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Two decades of U.S. policy appear to be rooted in a mistaken understanding of what happened that day. archive

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Not even that... W. had been planning to attack Iraq on day 1 because of the failed assassination plot against his dad.

[–] RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

That was Bush’s motivation. Cheney recruited him to be President while Cheney was head of Halliburton.

Halliburton made a metric shit ton off all this shit.

Cheney was WAAAYYY more involved in policy - especially geopolitics - than previous VPs.

Once W realized that Cheney was a lying sack of shit, he was banished from policy, but that wasn’t until almost the end of the second term.

[–] kbin_space_program@kbin.run 2 points 3 months ago

Yes, the WMDs was the public reason.