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

  • jordanlund@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

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

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      7 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.