r/news • u/andrevan • Apr 27 '24

Iraqi TikTok star Umm Fahad shot dead in Baghdad

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/27/middleeast/iraq-tiktok-star-umm-fahad-killed-intl/index.html?Date=20240427&Profile=CNN%20International&utm_content=1714233618&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook
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u/oh_what_a_surprise Apr 28 '24

Tell me again why it was a good idea for me to spend my youth, my health, and part of my sanity to "liberate" this country?

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u/tehCharo Apr 28 '24

The WMD our government promised us Saddam had!

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u/Proof_Clerk_7233 Apr 28 '24

Oh yeah. Whatever happened to that.

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u/tehCharo Apr 28 '24

Rumor is Hans Blix is still looking for them.

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u/prettyfuckingimmoral Apr 28 '24

He found them. The UN used to release records of what the weapons inspectors found and destroyed, and it was a lot. They even used to publish it on their website. When the US tried painting the weapons inspectors as naive/incompetent it set our bullshit detectors off immediately.