• KarlBarqs [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    15·
    1 year ago

    IIRC it gets deployed against every ontologically evil designated enemy. I know it was deployed against Iraqis during the first Gulf War, with Hillary Clinton claiming Saddam was issuing his troops with Viagra specifically so they could [redacted] more. This is me misremembering, see replies.

    • DictatrshipOfTheseus [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      I know it was deployed against Iraqis during the first Gulf War, with Hillary Clinton claiming Saddam was issuing his troops with Viagra specifically so they could [redacted] more.

      I don’t doubt r**e was a claim made against Iraqis too, but it’s the absurd claim about soldiers taking babies from incubators that most sticks out in my memory when it comes to Iraq and the first Gulf War. However, Hilary Clinton talking about soldiers being given viagra was definitely about Gaddafi. Keep in mind who was in power when those respective conflicts were happening.

    • BelieveRevolt [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Hillary Clinton claiming Saddam was issuing his troops with Viagra specifically so they could [redacted] more

      Wasn’t that Gaddafi? The timeline doesn’t match, since Viagra wasn’t even on the market until the late 90s (hard to forget the time hack Viagra jokes were suddenly everywhere). Also, why would Hillary have said anything? H.W. Bush was president then.