not even getting into the insanely illegal corruption that was the coalition provisional authority.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Right, but they also went out of their way to drum up as much public support as they could first. Granted that it was all lies and greed and corruption, at least they went through the motions of trying to make it a war the people supported.

    Trump didn't even bother to do that much.

    Even though it's just two variations on awful, there is a difference between pretending that the people matter and not even bothering to do that.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    "The best summary of Trump’s trade “philosophy” comes from Trashfuture’s November Kelly, who said that Trump is flipping over the table in a poker game that’s rigged in his favor because he resents having to pretend to play the game at all."

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