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Skeptical Republicans are falling in line behind Trump’s Iran War push with this three-word mantra (www.independent.co.uk)

submitted 14 hours ago by dude@lemmings.world to c/news@lemmings.world

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[–] xerxes@piefed.social 6 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

For those of you not old enough to remember, this ("finish the job") was famously the same mantra used for the Gulf War when George Bush Sr didn't go after Saddam Hussain.

Well, his son took it to heart and went after Saddam a decade later in what is now universally seen as one of the stupidest wars the US every carried out.

It's like these people learn nothing from history.

[–] slothrop@lemmy.ca 7 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

finish the job

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 3 points 11 hours ago

tyvm

i refuse to click clickbait