• NSRXN@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    17 days ago

    post hoc ergo propter hoc. the invention of Facebook was just as much a cause of leaving Iraq. or flat screen TVs. or Blu-ray disks.

    which is to say the protests didn’t change anything.

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      17 days ago

      Politicians making decisions based on public opinion has a lot of cause and effect relation. By all accounts it would have been easier to maintain a 40k to 100k presence in Iraq than it was to pack everything up and leave.

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          17 days ago
          1. People opposed the pointless war whose only winners were Exxo n Mobil.

          2. People voted the party who started the war out of power.

          3. The opposition party withdrew from the region.