link. Of course the reddit logoors downvote bombed the people pointing this out.

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      How can he not understand being a part of an invading force makes him guilty by association? A (former) soldier still thinks he was saving lives instead of destroying them, as if Iraq didn’t have clinics or vaccines before his organization bombed them.

      On a more positive note, even people like this support Palestine.

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        This seems like a textbook case of cognitive dissonance. Like they have some of the right ideas, but squaring those with their actions pretty clearly casts them as the bad guy and that’s hard to deal with.

        That being said he was still part of an illegal invasion force and a war criminal, so I’m not too concerned

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        as if Iraq didn’t have clinics or vaccines before his organization bombed them

        They literally do believe this, people probably still think Iraqis lived in mud huts before the American bombs of freedom and prosperity fell

        Although they may have been right about not having vaccines because of the sanctions by their own government

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      I don’t think he was worse than Saddam

      The American urge to say the stupidest shit imaginable

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        Americans are never worse. It doesn’t matter how many civilians they kill, how many wars they start, how many countries they invade, how many nukes they drop… they’re always conveniently better than the side they’re destroying. God, I sincerely, sincerely wish for a war on American soil one day, to repay everything they have plagued the world with tenfold. I won’t have an atom of sympathy for any of them.

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      I never once fired my weapon in your country. I simply ensured the people firing weapons at your people were in optimal health to do so.

      I’m ashamed that the war took place. But I’m not ashamed in nursing war criminals back to health so they could go back and kill more civilians.

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        “I didn’t kill those people, I just shipped ammo to the military base”