People who had opposed the Iraq invasion and occupation also, with no cognitive dissonance, made it a part of their criticism of Bush that he was planning or going to ‘cut and run’ from Iraq, as if that would have been bad.
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We as a country had a lackadaisical, epistemological debate over the course of many months, amongst ourselves & in international venues, over whether to invade Iraq. Everyone seemed to presume the leadership of Iraq would wait patiently watching while we did so. Just seems funny
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Our garrison in Iraq had been maintained at around X soldiers for a while, but then there was a big emotional debate over whether to restation some number (17k is in my mind, not sure if correct?) of soldiers from elsewhere and make it X+17k instead. This was known as ‘The Surge’
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People literally had heated debates over whether ‘The Surge’(tm) was ok or not. Like, whether a garrison of size X+17k instead of X was intolerable.
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A standard of winning a war was implicitly endorsed by people of all political stripes under which to ‘win a war’ means to unseat a country’s government and then create a whole new friendly one that is peaceful indefinitely thereafter. i.e., one that is humanly impossible to meet
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Neil Young put out a terrible song, that some people pretended to think was kind of good
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Things like ‘freedom fries’ and the blackballing of the Dixie Chicks occurred and were almost immediately ascribed to unanimous conservative grassroots agitation, instead of a vocal minority. (this was more possible back then; it still happens today but mostly from the left)
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Like, I didn’t give a fuck about the Dixie Chicks either way, and the ‘freedom fries’ thing just seemed like a hilarious joke from the get-go, but no one ever asked me. (Oh sorry I mean to say ‘right wingers like myself all went crazy in the post 9/11 climate’)
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We’d been waging economic and occasionally bloody war against Iraq since the ‘90s (post ‘The Gulf War’). This ongoing blockade was regularly said by the left to be the cause of hundreds of thousands of deaths of Iraqi children. But then ‘The Iraq War’ started in 2003. just weird
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Someone on John Ashcroft’s staff or something misguidedly asked to cover up statue boobs to prevent what would’ve been the mid-00s equivalent of a memeworthy photo framing, and this was taken as a sign of incipient, frightening Puritanical Theocracy. Still literally shaking rn
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Relatively early training in how the media gets deceptive photos would be that they'd have to lie down on the floor off to the side to get a shot of Ashcroft with the statue in frame - I have a vague recollection of seeing that in a photo
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