Why do Americans think Iraq did 9-11?

Question

Source: No WMD. No Iraq people aboard those Planes that hit WTC. No threat to the USA from Iraq. Why are we fighting in Iraq?

Answer 1

Credulity in the masses makes them easy targets for the government. Americans in general have a poor understanding of world history, and even a more unsatisfactory grasp of other cultures. Our education system, with, I believe, great complicity and even encouragement by our government, ensures that each successive generation knows even less about the world than the previous one. I know that makes me sound like a conspiracy theorist, but just a casual observation of today’s educational system will bring you to the same conclusions. With our marginalization of history classes, or overemphasis of U.S. history over world history, and our virtual exclusion of culture studies, we are creating, with each generation, a group of automatons that will easily subscribe to whatever absurd theory the government chooses to propagate. That is why we are committing the same historical blunders in Iraq, that we did in Vietnam. Quite simply we have not been exposed to the history of man enough to learn from it.

The reason why the American people are so easily duped by their own government, and accept, with the gullibility of a child, Bush’s rationale for going to war, is precisely founded in their collective ignorance of world history and global cultural dynamics. That is why, though there is not a scintilla of evidence linking Iraq to 9/11, Americans so easily lumped Iraq with Al Qaeda, and all other forms of Islamic terrorism. You have to think that before 9/11, few Americans knew what terms like Wahhabism Sunni, Shiite, jihad, mujahideen, Qu’ran, Hadith, Fatwa, and intifada really meant. Much of the rest of the world was familiar with these terms. With such blatant ignorance of Islamic culture it was easy for the Bush administration to play on this lack of awareness and lump all Muslim nations under one category. Hence, Iraq got conflated with Al Qaeda, and by extension with the acts of 9/11, and soon we are at war with a nation who had nothing to do with the conflict. Our ignorance of Middle Eastern history and the instrumentality of Islam also allows us to entertain the implausible notion that we can establish a democracy in a culture, which in reality, is completely inimical to democratic ideals.

In the final analysis, the only way to stop this distortion from happening in the future, is for us to start revamping our educational system, so that our electorate is more cognizant of the world around them. A population highly educated in math and science at the expense of subjects dealing with humanity will be a population that gives sanction to grossly immoral and asinine acts.

Answer 2

The USA did not go to war in Iraq over 9-11. Threats made by Saddam Hussein were given more weight after 9-11.

The USA went to war in Iraq to remove the government of Saddam Hussein. The USA had the right to do this based upon the Iraq war in 1990-1991 which concluded in a end under the terms of a ceasefire agreement after Kuwait was liberated. The conditions of those terns was that Iraq was to limit the size of its Army, reveal all aspects of it's weapons of mass destruction programs, and cease production of weapons of mass destruction and yield to UN inspections to verify this compliance. This war never done. Saddam Hussein did all possible to evade this agreement and to reconstitute the Iraqi military and these WMD programs. Plus he led a propaganda campaign in order to give the impression that he had these weapons or was near to having these weapons. Reason is that the world watched the defeat of the conventional Iraqi forces, and to help Saddam maintain power and influence in the world a he had to project power, and the best method to do so with a defeated army is to bring up the wonder weapon, and to give the world the impression that he still had a powerful weapon. And Saddam on a number of occasions stated that he would one day have the power to destroy the USA and Israel.

The Iraq government did sponsor and finance a number of terrorist organizations. The Iraq government even expelled the UN inspectors at one time a clear violation of the terms of agreement which should have been an overt at of war. There is a link that exists with an Iraqi army major and the perpetrators of the first attack on the WTC. That is the only link with terrorist operation that is known dealing with the official Iraqi intelligence agency.

After 911 with Saddam in violation of the UN agreements for over 10 years and a number of intelligent agencies, not just the CIA, stating that there does exist the possibility that Saddam is presently on may soon be able to have an atomic weapon. Knowing that the developer of the Pakistani atomic bomb had been in Iraq on at least 2 occasions. What would you have done if he was threatening your country. Bin Laden had also stated he would attack America for years, he built camps in Afghanistan, and he finally did. How could a President sit there and do nothing. And wait for an American city to be vaporized?

Answer 3

Ok, enough about the WMD. We didn't know they didn't have them until we were already there and the fighting was over. What do you do then? Give it back?

It was acknowledged at the start of the war by everyone in the Administration that Iraq wasn't involved in 9/11. The purposes for invasion were: your precious WMD, terrorist training camps in the desert, violation of 17 or so UN resolutions that all called for 'dire consequences', Saddam's support for terrorism abroad, and Saddam's treatment of the Iraqi people (using those pesky WMD on the Kurds).

We are fighting there to secure a moderately friendly democracy in the middle east. A 'decadent', western-backed government there would be a huge blow to the prestige of the Islamic Fundamentalists who make up most of the insurgency. If we fail there, Iraq will become the same terrorist training ground it was before we started. Probably worse, because then they'll see us as weak and ripe for violence. We are also striving to improve the quality of life of the average Iraqi (a task made nearly impossible by the presence of insurgents who live amongst the local population). We destroyed the infrastructure of Iraq to find the weapons that Saddam had bluffed the world into believing he had. Once we were there and found out he didn't have them, it became our responsibility to put it back together. That's where we are now.

Answer 4

If you would pay attention you would know that nobody said Iraq did it. It has been proven that Iraq was aiding and abetting al queda and hammas. They did have wmd weapons, we found the remains of artillery shells that had been emptied and still had residue. They had second thought about using them. The U.N. claims that 500 tons of yellow cake ( uranium ) is missing from where they had it locked up in Iraq. They didn't take it with them when they were expelled. Now it is gone. 500 TONS. duh. What do you call that. Is that alone enough to wake you up? The Euphrates river had massive amounts of poison chemicals dumped into it upon our invasion. Where did it come from? Fish pissing in the water? He gave families of successful dead terrorists $25,000 for the suicide bombing. He had agents in Nigeria trying to purchase enriched uranium and also more centrifuges for making plutonium. This evil dictator gassed thousands of Iraq's own people as well as Iranians. It turns out that Russia, Germany,China and France were selling him weapons and equipent to make WMDs in trade for oil. While the planes that hit the WTC were piloted by Arabs, not Iraqi people, he did support their cause. It didn't start in Iraq. We first went to Afganistan. He helped the insurgent terrorists there. He defied all of the U.N. resolutions. Just on that he should have been invaded, but the U.N. being as corrupt as they are were paid off, so nothing was done. Wake up and get off the drugs. If you get away from the biased far left and look for the true facts you would know all of this. The real question is this, who do you want to win? The terrorists? Or the rest of the world. Where do we fight them? Do we wait untill they bomb us again? And then what? You have all sorts of condemnation for people fighting against terrorism, where is your condemnation of what the terrorists do?

Answer 5

Again with the propaganda, erudite??

America does NOT think Saddam and Iraq orchestrated 9/11
WoMD components WERE FOUND in Iraq, just not reported heavily by the liberal media
Iraq WAS a threat as they would not comply to mandated resolutions and having a HISTORY of paying for suicide bombers AND a history of the willingness to use chem and bio weapons and a history of doing anything to hurt or defy the US

Why are we fighting in Iraq??? Read the original justification for Desert Storm/Desert Shield. Read the cease-fire agreement. Read the listed violations of the terms of cease-fire.

Educate yourself, you Tokyo Rose

Answer 6

There is no proof that Saddam was behind 9-11. In fact, he had great hatred not only for Iran, but for Bin Laden. I have been opposed to the war from the beginning because my rationale is that Saddam did serve as a known entity, evil at that, but he was a political and military buffer between Iran, Israel, Saudi Arabia & other nations in the region. There is an old saying, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend." Saddam may have been a sadist, but he wasn't stupid. He was the best possible means to stop any Iranian ventures beyond their borders. Both would have kept the other in check. Now everything is volatile, unpredictable, out of control. Now there IS a larger threat to the US, much more than before the war began. The insurgency problem is only the tip of the iceberg.

Answer 7

I certainly don't think Iraq had anything to do with it and I would say that alot of Americans would agree. The truth is that the majority of the hijackers of those planes had ties to Saudi Arabia. Amazingly though we are still allies with them despite this fact.

We also know that we were misled as a country to go into Iraq based on false pretenses of Iraq having WMD. Despite the fact that there were none and that civil war is essentially breaking out there we still continue to "liberate" the Iraqis. I think it is sad what has happened to their country and all of the lives lost there...

Answer 8

Because some people can't add 1 + 1 to get 2.

You, for instance, seem to be incapable of putting two brain cells together for long enough to realize that your endless trolls on Yahoo!Answers are utterly feckless. Yet you persist in your lunacy.

Answer 9

First of all if you are following rumors then we are not even fighting for 9-11. Its all weapons, oil and a lot of money involved. Cmon you know Bush is fighting Iraq not us, soldiers. And another thing even if we are blaming someone for 9-11 then it wouldn't be IRAQ, to be politically correct we are blaming terrorists, insurgents in Iraq that use Iraqi land for their vicious plans.

Answer 10

iraq had nothing to do with 9-11. we went to war for other reasons. one of them being that we suspected Saddam had nuclear weapons. i know what you mean though... a lot of people thought it had something to do with 9-11. I don't know if they mislead us on purpose or it just kinda happened like that because it was around the same time.