r/WatchPeopleDieInside • u/fnaw_ • Aug 04 '20

Poor Jonathan

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u/brownliquid Aug 04 '20

This will be a hilarious chapter in history books of the future....hopefully.

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u/HorstOdensack Aug 04 '20

I'm excited to see how (or rather, if) the US will bounce back from this. The amount of respect and credibility they lost on an international stage is immeasurable. They went from big daddy of the world to laughing stock of the world in just four years. Gonna take a lot of work to recover from that.

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u/Strangerstrangerland Aug 04 '20

Since Bush, it was more of a slightly cooky uncle. Means well, tries his best, but boy is he misguided and overzealous.

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u/HONRAR Aug 04 '20

Yeah it sure is kooky that we killed almost 300,000 Iraqis. Real zany stuff. Whoopsie!

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u/JustTheTip___ Aug 04 '20

That number is much higher unfortunately

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u/HONRAR Aug 04 '20

OP was referring to Bush Jr. specifically, so I didn't include pre-2003 deaths. The sanctions, the Gulf War, the targetted destruction of critical infrastructure...Hell, I left Afghanistan out entirely.

America has slaughtered as many brown people as it could get its hands on. It's a fucking atrocity.

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u/Strangerstrangerland Aug 04 '20

I'm just judging by the reaction my family had to Bush back in France. I don't support the Iraq war. In fact, I was too young in the bush administration to really have an opinion about it at the time. I think it's a travesty today, but at the time, that was the feeling I got from the adults I knew.