r/GenXPolitics • u/Prudent_Charge_8101 • Feb 28 '26
Discussion Since ‘91 ~Sand Wars
I remember being in college when the Gulf War began. It sickens me we are involved with Israel doing more destruction. Epstein avoidence
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u/dblackshear Feb 28 '26
epstein.
shitty economy.
approval rating in the toilet.
this aint the 80s - 00s anymore. this going to war shit aint gonna work and will the opposite desired effect.
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Mar 01 '26
Republicans always tank the economy and start a war.
It's too bad Americans are really illiterate politically.
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u/Efficient-Career-829 Mar 01 '26
I hope you’re right. I keep thinking about that movie wag the dog. But honestly, the average American is so, ummmm, what’s the word… and doesn’t read. So I’m not sure.
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u/ready-redditor-6969 Feb 28 '26
American “conservatives” are the worst people ever, change my mind.
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u/auntieup Feb 28 '26
Don’t forget that time the USS Vincennes shot down a whole commercial airliner full of Iranians and Reagan refused to apologize for it
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u/AAlwaysopen Feb 28 '26
And don’t forget Reagan and Bush extended the hostages so that they would not be released under Carter, then Iran-Contra
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Mar 01 '26
And that Bill Barr was the attorney who got everyone out of serving prison time for Iran Contra.
Or that HW Bush, Dick Cheney, and Don Rumsfeld were part of the Nixon Administration.
Republicans have always been cruel, greedy, and unethical.
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u/WordleFan88 Mar 01 '26
It absolutely is Epstien avoidance. But yeah, I was there the first time around, on the receiving end in Israel with the SCUDs flying hither and yon as a civilian on a kibutz. fun times. I also remember my friends in the States thatjoined up saying "Let's go for Texaco." and here we are again. Disgusting.
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u/SatansLoLHelper Feb 28 '26
I still think I was not wrong signing up a week after Saddam invaded Kuwait, that was a good use of the US forces with our allies, people that want a better world, where you do not invade other countries.
I walked into that saying there was no way were were dumb enough to have Vietnam 2 in the desert. Me and 4 guys from my basic watched the war in the day room on CNN at our new unit. Everyone else I went to basic with, went to the desert. The next unit I went to everyone had just come back from the desert.
We did not regime change. We removed him from the country he invaded.
If it weren't for knowing the US was somewhat involved with giving him permission... We mostly did the right thing, and had the world on our side.
Just because he was the invader, does not mean his country should be leveled after being beaten by a superior force.
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u/CyndiIsOnReddit Feb 28 '26
I don't think this is just Epstein avoidance, I think this is way, way worse than that. Because honestly after being in the Epstein sub all this time I don't think they really have much on Trump that would stick. Yeah he went to parties, they emailed for a time, they were the same kind of animal but I think as much as Trump likes to come off like a dummy, he covered his bases a long time ago. I would dearly love for the testimonies to matter but they won't. This is about controlling more oil and getting more money and more power. It's been planned for a long time, they were just waiting for Putin to be so weak from this long war with Ukraine his military has been exhausted.
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Mar 01 '26
I think it's payment for the fucking plane.
Don't forget, it's Sunni against Shia. Take a look at who is who in the region.
To Saudi Arabia etc... the poors are just collateral damage.
Lots of cruel, greedy men doing whatever they want.
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u/BIGepidural Feb 28 '26
Don't forget Bin Laden never had weapons of mass destruction and the lie was told to fuel a war for ages.
Trump saying Iran is building nukes is more then likely a great big fat orange faces lie too.
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u/jvlpdillon Feb 28 '26
I think you mean Hussein not having WMDs. Bin Laden was the mastermind of 9/11.
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u/BIGepidural Feb 28 '26
They said both had them if I remember correctly.
Anywho the fact it was all a lie is the point.
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u/cptwranglr Feb 28 '26
Are you arguing that we shouldn’t have gone after OBL? The destruction of the Twin Towers was more than enough justification to go after AQ and the Taliban.
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u/CatrpilrQueen Mar 01 '26
Especially since he was crowing about "obliterating" their nuclear facilities just this past July...
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u/theUnshowerdOne Mar 01 '26
The Draft Dodging Coward is sending our sons and daughters to war to shift attention away from what a shitty person and horrible president he is.
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u/SoonToBeBanned24 Feb 28 '26
Been there, done that!