this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2025
106 points (99.1% liked)

chapotraphouse

13941 readers
908 users here now

Banned? DM Wmill to appeal.

No anti-nautilism posts. See: Eco-fascism Primer

Slop posts go in c/slop. Don't post low-hanging fruit here.

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA@hexbear.net
MiraculousMM@hexbear.net
Nakoichi@hexbear.net
corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net
PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net
ZoomeristLeninist@hexbear.net
EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net
sweet_pecan@hexbear.net
a_little_red_rat@hexbear.net
khizuo@hexbear.net
gaystyleJoker@hexbear.net
thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net
context@hexbear.net
Infamousblt@hexbear.net
Sulvy@hexbear.net
106
2003 onion:This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t (theonion.com)
submitted 1 month ago by vegeta1@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
15 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I wouldn't be surprised to find out the Bush administration knew 9/11 was going to happen and they ignored it so they could have a pretense for plundering Afghanistan.

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It's not quite "Bush knew 9/11 was gonna happen", but Blowback season 1 and 4 pretty much shows all the ways the US was ready to go to war and how 9/11 was just a convenient excuse.

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

Oh yeah he definitely was ready to jump on it. He campaigned on boosting the military and increasing US involvement/adventurism overseas.