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Soleron on 22 May 2009
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highwaystar101 said:
megaman79 said:
its a conspiracy. Did you ever think to read the entire 9/11 report that was published? No, well neither did i so who know's if he actually did it.

The truth is if i believe a war, that killed up to a million civilians, was started because of oil then why wouldn't you believe 9/11 might have actually been someone else?

To be honest the Iraq war was just about oil. They didn't want to find Bin Laden because he had nothing to do with the Iraq invasion and they didn't give two tosses about Saddam for the previous 5-6 years when he was actually doing evil stuff. It was just, we have an excuse with terrorism to go over there, let's go for it.

 

I don't believe that. I agree it wasn't against Bin Laden specifically, but I think the US felt threatened* by Iraq's lawlessness and influence in the region. And the (wrong) WMD report was enough to justify the invasion, with the terrorism thing as cover. Of course, as soon as they turned up, it became a terrorist cause and they created terrorist cells in Iraq where none were before.

If they had waited for UN approval (or the inspections results that said there were no WMDs) it wouldn't have happened the way it did. Bush was impatient and ill-informed. And my own country was willing to do anything he said.

*As in, genuinely threatened. Not humanitarian concern.