• breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Huh? Osama bin Laden was 11 when Saddam Hussein became vice president of Iraq. He was in university when the president resigned and Hussein became president and then was fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan during the early years of his rule. Al-Qaeda had no presence in Iraq before the US invasion - and didn’t even exist until a decade after Hussein became president.

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      1 year ago

      I love you.

      Let’s start here. You’re a great fact checker.

      Osama Bin Laden was celebrated by the Regan administration for uprooting soviet interests in the region, no?