cheese_greater@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.ca · edit-26 months agoWhat do you think is the single/foremost compelling motivation for the Iraq War?message-squaremessage-square23linkfedilinkarrow-up114arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up114arrow-down1message-squareWhat do you think is the single/foremost compelling motivation for the Iraq War?cheese_greater@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.ca · edit-26 months agomessage-square23linkfedilinkfile-text
I think the petrodollar thing is interesting (Iraq switched to using euros in exchange for oil or something)
minus-squaredumples@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·6 months agoThe greatest reasons? That Bush Jr. was mad that Bush Sr. didn’t remove Saddam. He wanted to go to war to show his daddy
minus-squareKeeponstalin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·6 months agoNot to mention that Saddam was also our guy before we used him for as a reason for the second invasion
minus-squarecheese_greater@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 months agoAre their cocktail night photos of Saddam and The West in happier times?
minus-squareKeeponstalin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·6 months agohttps://jacobin.com/2024/03/iraq-war-blowback-memory-dig For a significantly more detailed account, see Blowback Season 1 (sources on their website) https://blowback.show/
The greatest reasons? That Bush Jr. was mad that Bush Sr. didn’t remove Saddam. He wanted to go to war to show his daddy
Not to mention that Saddam was also our guy before we used him for as a reason for the second invasion
Are their cocktail night photos of Saddam and The West in happier times?
https://jacobin.com/2024/03/iraq-war-blowback-memory-dig
For a significantly more detailed account, see Blowback Season 1 (sources on their website)
https://blowback.show/