• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    So many people back then thought Saddam had something to do with 9/11. Poll after poll showed it. It was so damn depressing.

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      1 year ago

      They were pushing that narrative pretty fucking hard. At the same time some clown was sending anthrax letters around and they used that too. There were also protests at the white house before the invasion about no war for oil, so it’s not like support was universal and plenty of people saw through the ruse.

      But then there was that whole freedom fries thing… dear God.

      • PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        There were protests nationwide, at many college campuses and federal courthouses.

        We had over 4,000 people protest at some podunk town. We even had a bunch of news cameras cover it.

    • FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      He was easily the most identifiable “bad guy” in the middle east aside from Yasser Arafat in the public’s imagination. Probably contributed to it a bit…