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I was a kid during all that, but my recollection is they didn't directly try to claim that he did? It just seemed like the country was swept up in the patriotic "glass the middle east" fever and went with it because murica fuck yeah, and it was part of the GWOT, but the messaging was all "evil dictator wmds etc." and not "saddam did 9/11." Though I was probably in high school before I could even articulate the difference between Iraq and Afghanistan, so I could be mistaken.
9/11 and Iraq: The making of a tragedy
New headcanon, Bush knew the Saudis were behind 9/11 and invaded Iraq specifically to fuck them over. /s
Interesting read though. The 80% number believing Iraq was involved is not surprising to me, I just didn't realize the bush admin actually pushed that narrative.
Bush 100% knew the Saudis were behind it, so not sarcasm.
The US wanted a base in the Middle East that wasn’t SA, and Iraq was an easy target. They didn’t care about destabilization. That was a perk. It was all about force projection from a central base.
Yeah, it was crazy times.