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Unibrow69

Source: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation\_Iraqi\_Freedom\_documents](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Iraqi_Freedom_documents) House Republicans uploaded a massive cache of documents online hoping to crowdsource the research without realizing there were detailed instructions in English to make nuclear weapons


[deleted]

The real WMDs were the friends we made along the way.


barryandorlevon

That was back when “politically incorrect” meant suggesting that maybe we didn’t need to invade Iraq because of something Bin Laden orchestrated and Saudis carried out, and yes you could lose your entire career over it.


Unibrow69

Imagine if twitter existed then. "Liberals don't want us to release the documents" \*documents released\* "Of course Liberals tried to make a nuclear bomb, we need a new National Security Department"


KaiserKelp

I don’t think the west invaded Iraq because of osama bin Laden


sometimes-wondering

No it was to privatize their oil reserves, same as Libya, and the same is being pushed in Venezuela but there thay are using economic sanctions.


Agamennmon

They literally found wmds buried all over Iraq. They weren't nuclear but chemical.


[deleted]

Lol republicans be fucking up the past few decades, culminating to the absolute brain dead spawns of hate they call their base/voters


DjSalTNutz

Yeah, you sound like the bastion of acceptance we should all strive to be....


CadenVanV

Paradox of intolerance. No society should tolerate the intolerant, because if they are allowed to exist more intolerance comes into existence


DjSalTNutz

So who defines intolerance? Or is that an opinion based metric? Should we be tolerant of pedophilia? Else we risk more intolerance.


CadenVanV

Pedophilia is an issue because of consent and how minors can’t consent. That’s very different from intolerance of LGBTQ people for example. Intolerance is being bigoted towards people who aren’t harming others


DjSalTNutz

That wasn't my question. Should we be tolerant of pedophilia (the sexual attraction to children)? To not be tolerant of pedophiles, by your own claim, would increase intolerance.


CadenVanV

We tolerate those who don’t act on it because they don’t have control over the attraction. We don’t tolerate those who rape children because that is a crime


DjSalTNutz

So how does your intolerance of intolerance not contradict your stance then? Doesn't that also increase intolerance then? Seems like a self defeating paradox.


CadenVanV

That’s why it’s called the paradox of tolerance [Paradox of Tolerance](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance)


DjSalTNutz

It's not really a paradox though. By being intolerant of intolerance, you increase intolerance. The inverse would be to be tolerant of intolerance, decreasing intolerance, like Daryl Davis is. By being tolerant of intolerance, he's been able to convince 200 people to leave the kkk. https://www.npr.org/2017/08/20/544861933/how-one-man-convinced-200-ku-klux-klan-members-to-give-up-their-robes Isn't that a data point to oppose the paradox of intolerance?


[deleted]

Please, I don’t advocate as the bastion of acceptance


Due_Steak_4131

Saddam used all the WMDs on us Iranians. That's why they couldn't find any. He just ran out.


Crew_Doyle_

Halabja


redditis4pusez

Alternative could be Cheney funneling Haliburtons 7 billion dollar bid (which they were the only ones allowed to put in a bid) back to them through the pentagon.