What do you think is the single/foremost compelling motivation for the Iraq War?
from cheese_greater@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca on 08 Mar 2026 14:45
https://lemmy.world/post/43995633
from cheese_greater@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca on 08 Mar 2026 14:45
https://lemmy.world/post/43995633
I think the petrodollar thing is interesting (Iraq switched to using euros in exchange for oil or something)
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Iraq?
Yess
Desert Storm or the post 9/11 Iraq?
I mean iraq war started after 9/11 so. I am not read up on desert storm
There were two Iraq invasions.
Really? Crazy
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?
jacobin.com/2024/03/iraq-war-blowback-memory-dig
For a significantly more detailed account, see Blowback Season 1 (sources on their website)
blowback.show
It happened in 1990, the first Iraq war. Iraq invaded Kuwait and we “liberated” their oil.
The second Iraq war, after 9/11, was caused by Netanyahu convincing us that there were weapons of mass destruction and Iraq was a clear and present danger to regional safety, despite no credible evidence of WMD or ties to the 9/11 events.
Yes, Netanyahu was the influencer behind both Iraq and Iran.
In the US, Desert Storm was called the Iraq War, and the war that started after 9/11 was referred to as the War in Afghanistan.
I remember seeing some list of a huge number of reasons the Bush regime gave for it. They used something like 80 different reasons at different times.
What do you think resonates most i terms of getting to/@ the heart of the matter
You said it in your own post.
reuters.com/…/how-us-controls-iraqs-oil-revenues-…
If they wwre on trial in International Court (ICC)—I know America doesnt recognize their jx and fucks with them—bur if they were on trial, would that be the seasoned peosecutor’s approach?
Iraq has the 6th largest daily production of oil and the 4th (or 5th) largest confirmed reserves in the world.
Sometimes the simple explanation is right.
Obviously a distraction from the Trump-Epstein files. What scares me is that his only other deflection now is nuclear.
Iraq war, i swear you’re the second person in my circle to mistake Iraq for Iran on this very subject in the last 12 hours haha
You got me good there. I should have read more closely. 😊
The other is a university professor emeritus tho so u good
Which one?