Was Cheney's convincing the far right that Iraq was involved in 9/11 so easy a caveman can do it?

Question

Anyone with the most basic of knowledge of the region knew how preposterous that conspiracy theory sounds.

Why did the far right fall such an outlandish conspiracy theory?

- for such - (above)

bromide (below) Thanks. Ditto.

Answer 1

The far right doesn't need to be convinced to fall in line with the assertions of their leaders. They only need to be told what to believe. A lack of critical analysis is pre-requisite to being part of the far right.

Answer 2

No they does no longer have. The Joint Chiefs and the Generals who have been adamant against it and observed no longer reason, the nuclear question grow to be fictitious and intelligence community grow to be at proper spotty. What Bush/Cheney did grow to be fire up war so as that no self respecting "citizen or baby-kisser" may well be against it. as quickly as that occurred the Pentagon and the intelligence container might fall in step, yet no longer formerly pointless human beings died. the relationship between 9/11 grow to be no longer fact. This united states of america under Reagan and under Bush had constantly been afraid to pin factor terrorism against Iran and Saudi Arabia and decide a close-by dictator somewhat. Iran provided the skills, the plan and Saudi Arabia provided the chief and the monies.

Answer 3

Lets make this simple. The CIA informed Bush that there were serious problems about remaining in Saudi Arabia. You may remember that the US military were there as an ally of the Saudis after the first invasion of Iraq. (The US has always has a policy of siding with an Arab nation against an Arab nation- hadn' t you noticed?)
Ok, Saudi Arabia is the World's largest oil producer. Got it so far? Good.
Now Bush has a problem, as the Worlds greatest oil importer and consumer, staying close to the oil supply or remaining on good terms with the supplier is a critical issue.
Bush had already got plans for the invasion of Iraq (not for occupying it but only for invading it and controlling the major oil installations and refineries). These plans were being sharpened with the help of the Neo-Conservatives (a largely Jewish and partly Israeli supporting group advising the President). OK so far?
So when Bush pumped up the heat on Saddam Hussein (always a good distraction from domestic politics) about weapons of mass destruction, despite all evidence to the contrary, Bush continued to use Israeli generated evidence that there were WMD (after the invasion they apologised for their wrong information) and ignored the UN team's claims that there was NO evidence of WMD.
Now, here we come to the important part to follow.. if Bush could not remain in Saudi and on good terms with them, being in control of the World's Second largest oil producer was the next obvious way forward and because of Saddam Hussein's behaviour, and a ready made plan it was just a matter of gaining publc support and international support against Saddam. You may remember that the hype of war fear was so effective that America ran out of duct tape as Americans sealed up their windows in case of attack by Saddam (yes I know it is hard to believe in an educated "western" country, but it just shows the level of gullibilty and the power of television)
Then a stroke of luck for Bush and Cheney. The downing of the twin towers! The tragedy of 3000 deaths. Without an obvious enemy to hit back at, and with an angry America seething with indignation at an actual attack on their homeland, only the second in its history, what better than a attack on a "bad" man like Saddam. (The US understands "good" and "bad" with all that Hollywood movies training).
Cheney and the administration made Saddam responsible for the attack in New York and for supporting Al kaeida. Of course` we all know today that these claims were not true. In fact we now know that the CIA were right originally and that the hijackers were almost all Saudis. OK so far?
Now Cheney as an oil man (in investment terms) made sure that during the invasion of Iraq and the bombing that all the major installations which would become suitable for US contractors to rebuild, were targetted - maybe not by smart bombs but by smart politicians.

So your question was - was it easy to convince the far right? Sure. When the towers fell, the testosterone was up. Getting the facts at a time when emotions were high was difficult. A perfect time for Cheney and others to play their own game. Unfortunately the war was originally claimed to be to search for WMD ( it was really the oil, stupid!), then when none were found, it was a war to liberate the Iraqi people. After Saddam it was claimed that the lives of Iraqis was better (yes hard to believe now, right?) and then the administration said it was a war to give democracy to Iraq, a democracy like that of the US (no comment), and finally because Iraq appeared to be turning into another Afghanistan, and to maintain the fear levels (and duct tape sales in the US), it has become the War on Terror. Why did the far right fall for a conspiracy theory ..... is it Hollywood again?

Answer 4

we didnt go into iran because of 9/11. Go back and do your homework. Try reading the public laws passed on the matter. The doccuments can be found by searching for the following:

Authorization to Use Force in Iraq
Iraq Liberation Act of 1989

There were 22 reasons cited in the authorization to use force alone. None of them were 9/11.

Answer 5

No. I think Bush and Cheney were involved with 9/11.

Answer 6

I remember a couple of days before it started and Saddam was on TV stating that he had nothing to hide and anybody could come see, he even invited President Bush to come. I guess nobody in the White house or Congress saw that, maybe only me. i sat there and thought OK, we can go in land check for all the nuclear suitcase bombs and everything will be settled down.

Unfortunately I think it was on a weekend and Congress was out partying and raising money and President "W" might have gone to Crawford, but still you would think if a guy in Mississippipi saw it on TV, then shouldn't someone in power have seen it. Well as I remember that was one of the times that the Vice President "disappeared". Take care.

Answer 7

I've never regarded that a reason for the Iraq war.
I'm not saying he didn't say this ... I don't know whether he did or not
Would you find us a credible source that has that Cheney quote in quotation marks?
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Heck...even finding it quoted in the New York Times would be interesting to see

Answer 8

I never heard Iraq was involved in 9/11. But I do remember the Dems screeching about Saddam in the 90's.

Answer 9

you don't have to look further than your first responder to realize how easy it was. It still amazes me how many people still think that Iraq was involved. Evan with all the information showing NO relationship. It can't imagine how people can be so easily persuaded.

Answer 10

the cave men are going to really insulted by comparing them to anyone who would listen to Cheney