It was very common for anti-war people to be accused of supporting Saddam Hussain. Being pro-war meant supporting freedom/democracy and being anti-war meant supporting oppression/dictatorship. It was just as asinine as the current “tankie” discourse, if not worse because all of the normies were also doing it which made it a lot stupider and more cringe.

A sadam apologist.

We were just called terrorist sympathizers back then. Bush literally went on TV and said “you’re with us or you’re with the terrorists”

That was the day I learned the truth of the phrase “one man’s freedom fighter is another’s terrorist”

Instead we got “Team America: World Police” which labeled them as juche-gang.

Super cool that some people on this website support literal radical Islamic terrorism 🙄

As a woman (half of Iraq’s population btw) and someone whose cousin could have been on one of those planes this whole discourse has been super alienating.

Like, I get it, I’m a communist, I don’t exactly like Bush, but Al Quaeda is a cancer that needs to be removed from this earth before anything else can grow.

A real democracy in Iraq would provide both better immediate outcomes and long term prospects for communism to thrive than its current radical fundamentalist terrorist supporting dictatorship. As a marxist I recognise it’s worth breaking a few eggs to make that happen, and you should too, unless y’all have suddenly decided the whole “revolution” thing suddenly isn’t worth it when it’s women who are being liberated 🙄

Probably yeah.

Imagine the response to people saying, “Hey, this video with a girl crying about babies being thrown into incubators might be faked.”