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    Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 23 Jul 2014

    Would the US invasion of Iraq have been less likely to happen if Twitter had existed then?

    11:23 AM - 23 Jul 2014
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      1. Ali Akdurak‏ @AliAkdurak 23 Jul 2014
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        @paulg http://xkcd.com/1239/  :)

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      1. Jelle Haandrikman‏ @jhaand 23 Jul 2014
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        . @paulg How long do you think The Vietnam War would have lasted if the Vietnamese would have had internet and Twitter.

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      1. Sam DeBrule‏ @SamDeBrule 23 Jul 2014
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        @paulg yes, the same way @GameOfThrones wouldn't have happened if email, twitter, sms, etc. were around.

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      1. Ali Tehrani‏ @Tehranix 23 Jul 2014
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        @paulg "It’s 2014, and the smell of burning flesh is hand-delivered to your immaculate iPhone." http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-features/.premium-1.606838 …

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      1. Pedro Oliveira‏ @cpdomina 23 Jul 2014
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        @paulg that's the most retarded thing I've heard in a long long time. thanks paul!

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      1. Ali Tehrani‏ @Tehranix 23 Jul 2014
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        @paulg on the other hand would ISIS be able to recruit as many people without twitter? Fewer conventional wars, more unconventional wars.

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      1. Blair MacGregor‏ @blairmacgregor 23 Jul 2014
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        no. unfortunately. RT @paulg: Would the US invasion of Iraq have been less likely to happen if Twitter had existed then?

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      1. mzungu‏ @GgReErGg 23 Jul 2014
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        @paulg No

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      1. Gui Carvalho‏ @guimonz 26 Jul 2014
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        @paulg Israel government, like the US, don't get that the more people they kill, the more likely their relatives will turn into "terrorists"

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      1. amarquet‏ @amarquet 26 Jul 2014
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        @paulg yes, probably Bush would never had been elected in the first place.

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      1. Omar Sahal‏ @omar_sahal 25 Jul 2014
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        @paulg @paulg No, people listen to the accounts that confirm their beliefs, they dismiss the others as just wrong!

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      1. Raghu Srinivasan‏ @raghus 25 Jul 2014
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        @paulg I greatly doubt that the sort of people who took us into that war would be swayed by #nowar trending on Twitter

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      1. Sanja Gauthier‏ @sanjagauthier 24 Jul 2014
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        @paulg I would like to believe that -but the way things are going- it doesn't look like.

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      1. Daniel Orias‏ @dannyo152 23 Jul 2014
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        @paulg No. Anti-war folks called Congress-critters and took the phones down. It was unironically dismissed as a manipulative stunt.

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      1. Mohamed Dafalla‏ @modafalla 23 Jul 2014
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        @paulg You're a legend in the valley but also a compassinate human being, thanks for standing up for #GAZA and for all you do for the valley

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      1. PXLated‏ @PXLated 23 Jul 2014
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        @paulg - 2/2- If there had still been a draft (no exceptions) so every parent had a stake in the Iraq war, we wouldn’t have invaded.

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      1. PXLated‏ @PXLated 23 Jul 2014
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        @paulg - 1/2 - Twitter wouldn’t have made a difference on the Iraq invasion I don’t think…But…

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      1. Sjors Provoost‏ @provoost 23 Jul 2014
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        @paulg given US history, I doubt one piece of new technology would or will make a difference in the likeliness of war.

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      1. Lenny Moses‏ @lennymoses 23 Jul 2014
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        @paulg twitter is great, but not that sort of great

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      1. Mijbel AlQattan‏ @MijbelF 23 Jul 2014
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        .@paulg on twitter, pro-war voices would have been drowned out by anti-war. Then & today, the people who decide to go to war wouldn't care.

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