Picking your Targets
So now we have a back and forth between the White House and the 9/11 commission on links to Iraq and 9/11. The fight seems to be between the White House claiming some (small, vague) link between Iraq and Al Qaida and everyone else in the world saying there is no link. I think this is framing the issue the wrong way. Even if some guy with Al Qaida ties met with some guy with Iraqi ties does not justify the Iraq War. If you drew up a list of countries with links to 9/11 will all available evidence Afghanistan would clearly be #1 with Saudi Arabia second and Pakistan a close third, next Egypt and so on. Iraq would rank somewhere below Germany. Why on earth did we pick Iraq as the second country to target as part of a global war on terrorism?
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The administration asserted that the Iraq war was permitted under legislation authorizing force against those who ''planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11." They were using strong claim of a Saddam-9/11 connection to motivate the war, and are now claiming that they never said that ("even though there was a connection").
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