• Optional@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Bush mostly operated under plausible deniability (we totally thought they had WMDs guys!)

    Only if one was a complete idiot. We all knew there were none, the IAEA said there were none, even Colin Powell’s pitiful lie was bullshit on the face of it, not to mention the SOTU’s Reel Srs FacE pulled when he said “yellowcake uranium . . . . from Africa” was all horrifyingly bad lying.

    They even gave it up themselves a couple of years later when Il Dubz looked under his chair at the WHPCD and said “those WMD’s have to be somewhere! Hyuk hyuk”

    Never plausible. Never. Just theatre. All for Fox news and the talk radio masses to snort up and get ready to kill for.

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      6 months ago

      On a related note, this is the main reason I can’t buy into any 9/11 was a government inside job. They couldn’t even fake finding WMDs in Iraq to justify the whole thing.

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      6 months ago

      I guess what I’m saying is that Bush’s claims could conceivably exist in a slightly different world, especially to those in a conservative media bubble.

      Trump’s lies are so boldfaced that even his statements within the echo chamber of conservative news strain reality.