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killbotfactory

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22. This point needs repeating

Sat Feb 7, 2015, 02:42 PM

Feb 2015

The purpose of the bombing was to terrify Iraqis into submitting. That is, it was a form of state terrorism. Iraq had not attacked the US. There was no casus belli or legitimate legal grounds for war. The UN Security Council, despite wooing and arm-twisting by Bush officials, declined to authorize the use of force. It was an illegal act of unadulterated aggression with no obvious provocation that led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, the wounding of millions, and rendered four million of the 25 million Iraqis homeless over time (many of these remain displaced to this day; some have thrown in with Daesh as a result).

The people responsible for this are walking free today and living rich lives.

Think about that the next time someone unironically says we should "turn the area into glass" because of a video of ISIS barbarity.

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Juan Cole: Is ISIL’s ‘Shock and Awe’ more Awe-ful because One Victim? [View all] marmar Feb 2015 OP

if one dies it's a tragedy... magical thyme Feb 2015 #1

I have it in my sig line. valerief Feb 2015 #7

actually I was thinking of Stalin magical thyme Feb 2015 #15

I was thinking similar NewJeffCT Feb 2015 #18

Yes, because anything worth saying has been said many times before, like Kennedy's, valerief Feb 2015 #21

Bush's invasion of Iraq was a war of aggression and a crime arely staircase Feb 2015 #2

Kick. polly7 Feb 2015 #3

Or the fake body counts from 'nam erronis Feb 2015 #23

K&R JEB Feb 2015 #4

His questions make some people uncomfortable and include facts about policies and Jefferson23 Feb 2015 #5

And many Americans just don't want to hear it...... marmar Feb 2015 #6

Jingoism works! valerief Feb 2015 #9

What Cole has said and I will add, what Obama has said recently, can get in the way Jefferson23 Feb 2015 #19

What's his point? nt Dreamer Tatum Feb 2015 #8

I believe it's this, and that what has, and is being done in the name of polly7 Feb 2015 #10

Stipulated. Can we DO something now? Dreamer Tatum Feb 2015 #13

It isn't Cole that has to do something. polly7 Feb 2015 #17

K&R G_j Feb 2015 #11

Sick irony is that ISIS' actions are used by the US as justification for more aerial bombing. nt Romulox Feb 2015 #12

Academic and moral arguments about our past deeds are valid. TwilightGardener Feb 2015 #14

Dear Juan, it's not 'one victim' B2G Feb 2015 #16

Such as this from of all places, RT: 7962 Feb 2015 #25

Yes, it is. Anyone who can look someone if the face and burn him to death is a psychopath. McCamy Taylor Feb 2015 #20

This point needs repeating killbotfactory Feb 2015 #22

Bullshit equivalency. But then juan Cole is full of shit anyway, so what else would he say 7962 Feb 2015 #24

We weren't shown video of women and children in Falluja Warpy Feb 2015 #26

+1. n/t Jefferson23 Feb 2015 #27

Exactly, Warpy. polly7 Feb 2015 #29

Aljazeera: If terror is political theatre, ISIL is an Oscar winner pampango Feb 2015 #28