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Joe Biden, Five Years Before Invasion, Said the Only Way of Disarming Iraq Is “Taking Saddam Down” At a 1998 Senate hearing, Biden argued that “taking this son

Joe Biden, Five Years Before Invasion, Said the Only Way of Disarming Iraq Is “Taking Saddam Down” At a 1998 Senate hearing, Biden argued that “taking this son of a — taking Saddam down" was the only way to guarantee Iraq’s disarmament. " https://theintercept.com/2020/01/07/joe-biden-iraq-war-history/ https://theintercept.com/2020/01/07/joe-biden-iraq-war-histo...

consumer451 3y ago
Biden and HRC's votes are inexcusable. When Obama first ran for President, having voted no on the invasion was the litmus test. That's one of the reasons he jumped ahead in the running. We all knew it was a giant mistake at that point. Now history is being revised. I have recently heard an active US Admiral on YT say "it's the best intelligence we had at the time." No, it was devoid of actually intel. As criminal as the Russian invasion of Ukraine, minus most of the ethnic cleansing. The USA lost so much global goodwill. It was soooo stupid and unnecessary. Arguably the end of Pax Americana.
- sillywalk 3y ago
  War is a Racket - Smedley Butler Over 80 percent of four-star retirees are employed in defense industry[0]. Biden continues the bipartisan tradition of putting Defense Contractors in top posts.[0] Lloyd Austin was on the board of Raytheon. "Before Austin, another person with ties to Raytheon, the contractor’s chief lobbyist Mark Esper, held the reins of the Pentagon. Esper’s predecessors, Patrick Shanahan and James Mattis, had respectively been a senior vice president at Boeing and a board member of General Dynamics. Ellen Lord, the former president and CEO of Textron Systems, oversaw the Pentagon’s weapon acquisitions. ... Frank Kendall, chosen by Biden to lead the Air Force. Kendall, a former vice president at Raytheon who served as Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics for President Barack Obama, has spent the last few years as an adviser and consultant to defense contractors. Kendall’s disclosures show that the bulk of his income has come from advising Northrop Grumman, followed by income from Renaissance Strategic Advisors, an investment firm that arranges mergers and acquisitions in the defense sector."[1] [0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/10/04/retired-generals-defense-contractors/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/10/04/... [1] https://theintercept.com/2021/05/28/biden-pentagon-defense-contractors/ https://theintercept.com/2021/05/28/biden-pentagon-defense-c...

consumer451 3y ago

Biden and HRC's votes are inexcusable. When Obama first ran for President, having voted no on the invasion was the litmus test. That's one of the reasons he jumped ahead in the running. We all knew it was a giant mistake at that point. Now history is being revised. I have recently heard an active US Admiral on YT say "it's the best intelligence we had at the time." No, it was devoid of actually intel. As criminal as the Russian invasion of Ukraine, minus most of the ethnic cleansing. The USA lost so much global goodwill. It was soooo stupid and unnecessary. Arguably the end of Pax Americana.

sillywalk 3y ago
War is a Racket - Smedley Butler Over 80 percent of four-star retirees are employed in defense industry[0]. Biden continues the bipartisan tradition of putting Defense Contractors in top posts.[0] Lloyd Austin was on the board of Raytheon. "Before Austin, another person with ties to Raytheon, the contractor’s chief lobbyist Mark Esper, held the reins of the Pentagon. Esper’s predecessors, Patrick Shanahan and James Mattis, had respectively been a senior vice president at Boeing and a board member of General Dynamics. Ellen Lord, the former president and CEO of Textron Systems, oversaw the Pentagon’s weapon acquisitions. ... Frank Kendall, chosen by Biden to lead the Air Force. Kendall, a former vice president at Raytheon who served as Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics for President Barack Obama, has spent the last few years as an adviser and consultant to defense contractors. Kendall’s disclosures show that the bulk of his income has come from advising Northrop Grumman, followed by income from Renaissance Strategic Advisors, an investment firm that arranges mergers and acquisitions in the defense sector."[1] [0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/10/04/retired-generals-defense-contractors/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/10/04/... [1] https://theintercept.com/2021/05/28/biden-pentagon-defense-contractors/ https://theintercept.com/2021/05/28/biden-pentagon-defense-c...