they let them drown
this post was submitted on 05 Mar 2026
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"We knew they were going to counterattack us." So you're agree that there was no threat unless you landed the first punch, right?
Having grown up during the Iraq war, which featured some pretty dumb propaganda, I am going nuts seeing how much lower the floor has gotten.
This Iraq War propaganda wasn't really different than this. The difference is how ubiquitous and popular it was
I feel like there was an attempt at a narrative what with the bin Laden thing and the uranium thing and the "we don't want to have a smoking gun be a mushroom cloud" allusion to a hypothetical Iraqi first strike. Was it all disprovable lies? Sure, but it wasn't this atemporal "we gotta attack them to prevent the counterattack that would result from our attacking them to prevent the counterattack" ourobouros propaganda.
It's so nihilistic now: everyone knows they're lying, they know that no one believes them, even their supporters know it's all bullshit that won't convince anyone.
I really don't know why they haven't gone mask off and just started talking about how it is ok because
yet. That would probably make more Americans approve of the war if they framed it as a "race war" or something.