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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
when did OBL state that we would invade a country in the middle east? before or after 9/11?
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I'm not sure about the timing, in all honesty.
Look, everyone understood when we went into Afghanistan after 9/11. It was clear what had to be done and why. Almost everyone was on our side. Then, before we finished the necessary work in Afghanistan, our esteemed president decided we had to invade Iraq ... where it wasn't at all clear why we wanted to invade. Nobody found our WMD arguments convincing, and for good reason, as it turned out.
As to your other point ... yes, it's true that some of our traditional allies were making money off the Iraq sanctions. But guess what -- so were American companies. Only gosh darn it, the law doesn't allow them to reveal which ones. Isn't that convenient?