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> The US public needed some more important foreign blood to be spilled than Afghani. And that's the way the cookie crumbled... I really don't see how you can r
by zardo 5y ago
> The US public needed some more important foreign blood to be spilled than Afghani. And that's the way the cookie crumbled...
I really don't see how you can reach that conclusion that prime mover on the Iraq invasion was the US public at large.
- asveikau 5y agoYeah, it was more like dishonest politicians suggested to the US public that Iraq and 9/11 were related and a lot of people didn't know the difference, and didn't bother to learn. In that respect the US public was responsible and at fault. But not a "prime mover" as you say. I thought Richard Clarke's book a few years later was pretty informative. Iirc, in his telling, they wanted to attack Iraq before 9/11 happened, and when it did happen, many in the administration didn't care at all who did it, they just wanted Iraq to pay. There was a line attributed to Rumsfeld "but Iraq has better targets".