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The Curious Case of the Croatian Commander-in-Chief

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The Curious Case of the Croatian Commander-in-Chief "Bigmouth Strikes Again" - Speaking out of turn on the War in Ukraine Niccolo Soldo In the run-up to the second invasion of Iraq, President George W. Bush  famously stated : “you’re either with us, or you’re against us”. By this point in time, Afghanistan had already been occupied, al-Qaida scattered to the winds, and the Taliban soundly defeated. The neo-conservatives then running US foreign policy were feeling their strength, and had set their sights on their old foe, Saddam Hussein, in order to ‘regime change’ Iraq in the name of “fighting terror”. It was all bullshit, as we now know. Hussein had nothing to do with the 9/11 terror attacks, but had everything to do with not stepping aside to allow US Empire to expand to the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, next door to the main Middle Eastern prize: Iran. Hussein would have to go, no matter how many lies needed to be told, no matter how many people would have to b