tfw your wars in afghanistan and iraq went so well that you're ready for round threehttps://twitter.com/EliLake/status/895355680101675010 …
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Replying to @alicemazzy
Has the US ever just asked for surrender before starting? Would have saved a lot of busywork in Iraq.
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Replying to @orpach
you don't remember the theater surrounding the surrender offer to iraq?
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Replying to @alicemazzy
Was that before or after shots were fired? I was < 10 years old at the time.
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Replying to @orpach
oh, I was a teenager. it was before, there was abig thing about saddam having however many hours to surrender before the invasion
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Replying to @alicemazzy @orpach
and saddam basically made the same offer back to bush to surrender
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Replying to @alicemazzy @orpach
and no one got the joke, they were just incredulous like "iraq is asking us to surrender??? lol don't they know who we are"
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it seemed like a ballsy move to me then, but I didn't understand until later it didn't matter and that we were gonna hang him either way
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