People can criticize US policing–which has been indeed further militarized with gear, training and mindset following the Iraq war—without these incoherent comparisons to the US occupation of Iraq. What's happening is terrible. Please *stop* making light of what happened in Iraq.
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That's exactly why people should stop making these comparisons. Gunning down civilians every week, week after week, for years was exactly the behavior that was very much *acceptable* in that war, because we did it for years, to little accountability. https://twitter.com/angaidh_/status/1267106508048916481 …
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There is no doubt the US military killed FAR TOO MANY civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan or that the military needs better systems of accountability for illegal actions. It does not change the fact that I would not have let my soldiers behave like the police did in this video.
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Maybe you would not have. But if you were in Iraq you should know what actually happened, what the numbers were like for years and years, and what it means to compare what is certainly overly-aggressive, indefensible policing last night with what actually happened in Iraq.
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Thank you very much for highlighting it.
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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Take the word Iraq out of the statement, as I don’t think what he is saying is specific to that war. I read it as comparing police tactics/training with military tactics/training. He’s not saying that what happened in Iraq is better/worse than what is happening in the US now.
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Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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Thank you
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And even with all that, soldiers often acted with *more* restraint than we're seeing here. Think it through.
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