minus-squareSSFC KDT (MOVED)@mastodon.cloudlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year ago@Diva @TWeaK wasn’t the secret point of the Iraq War to use it as our foothold in the ME…
minus-squareDiva (she/her)@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoI would say that Israel was the foothold, Saddam used to be the US’s ‘guy’ until he wasn’t and the Iraq war was a bunch of criminal opportunists seizing on an opportunity to invade and loot a country with a flimsy pretext.
@Diva @TWeaK wasn’t the secret point of the Iraq War to use it as our foothold in the ME…
I would say that Israel was the foothold, Saddam used to be the US’s ‘guy’ until he wasn’t and the Iraq war was a bunch of criminal opportunists seizing on an opportunity to invade and loot a country with a flimsy pretext.