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> Saddam had actually believed 9/11 would bring Iraq and America closer because Washington would need his secular government to help fight fundamentalism. How w
by goalieca 10y ago
> Saddam had actually believed 9/11 would bring Iraq and America closer because Washington would need his secular government to help fight fundamentalism. How woefully wrong he had been
That was an interesting thought if you take the war on terror at face value. But as he said, he did not listen to what was actually going on and being said. The war was never about terror.
- mcguire 10y agoIt was reasonably clear out here at the time that going into Afghanistan wouldn't deliver a clean, glorious war that would ensure Bush's reelection.