• finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    The number absolutely should not be 0. It’s a nation which actively funds and mobilizes religious extremists who imprison or execute homosexuals and treat women as cattle.

    EDIT: in this context Iraq meant the local populace, not the government

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      16 days ago

      Which wasn’t the case before the invasion, when there were 0 US troops. Why the fuck do you bring up current day when I’m talking about protests that happened over 20 years ago (by people who knew the current outcome was likely)?

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        16 days ago

        Are you confused about which comment thread you’re in? You said initially that the protests 20 years ago of the Iraq War were impotent and I pointed out that the US Involvment in Iraq sharply declined as a result of those protests, despite anti-NATO religious extremism presence growing in the region for many of the following years.

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          The protests didn’t do anything to that, it was the insurgency causing a steady supply of body bags to come back.