Comments by "" (@titteryenot4524) on "The Iraq invasion and its consequences, with 20 years of hindsight - BBC Newsnight" video.

  1. This was America doing what America does since about 1776. At the time justified as being all about Iraq’s (non-existent) WMDs – or other purported goals, such as a desire to “spread democracy” or satisfy the oil or Israel lobbies; the real reason the Bush administration invaded Iraq was the same reason Truman dropped (unnecessarily) the atomic bomb on Nagasaki and Hiroshima: its demonstration effect. As with this latter barbaric, immoral atrocity, which was intended to send a post-WW2 message to the rest of the world (particularly the USSR) of “don’t mess with us, or else”, a quick and decisive victory in the heart of the Arab world would send a message to all countries, especially to recalcitrant regimes such as Syria, Libya, Iran, or North Korea, that American hegemony was here to stay.
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  2. She’s looking her age these days, though.
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  3.  @TheSMR1969  Hmmm … 🤔
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