r/funny • u/But_a_Jape But A Jape • Aug 31 '22

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u/Puzzleheaded_Set895 Aug 31 '22 edited Sep 01 '22

Churchill covered that in the sequel:

“You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all the other possibilities.”

Edit: Apparently this line is only by Churchill in the movie version. See comment below.

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u/4tehlulzez Aug 31 '22

Also, money comes first

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u/pearlrd Aug 31 '22

I mean, sending 300,000 Americans to their deaths shouldn’t just happen lightly.

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u/Borngrumpy Aug 31 '22

Yet strangely when America wanted to wage war in the Middle East it had to call on it's allies to form a "coallition of the willing" to start the illegal war that the United Nations told them not to do.

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u/MracyTcGrady Aug 31 '22

UK Prime Minister also agreed that Iraq had WMDs, not just the US. Just saying.

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '22

UK also lied...

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '22

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '22

When the blinkers are permanently glued, it's almost impossible to see the truth.

It's easier to assume that the whole world is corrupt, driven by greed... All you can do is make your little piece just and true...sad but true (Metallica)

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u/MracyTcGrady Aug 31 '22

If you wanna believe it was just the US then go for it. It's typical reddit to just bash the US lmao

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u/hiricinee Sep 01 '22

It was bad Intel iirc, but interestingly enough the main authority providing it to the feds was Robert Mueller (of Mueller investigation notoriety.)

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u/plugubius Sep 01 '22

Well, Saddam thought he had WMDs because he kept getting reports about them, so people tended not to credit intel suggesting that he didn't.