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Originally Posted by gstelmack
What I meant by "everything changed on 9/11" is what Cheney was saying: we no longer have the time to dick around with diplomatic niceties whenever we feel threatened. We aren't going to wait to be attacked first, because the bad guys out there can hurt us bad if we do. It's that simple. Yes, I firmly believe we would not be in Iraq right now if, everything else staying the same, 9/11 had not happened.
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You mean like North Korea, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia? Even if I agree with your "we no longer have time to dick around with diplomatic niceties whenever we feel threatened", how exactly does Iraq fit into that? How was Iraq even close to threatening us? We had basically emasculated their leader, who was reduced to bluster.
Yeah, we wouldn't have been in Iraq if 9/11 hadn't happened, because the Bush Administration used the climate of fear after 9/11 to go to war with Iraq, which is some the administration as well as the neo-conservatives of PNAC had wanted to do long before 9/11.