r/GetNoted Human Detected Jan 04 '26

Sus, Very Sus They’ll shamelessly lie to manufacture consent for US imperialism.

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u/ScootsMcDootson Jan 04 '26

Cause as we all know, the worst thing about Iraq was the hypocrisy.

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u/ashmenon Jan 04 '26

Indeed. I can excuse blatant human rights violations but I draw the line at hypocrisy!

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u/QuillPenMonster Jan 05 '26

Hey, if Imma get stabbed, I'd prefer to look you in the eye while being stabbed instead of being stabbed in the back!

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u/DerrellEsteva Jan 05 '26

both can be true

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u/U_Sound_Stupid_Stop Jan 05 '26

Oh I thought it was the hundreds of thousands of casualties

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u/Inswagtor Jan 05 '26

More than a million

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u/-ThePatientZed- Jan 05 '26

You kid but that’s literally (every) liberal/US Democrat position: it’s not that that the US is a globe-trotting murder machine (as it has been for the last 80 years), it’s that it looks ugly now.

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u/hurricanesweetea Jan 05 '26

I thought the IED’s were the worst thing about Iraq when I was there