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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@Diva @TWeaK wasn't the secret point of the Iraq War to use it as our foothold in the ME...

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I would say that Israel was the foothold, Saddam used to be the US's 'guy' until he wasn't and the Iraq war was a bunch of criminal opportunists seizing on an opportunity to invade and loot a country with a flimsy pretext.