View Single Post
Old 08-11-2020, 08:34 PM   #2203
rubecube
Franchise Player
 
rubecube's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Victoria
Exp:
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Mathgod View Post
And I think much the same can be said for most of those who were in favour of the Iraq war back then; they wouldn't have been in favour of it if they had known how disastrous it was going to turn out. It is an unproven assumption to say that Bush et al had malicious intent at the time. Think about what you would do as president back then - your country is fresh off a direct attack on its soil which killed thousands, your generals and intelligence agencies are screaming at you to go into Iraq to disable Saddam's WMD capability, and your country is in the mood for war and retribution. Saying no to going into Iraq wouldn't have been as easy a decision as we would like to think it was.

But since we're talking about death counts, the death toll attributable to climate change will in all likelihood dwarf the death toll of the Iraq war. Bush refused to implement Kyoto citing economic reasons, but he did not flat out deny climate change as Trump has done. To me, that is a significant difference.



Ok, maybe I need to read some history. In the meantime though, here are some resources I would recommend that you take a look at to gain a more comprehensive understanding of the Trump presidency.

Here are some appetizers:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...eading-claims/
https://youtu.be/cFEt0-CJaWQ
https://youtu.be/fIN8oxnw__I
https://youtu.be/GM1w8_dOcR8
https://youtu.be/UBvggMd4hAg
https://youtu.be/OvEbMOZirP4

And the main course:

https://rantt.com/three-unpresidented-years

1095 separate blogs posts, one covering each day of the first 3 years of Trump's presidency. Happy reading!
I'm just amazed that someone would post Cody's Showdy clips in response to someone who clearly consumes that content and leave out just how much Cody despises Biden.
rubecube is offline