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Originally Posted by Garry
Dale, we can fall into long dispute... Bush told a lot of lies about WMD/ A-Q ties with Iraq etc... his people too. Americans were sold war based on 9/11 which had NOTHING to do with that. And they bought it thinking that they respond to 9/11. No they come to understanding that they were WRONG..... and that is why public support is going away....
This is reality....
Answer just one question - DO YOU THINK THAT WAR IN IRAQ WAS POSSIBLE WITHOUT 9/11? DO YOU THINK PEOPLE KNEW THAT SADDAM IS NOT LINKED IN 2003?
If you come to the same answers as I did you will know what I think
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Garry,
Americans may have conflated 9/11 and Iraq, but the war wasn't based on 9/11. Sorry, I paid attention to the build up to the war, and other than the Atta - Prague link which was never sold as a definite contact in my mind, there was no Saddam supported 9/11 case being made.
Instead, it was built upon the WMD that Saddam possessed and never accounted for, resulting in over a dozen UN resolutions, blah, blah, blah.
Now, the case for the war was seen through the lens of 9/11, but this is different than it being built upon 9/11. Feel free to conflate this if you like, as many Americans did, but that doesn't make it correct.
Also, care to explain why every intel agency got the WMD thing wrong?