Many people saw through the phony pretenses for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. I'm not sure why so much of HN pretends otherwise. I guess they believe that if they were duped, and they're super smart, then surely everyone else must have been duped as well. This couldn't be further from the truth. There were many people calling these wars BS from the start.
The Iraq war protests were some of the largest in human history. The only takeaway really should be that the US Government can basically do whatever the hell they want whenever the hell they want to.
600 cities and millions of people come together to say "no" to the U.S. invading the middle-east. Bush then shed a tear, as he immediately pulled back our forces, realizing what a terrible mistake he'd made.
Of course, that didn't happen. The war continued for almost 20 more years. 10 million people still isn't a meaningful-enough protest size to kill the military-industrial complex. The funny thing that's even more to my point: it wasn't the U.S. that held the largest of the protests. The average U.S. citizen does not know, or does not care.
You continue to get called out, then shift the goalposts. We weren't discussing whether or not protesters were able to kill the military industrial complex, because we all know that didn't happen. That doesn't prove your point.
Many people saw through the phony pretenses for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. I'm not sure why so much of HN pretends otherwise. I guess they believe that if they were duped, and they're super smart, then surely everyone else must have been duped as well. This couldn't be further from the truth. There were many people calling these wars BS from the start.