• Skullgrid@lemmy.world
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    1 hour ago

    old joke, first variation I found.

    A reporter heard Bush and one of his underlings talking in the hallway: “Mr President, how do we know for sure Iraq has weapons of mass destruction?” Bush says “You think we’re stupid boy?” “We made copies of all the receipts!”

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      Just to point to the people that weren’t there yet, the US made a lot of noise on the press every time they “found” some of the chemical weapons they sold to Iraq in the 80s that were stored in UN-approved deposits because Iraq had no means of destroying them.

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    During each American war of aggression, I think about this quote from ‘Lord of War’. I know it’s fiction, but it also describes reality and it hits very hard each time.

    Yuri: But in the Iran-Iraq War, you sold guns to both sides.

    Simeon Weisz: Did you ever consider that I wanted both sides to lose?