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Originally Posted by arista

Yes Evil Saudi Arabia Bin Ladens Clever Master Plan
Worked so well as the metal melted in the structures
due to the Oil Burning getting Intense and Super Hot
from those 2 Deadly Planes.



And What Stupid Evil G W bush do
Carpet Bombed all the Iraqi public in one Deadly go.

And Iraq had Feck all to do with 9/11.

No thats not the whole truth.

Bush declared war on terrorism. Formed the Office of Homeland Security and brought in the USA Patriot Act of 2001. And also invoked article 5 of the NATO pact, meaning all NATO countries should help in any subsequent military actions in response to the attacks.

At the same early intelligence led the US to believe Al Qaeda to be at least part responsible for the attacks. Consequently they asked the Afghanistan Government (the Taliban) to hand over the Al Qaeda leaders located in their country and close the training camps. (Something the US had been demanding for over a year as they wanted Bin Laden and co for other attacks)

The Taliban refused as they had not been furnished proof of the link between Al Qaeda and the attacks. The US then led an invasion into Afghanistan to remove the Taliban, capture Al Qaeda leaders believed to be in the country and close the terrorist training camps.

Part of the intelligence that led the US to Al Quaeda and Afghanistan was furnished by an Anti taliban fighter called Ahmad Shah Massoud, he not only identified terrorist camps but also stated a couple of months before 11 Sept, that Al Qaeda would attack either mainland US targets or European targets in a massive attack.

Massoud himself was assassinated on the 9 Sept 2001.

Iraq itself was invaded under a separate pretext, in that they had failed to co operate with the UN Monitoring Verification and Inspection Commission and for non compliance of UN resolution 1441. The US believed that Iraq had the capability of launching Biological and chemical attacks on the Eastern US seaboard.

There are uncomfirmed reports of an agreement between Bush and Blair to invade Iraq and remove Hussein from power with or without UN agreement in Jan 2003.

The invasion of Iraq started March 20 2003.