TokenBoomer@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoNew 9/11 Evidence Points to Deep Saudi Complicitywww.theatlantic.comexternal-linkmessage-square84fedilinkarrow-up1314arrow-down112file-text
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Two decades of U.S. policy appear to be rooted in a mistaken understanding of what happened that day. archive
minus-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·6 months agoNot even that… W. had been planning to attack Iraq on day 1 because of the failed assassination plot against his dad.
minus-squareRestrictedAccount@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·6 months agoThat was Bush’s motivation. Cheney recruited him to be President while Cheney was head of Halliburton. Halliburton made a metric shit ton off all this shit. Cheney was WAAAYYY more involved in policy - especially geopolitics - than previous VPs. Once W realized that Cheney was a lying sack of shit, he was banished from policy, but that wasn’t until almost the end of the second term.
minus-squarekbin_space_program@kbin.runlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·6 months agoYes, the WMDs was the public reason.
Not even that… W. had been planning to attack Iraq on day 1 because of the failed assassination plot against his dad.
That was Bush’s motivation. Cheney recruited him to be President while Cheney was head of Halliburton.
Halliburton made a metric shit ton off all this shit.
Cheney was WAAAYYY more involved in policy - especially geopolitics - than previous VPs.
Once W realized that Cheney was a lying sack of shit, he was banished from policy, but that wasn’t until almost the end of the second term.
Yes, the WMDs was the public reason.