Why does Bush try to make it seem like Iraq was linked to 9/11?

Question

"The United States was attacked on September 11 and many years earlier, well before we toppled the Saddam Hussein regime,"

This is what Bush said in a news story I read, should be on the Yahoo front page. What I don't understand is if Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, why does this statement that Bush has said, seem to imply that they did?

Is this a way of missleading Americans to the voting booths?

Answer 1

I kind of feel bad for Americans. Bush is making them all look bad, when he's the only stupid one. I'm still for the theory that both elections were rigged.

Answer 2

"The United States was attacked on September 11 and many years earlier, well before we toppled the Saddam Hussein regime,"

The above statement is a reference for use in pinpointing timeframes. It would take an uneducated hollywood-level idiot to find a "link" between the two events from that statement.

Answer 3

It's the only way he could justify a war he had planned for a long time. In 'The Fog of War' Robert McNamara said America in the 1960s assumed the Communists in Vietnam must be connected to the Communists in China, when in fact they were not. This was an important lesson, but Bush and others with a shallow grasp of world affairs assume all US-hating, Muslim/Arab crackpots like Saddam and bin Laden must also be connected - but they had very different aims and ambitions despite sharing a common enemy (America).

Answer 4

Point one, that quote when read correctly states that the attacks were NOT linked to Saddam and, in fact, Bush has stated on many occasions that Iraq has never been linked to both WTC attacks (2001 and 1993).

But is the GOP using fear of terrorism to gain political power? YES

Answer 5

Here's your connection. Terrorist attacked the WTC and Pentagon on 9/11/01. Iraq under Saddam Hussein had been supporting terrorists for a very long time. And he was blatant about it. Having photo ops of him giving money to the families of suicide bombers.

Do you believe we should allow GOVERNMENTS who openly support terrorists to remain ignored? That is like saying during WWII we shouldn't have attacked Germany just because Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. Germany had nothing to do with the attack on Pearl either but they had the same intentions.

Answer 6

Saddam Hussein was anti-terror. Not because he liked the US or "freedom" of course, but for pragmatic reasons. Saddam, being secular and running a secular regime, saw terror as a threat to him personally.

Answer 7

Bush, good Christian man and chronic liar, must know that the majority were Saudi. Why not criticise Saudi? Well they just happen to buy a lot of things like guns, planes, tanks, bacon, bullets and they might go and buy them somewhere else if you don't suck up to them.
P.S. I don't think the bit about the bacon can be right. Is that Israel?

Answer 8

supporting terrorists is not a reason to invade a country. If it were than we should be attakced for putting both saddam and bin laden in their currtent positions. we made it possible for both to come to power, so aren't we responsible for their actions. when saddam was gassing his people he was our boy, but we used that as a reason to invade him over 10 years later. we paid bin ladens family to build our military bases. on th e morning of sept.11 bin laden;s father was eating breakfast with bush sr.
Maybe we haven't found him because bush dosen't want to find him.

Answer 9

who cares now? why wasn't he stopped in the first place? because everyone was so blinded by 911 and because Saddam was made out to be a liar. Weapons of mass destruction - remember those? they were never found. whatever. we are there for the oil. nuke it and turn it to glass. I can't see how people live there anyway. It is a wasteland.

Answer 10

Yes. Its a pretence Bush uses to make the US citizens think he is actually doing something about terrorism. He admitted he doesn't even look for bin laden anymore, i think that is proof enough that Iraq was nothing to do with his so called 'war on terror'.