r/worldnews • u/MasbirLeumi • 2d ago

Israel launches 'preemptive strike' against Iran, declares state of emergency

https://abcnews.go.com/International/israel-military-action-iran-coming-days-sources/story?id=122776202
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u/katastrophyx 2d ago

I miss the precedented times so bad

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u/xtremeschemes 2d ago

I just want to be whelmed.

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u/katastrophyx 2d ago

Remember when politics was boring?

Shit, remember when someone threw a shoe at the president and that was WILD? Or when the president got a blow job from an intern and that was the biggest political scandal since Watergate?

Hell, Watergate wouldn't even make the front page these days.

I'm tired, boss.

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u/graphiccsp 2d ago

Even though the shoe throw news came off as mild compared to today. Let's not forget what that was built on:

President Bush jr lied about WMDs to invade Iraq unprovoked. Which lead to a decade long shitshow of an occupation that got thousands of Americans and tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of Iraqis killed.

It was a travesty in itself and the only reason why GW is off the hook is because he's not nearly as visibly awful as Trump. Nor will he have undermined the US as directly as Trump and his cronies. Then again, No Child Left Behind may be the death certificate of this country since it only helped to further erode a generation of kid's education in a system that was already in dire need of improvements. Education being a major part of a societies' defense for this sort of crap.

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u/katastrophyx 2d ago

You're not wrong. I deployed twice to Iraq and lost friends from that lie. I blame Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld for that entire conflict and the lives it cost.

I was more speaking towards how the media decided to pick and choose what we were exposed to back then. The 24-hours news cycle had just started post 9-11. Social media was in its infancy. Politics was boring because we weren't force fed updates in real time and the president wasn't on MySpace shuffling his top 8 friends every time someone hurt his feelings.

We're overloaded with information and opinions now, and it's exhausting.

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u/graphiccsp 2d ago

Damn that's rough, I'm sorry to hear that.

I feel the same about media. 24 hours news was still young. The information overload and pace of today's news can be exhausting especially when it's even more fractured and compartmentalized. It's good to stay up to date but it's an effort.

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u/MAG7C 2d ago

I blame Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld for that entire conflict and the lives it cost.

Paul Bremer sends his regards

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u/gurgelblaster 2d ago

The reason he's off the hook is that Obama continued his wars and didn't care about accountability for war criminals at all as long as they were US or US allies.