Reply #18: Wilson had to convince the US to go to war. [View All]

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The war was about shipping lanes, but it was also about fighting for nacsenent democracies of working people (France and the UK) and against monarchy and imperialism.

Conservatives in the US didn't want to fight in the war because they thought there'd be more money in a Europe in chaos.

So, Wilson had to build an argument to overcome that conservative impulse.

So, the difference in the US is that, with Iraq, Bush didn't have to build a consensus to go to war. The corporatocracy wanted it, so he didn't have the hurdle Wilson had. Furthermore, unlike WW1, which was a war to protect nascent democracies no matter what the corporatocrcay thought, Iraq was a war where the money for the corporatocracy was in an imperial invasion that has no intention of creating a real Iraqi democracy (the US wants something like Saudi Arabia, where a lot of oil money goes to hiring US companies to pillage the country with development projects).