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How tf did he manage to have the worst possible centrist take on this?
his brain is still stuck in war on terror era "appeal to the psycho evangelicals obsessed with the HOLY LAND" mode
It's fucked because it'd make sense if he was like a zoomer, millennial or gen x, we've known nothing but wars in the middle east.
But mother fucker was almost 50 when the Gulf war started. He doesn't have an excuse to be stuck in that mindset, he was raised and lived past middle age outside of it
"When the gulf war was started"?
Lol this is literally the man that got out in front of the entire congress immediately before the vote for Iraq 2.0 and talked about how fukkin easy and awesome it was gonna be!
FOR THREE HOURS
As a direct consequence of this, over the next decade a million Iraqi adults would join the at least 500,000 Iraqi children that had died from the horrific economic sanctions preventing medicine and formula from being imported after Iraq 1.0
We also set approximate ten trillion dollars in various gasoline soaked wheelbarrows on fire to achieve this lofty humanitarian goal
Do not cite the deep magicks to me, witch, for I was there when it was written.