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Originally Posted by TheMercenary
I base it more on an administration whipped into a frenzy over 9/11 and a series of intell failures. If you read Woodward's books on the issue there was a combination of serious intell slip ups, an over zelous CIA director, who to this day still has failed to accept responsibility for his part in pulling the trigger, and and a president who was a puppet of his staff. Many of us doubted his decision to go to war in Iraq and the majority of the people around me at the time knew we were taking our eye off the ball in diverting the attention away from the Afgan Theater.
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Whipped into a frenzy, then perpetrated a halfassed retaliation in Afghanistan, maybe? But they had two years to figure out what was to be gained from attacking Iraq, and that was strategic position and natural resources. Plus Haliburton wasn't making squat in Afghanistan, and troops are just an expendable resource, for politicians. They'll spend your kid, to grow their wealth.