r/ABoringDystopia • u/pun420 • 8h ago

What did we accomplish in Iraq again?

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u/Fossilhog 7h ago

We let Halliburton executives make a lot of money so they could trickle it down to the rest of us in glorious showers of gold.

And Bush Jr. felt the need to "finish" what his daddy "started" in order to satisfy his head canon and ego.

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u/RudyRoughknight 7h ago

It's a fucking nightmare

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u/MaPoutine 8h ago

Wow that is so sad, poor guy. And must be so hard for his mom to watch.

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u/DIYLawCA 4h ago

Nothing

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u/kurotech 3h ago

We destroyed and destabilized multiple nations and threw nearly a trillion dollars towards arms manufacturing instead of social programs that's not nothing now is it those trickle down economics gonna kick in any day now

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u/just_a_tech 44m ago

Well, we flattened a nation and murdered hundreds of thousands of it's people. Then we allowed a generation of Americans to be traumatized for life. All so some politicians could put their names in history books and some oil execs could make a bunch of money.

Not only does it make me sick to my stomach, but it's fucking infuriating. I lost friends over there. Some of the ones that came back, myself included, aren't the same people as before they left. Some crawled into a bottle, some are on drugs, some of them have since killed themselves. We were betrayed, lied to, used as mercenaries, and then thrown away like trash. This poor man will suffer for the rest of his life even if he gets the care and help he needs.

AND NO ONE CAN OR WILL DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT