The Iraq War Was About Oil - Response to Kraut, GDF & Johnny Harris
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It's becoming more common to see people argue that the 2003 Iraq invasion had little to nothing to do with oil. Let's look at the USA's decade-long assault o...

Shocking news, I know, but a good historical overview

  • B00merMemes [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    18·
    5 months ago

    It’s funny that people deny this now when we were all making “Oh your country has oil? Sounds like you need some freedom 🦅😏” jokes in the 2000s

  • D61 [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    7·
    5 months ago

    The joke from when I was in the army at that time was that the name of the operation originally was Operation Iraqi Liberation but somebody caught on fast enough that the acronym being OIL was just too on the nose.

    I honestly don’t know if that was purely a joke or if there was any truth to it.