The attack in Afghanistan was initially to attack Al Quada directly. It turned into a war against the Taliban when they refused to give him up. That went on for

The attack in Afghanistan was initially to attack Al Quada directly. It turned into a war against the Taliban when they refused to give him up. That went on for a year or so, but the drum beat of war against Iraq started on 9/12. There is a memo from Rumsfeld around then. [1] The fact that all the terrorists were Saudi, that Bin Laden was Saudi, that Iraq was an enemy of the Saud regime, that Iraq was a "buffer" between the rest of the Middle East and Iran, all of that was ignored. The war in Iraq was the US worst foreign affairs decision in the last 50 years. All of the "WMD" and then "bringing democracy" was retconning the original desire to finish the first Iraq war, which had nothing to do with 9/11. [1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/plans-for-iraq-attack-began-on-9-11/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/plans-for-iraq-attack-began-on-...