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Right?!?! I will never, ever, as long as I live forget the day that ignorant twat Kyra Phillips quizzed the doctor of an Iraqi boy who was burned, lost both his arms, and whose entire family was killed by one of our bombs, if the boy understood the noble purpose of "Operation Iraqi Freedom".

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it. -- Upton Sinclair

I remember watching a piece on CNN where a counterinsurgency expert informed the viewer that, in many parts of Iraq, it was considered a grave insult to separate the men from the women into different rooms after you've stormed into a family's house.

A lot of the same people were utterly outraged when the occupation government collapsed thirty seconds after the occupation pulled out. How dare they reject our gift of civilization

The grand unifying theory of "fuck that guy" c.c. @lionsledbydonkeys.bsky.social

“Supposedly” doing a lot of heavy lifting here

Rudyard Kipling Brain is an eternal affliction

Especially when you could just ask Bob McHicksville with the "Terrorist hunting permit" who would tell you with a straight face that he'd be bombing soldiers too if a foreign country was occupying the US. Probably a Red Dawn reference thrown in for good measure.

Cheney said "We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators" three days into the invasion of Iraq. They were already doomed, and that should have been obvious.

I was an adult with a little baby so I was super distracted at the time but I clearly remember Michael Moore getting excoriated for saying something like, "We are the redcoats, they are the Minutemen, and they are going to win."

Dubya… said this? From April 2004: "they're not happy they're occupied. I wouldn't be happy if I were occupied either." georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/release...

I was baffled by the idea that Iraq would greet the US as liberators given that we had locked them down under heavy economic sanctions for the previous decade.

You'd see it even in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 and the run-up to the wars. "They hate us for our freedom." No, they hate us because they can't have a sovereign government without the U.S. State Department overthrowing it

"they don't know what's good for them" is 100% the colonizer mindset

Afghanistan, historically famous for cowing down to invaders. These so-called smart analysts have always been idiots

And not just “invade” them in the abstract but send heavily armed soldiers to break into their house in the middle of the night.

Yet another self quote

how much of a huge apparatus of alterity they are going to have to build really quickly in order to say the people of Minneapolis (!) are resisting "civilization" because they're the other

As Joe Kassabian puts it, "The Greater Unifying Theory of 'fuck that guy'."