Comments by "Orwellian Horseman of the Apocalypse" (@DennisMoore664) on "Once Upon a Time in Iraq (full documentary) | FRONTLINE" video.

  1. The Neo Con's thought they were going to get the equivalent of the Philippines in the Middle East by overthrowing Saddam. The Middle East had other ideas.
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  2. It goes back the the Neo Con's and The Project for the Next American Century. Some of the leaders were the same Republicans who served in the first Bush presidency and came back for the second one which they basically ran the first term. They wanted a country that was centrally located in the Middle East where they could have lots of military and Intelligence bases while also being able to get private corporations in there to exploit the resources. We thought Saddam was our guy, but he'd become difficult so they needed to remove him to get the ball rolling. When 9-11 happened it gave us that much more of an opportunity to find a way to invade the country they really wanted to go in to and turn into something like we have in the Philippines or Okinawa.
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  3. Wait...there will be more. We're only a fifth of the way into the century and if the Climate Crisis (or any of the handful of other truly catastrophic events) isn't averted there are going to be a lot more places that end up looking like Mosul at 1:49:58.
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