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> e.g. Majority of world* still believes Iraq had WMD I honestly can't believe that for a moment. At least in my country its widely known they didn't and we ma
by swarnie_ 7y ago
> e.g. Majority of world* still believes Iraq had WMD
I honestly can't believe that for a moment. At least in my country its widely known they didn't and we mainly went to war to secure Uncle Sam some cheap oil reserves.
- Sommer_Son 7y agoThat's probably why one of the first oil companies started working in Iraq was Russian Lukoil?
- scarecrowbob 7y ago"I honestly can't believe that for a moment." I can't speak for the majority of the world. In rural Texas, it is a widely held belief that there were WMD's found by the US in Iraq during the 2003 war (IME, anecdotally, YMMV, IANAL, whatever... I have no hard numbers just my lifetime of living there). A second and slightly less widespread belief is that "knowing what they knew at the time, thinking there were WMD in Iraq was a reasonable conclusion". I don't hold that second belief, but it seems more rational than the first even if I find it suspicious and unsupported by the facts. In any case, I can attest that the first belief is in the majority in rural Texas and between both beliefs I'd guess that 95% of the population holds one or the other.
- mikeash 7y agoRepublican stronghold believes Republican propaganda, no surprise there. This can’t be extrapolated to the rest of the world. The vast majority of the rest of the world didn’t believe it at the time and nothing ever happened to change their mind.