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Wanna wipe out a small nation because you don’t like someone who is from there? Sure. Consequences? What consequences?

I mean, while a nation wasn’t wiped out, a whole war was started against Iraq over false pretenses, and no consequences were ever seen.

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We also spent 20 years in Afghanistan blowing shit up as a result of some Saudis hijacking planes, then just left all the terps and their families to be killed by the Taliban.

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The argument about invading Afghanistan was that the Taliban was in cahoots with Al Qaeda and were harbouring Osama bin Laden.

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Whom we eventually found in Pakistan, after the boardwalk in Kandahar had been around for years. Instead of putting pressure on the royal family to turn over the black sheep we invaded a country of goat herders and poppy farmers. Bin Laden was killed in 2011 and that fuckin TGI Fridays didn’t close for like 5 years after, UBL was the excuse to fire up the military machine but its inertia makes too much money to stop just cause you got your target.

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At least they justified it. I mean, the justification was bullshit; but the justifications existed and, at least at the time, the majority of the public believed it.

If we give blanket immunity to the president, then, IDK, goodbye Madagascar, for no logical reason.

At least right now they have to try to justify taking some kind of action against someone or something. They can’t just do whatever.

Executive action, president can serve as long as they want. Executive action, the president is now the God-King dictator of the USA. States are dissolved, and everyone is under the rulership of his supreme Highness.

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Of course there were consequences! Or as we rather call them, ROI

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