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Two decades of U.S. policy appear to be rooted in a mistaken understanding of what happened that day. archive
Two decades of U.S. policy appear to be rooted in a mistaken understanding of what happened that day. archive
This isn’t new. Also, this is a false narrative that the invasion of Iraq was ever about retribution for 9/11.
It was started because the Dubya administration insisted that Iraq had WMDs and implied that Saddam was planning on using them relatively soon
Not even that… W. had been planning to attack Iraq on day 1 because of the failed assassination plot against his dad.
That was Bush’s motivation. Cheney recruited him to be President while Cheney was head of Halliburton.
Halliburton made a metric shit ton off all this shit.
Cheney was WAAAYYY more involved in policy - especially geopolitics - than previous VPs.
Once W realized that Cheney was a lying sack of shit, he was banished from policy, but that wasn’t until almost the end of the second term.
Yes, the WMDs was the public reason.
WMDs was one of the excuses for invading Iraq. Another was that they hosted Al Qaeda people in the country. The administration started claiming Saddam Hussein was somehow involved in the 9/11 attacks within a couple of days. Here’s just one article I found from a quick search: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/9-11-and-iraq-the-making-of-a-tragedy/
Not my claim that it’s new, I copy pasted the article