Why do liberals always get Iraq and Afghanistan confused?

Question

Okay, I've seen this time and time again here so I asked the question a few days ago and all the liberals just said that I was the one that was confused.

Liberals- "We were attacked by al Quaeda on 9/11 and Bush invades Iraq???" Hello, liberals...that was Afghanistan!!! Did you forget about that other war?

We invaded Iraq because of countless UN violations after Saddam attacked another sovereign nation and because of the WMDs that he had and that everyone agreed that he had.

Why do liberals get so confused about Afghanistan and Iraq?

Edit: to you_been_schooled- thanks for proving my point that liberals have no idea of why we went into Iraq and always get the two countries confused.

Answer 1

liberals tend to forget these facts. God help us if they were thriving during world war two, or none of us would have gone into germany "Germany was not behind pearl harbor" theyd shout.

Answer 2

He did invade Iraq shortly after 9/11, and it seemed like an extension of the war in Afghanistan, which was a response to the attacks. I agree that the Afghanistan war has been forgotten, and that's too bad since it's the one they had less trouble justifying.

The UN violations happened a long time ago. We already went to war for all of that once. Saddam was terrible, he gassed the Kurds and committed various atrocities, but at the time Bush declared "Daddy's War part II" we had him in a box. Al Quaeda was/is not in Iraq. He didn't have WMDs. Now we're in a situation we can't get out of. That's why people are ticked off.

By the way, in my experience most liberals know that the cultures in the middle eastern countries (Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, etc) are all very different. Most cons I hear from just see brown people and assume they're all the same. That's why they get confused about who attacked us.

Answer 3

there's no confusion (and that i'm not a liberal). If Iraq violated UN directives it incredibly is their difficulty. to initiate with the UN isn't a international extensive government, it incredibly is not affiliated with the u . s . and non contributors international places at the instant are not obliged to conform with it. the explanation why you have that image is that the u . s . is a effectual member of the UN, approves maximum of its directives and use that as an excuse to apply militia rigidity on different international places. take a seem at different UN directives not so favorable to the u . s . regulations and you will see that the government reaction isn't continually that reliable related to the UN. WMD, actual or not, at the instant are not a reliable reason to invade in case you have faith approximately that the u . s . has one in all the two best determination of WMD. Iraq grew to become into probably around the 10th place. Saddam and his social gathering have been ruthless killers, little question approximately it. So the u . s . government makes a decision to waste extensive quantities of money from the taxpayer's wallet to end a gang that killed hundreds interior the final years collectively as, in straightforward terms interior the final year, in simple terms approximately a million individuals have been murdered (many thousands and thousands interior the final years). Your supplies flow to remedy non-issues collectively as actual issues that impact you on a on a regular basis foundation are omitted. and don't get me began with the suppression of your civil rights. All that so which you will take a ethical stand and teach the way you're making a extra perfect international for each guy or woman. you're taking a ethical stand in front of the international and all of us can see you collectively as your wallet are being emptied by capacity of your guy or woman government who's additionally checking what else you have in there, working a background verify on you, locking you at the back of bars to your guy or woman risk-free practices, sniffing what you consume, drink or inhale, telling you what to verify, see or pay attention, choosing the incredible wellbeing shield you, telling you the thank you to teach your guy or woman young little ones, taking them away if it thinks you're doing a foul activity... Why human beings such as you in many circumstances have the actual matters at a loss for words?

Answer 4

Excuse me, but I think it is Bush and Cheney who continually bring up Iraq when discussing those who perpetrated the 9/11 attacks. To this day, Cheney still says that he believes there was a connection, even as he admits all our intelligence agencies say there wasn't.

I will guarantee you that for the first 2 years of the Iraq war, 90% of Americans who supported the war would tell you we were there to retailiate for 9/11. Why would they think something like that??? Because that's what Bush and Cheney kept telling them.

Answer 5

It's conservative who are confused. They believed along with a duped America that going to war in Iraq after the Afghan invasion had to do with 911 because Bush and his boys did their best to link the two events together. I have found it sick since the beginning that Bush used the tragic death of 3000 citizens to push forth a plan under false pretenses. I have no problem with us being in Afghanistan people their actually attacked us and Pakistan may need a kick in the butt too so we can get Bin Laden.

Answer 6

no confusion on my part
Afghanistan was attacked in retaliation for 9/11
the Taliban were effectively neutralized as was al-Quaeda until the Bush administration focused on Iraq in retaliation for Saddam Hussein's attempted assassination of his daddy.
there were no weapons of mass destruction
there was alot of OIL at stake and who gets to control that OIL is what we are fighting about now
the rest is obfuscation
you however have confused the first Gulf War with the present war in Iraq

Answer 7

We did not treat Afghanistan the way we treated Iraq. We went into Afghanistan with a few thousand troops followed by some CIA guys carrying suitcases full of cash hoping to buy the capture of Bin Laden. Guantanamo is filled with the fallout of that failed tactic.

If we had gone into Afghanistan with the same amount of energy we expended on getting Saddam, we would have gotten that prick Bin Laden.

Answer 8

I've never heard any liberal saying that Iraq attacked us on 9/11 or that they had any connection to Al Qaeda. I've seen and heard alot of conservatives making those assertions without a single fact to back up their claims. Liars.

Answer 9

If you were able to pay attention, you would know that it is the liberals who constantly remind you cons that Iraq had nothing to do with 9-11.

common_nonsense: If you had the reading comprehension skills and reasoning capabilities of a third grader, you would realize the absurdity of your claims.

Answer 10

I haven't forgotten Afghanistan OR Bin Laden. Has Bush?

Answer 11

Nice spin, but liberals aren't confused about the two. I think the people confused about the two are the ones who say we have to be in Iraq to get the people who attacked us on 9/11 and the "we have to fight them over there so we don't fight them over here" crowd.

Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. Most liberals supported going into Afghanistan to get the people that attacked us, they don't however support going after Iraq. UN violations? What about all the UN violations of Israel? or any other country for that matter? Why not go into Saudi Arabia (where 14 of the 19 hijackers were from)?

Stop spinning and think for yourself.