"A senior US official said [#bush] needed a ‘dose of reality’ to deal with [#Fallujah], documents reveal"

The "dose of reality" being "if you collectively punish a city in the style of Nazis in eastern Europe then the population of the country will resist you to the bitter end and will never accept your puppet government."

This was April 2004, 16-17 years before the predicted outcome came to pass.

#UkPolitics #NationalArchive #Iraq #Blair

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/dec/31/advisers-urged-tony-blair-to-rein-in-george-w-bush-over-iraq-war-mission-from-god

Anybody here know Joe Biden? Or any high-ranking federal figures? I want to encourage them to immediately begin safeguarding critical information in these precious two months before the Project 2025 flunkies start erasing files.

#archive #knowledgebases #libraryofcongress #nationalarchive