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Afghanistan would probably have happened under a Democrat. Iraq almost certainly not. Clinton got shit for holding off on intervention in Rewanda Because he was gun-shy after Somalias black hawk down incident.
I don't think Gore would have ordered a ground invasion of Iraq. Bush ordered the Surge. Obama listed to Patreus and ordered the mini surge and then mostly pulled out when thr Iraqies asserted their independence and refused to allow the US military continued immunity from all crimes.
Yes I mean ICE. Democrats have refused to do the right things, yes, but they have been consistently less cruel and escalatory than Republicans, maybe you forgot Obama created Daca when congress killed the dream act? Who supported that law? Democrats or Republicans?
Netanyahu has pitched the idea of decapitation strikes against Iran to every president since Bush and they all told him that's a stupid idea and we won't go along with it, including Trump first term, when he still had advisors like Mark Milley who understood up from down.
We have every reason to think Harris would have told Netanyahu to shove it just like Biden did.
What fantasy world do you live in? It's certainly lot this reality. The war plans Trump used the first time he bombed Iran were from war games drawn up by the Biden administration. Biden 100% backed netanyahu.
I am so happy this thread is so old now that it no longer matters whether or not I engage with your fantastical imaginings. This whole alternate world you're making up where democrat-
??? You're straight up deranged. What world are you living in? Biden bypassed congress to give Netanyahu more bombs.
But he didn't start a war with Iran. What world ste you living in?
This will be my last response since you made the absolutely ludicrous statement that the democrats (who ran on doing the war better) would not pursue war with Iraq. They were fucking rabid for war. When you say such a thing you show yourself to be either completely detached from reality, or a troll. So I will write now and keep it to that.
The one where he was a rabid zionist willing to do everything for Israel, the one where the democratic nominee said this:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/8/kamala-harris-says-iran-is-greatest-adversary-of-us
October 2024:
The one where whitehouse insiders admitted they were preparing for war
Don't worry you would have supported the war under Biden because he would have made up some bullshit about 100's of thousands of dead protesters and you would have clutched your pearls despite never looking into it.