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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 5 points 20 hours ago

The US has wanted this war since 1979. The neocons in particular have been working towards it since Sept. 2001.

📺 General Wesley Clark "We're going to take-out 7 countries in 5 years."

“I just got this down from upstairs,” meaning the Secretary of Defense’s office […] “This is a memo that describes how we’re going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and finishing off [with] Iran.”