• Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Voters? Never.

    Supporters who organize to commit acts of terror like shutting down local libraries via threats of violence? Now. We should be doing that now.

    I didn’t fight shit heads in Iraq just to have more shit heads do it here.

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        6 months ago

        That’s a deep question. But I’m in a mood tonight so fuck it. I got there because I was young and well indoctrinated. I stayed there and went back because Saddam and AQ were massive assholes the locals didn’t deserve. I left because my body couldn’t handle the physicality of the job anymore. At no point was I looking at that stuff going, “you know the one thing we don’t have at home is religious zealots planting bombs, we need more of that!”

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        Yeah I know. We knew when they announced Bremer’s orders. Then we got home and found out just how much lying went into starting the war and it became obvious they wanted a forever war. If they had won the election in 2008 they would have found some way to destabilize Iraq again, not knowing ISIS was just around the corner.