Why were Afganistan & Iraq invaded by the USA after 911?

Question

15 of the 911 hijackers were Saudi.
Usama Bin Ladin is a Saudi
Al Queda is Saudi
911 and Al Queda were Saudi Financed

So why did the USA attack Afganistan and Iraq but not do anything about Saudi Arabia?

http://archives.cnn.com/2002/US/11/23/sa...

Answer 1

because bush and the saudis are friends they stay at his house and they have oil deals together but the big reason is that cheney and haliburton wanted the oil in irag the bad thing about all of this is that both bush and cheney ran the other way when they were told to fight for their country but have no trouble telling lies to get other peoples kids mothers and fathers killed cheney is still getting paid by haliburton

Answer 2

This is a very good point. In fact it's worse than you think... Bin Laden is a member of the Saudi royal family.

However, Afghanistan is where many of these men were trained as terrorists, and the government of Afgahnistan at the time supported the Al-Qaeda movement. The Saudi government did not support them, even though the religious climate in Saudi Arabia makes it a good place to recruit.

As far as Iraq goes, there was no reason for the USA to invade Iraq, and that invasion had nothing to do with 9/11 or Al-Qaeda, though many Americans assumed it did. All the reasons offered by the US government for going there turned out to be lies, but even those reasons did not include any connection to 9/11.

If you believe the US did it to get Iraq's oil, then maybe that's the reason. If you believe that Bush did it to enhance his popularity by defeating a known enemy, then maybe that could the reason. If you believe that God really did tell Bush to invade Iraq, then maybe that's why. If you believe that Bush is simply nuts, maybe that's it. Who knows, really?

Answer 3

The Taliban ran the government of Afghanistan on 9-11. The US gave the Taliban the ultimatum to turn over OBL and al Qaeda or face the consequences.

They didn't, so the US took over the country with a handful of Special Forces guys and air power.

One of the main goals of al Qaeda is to overthrow the Saudi Royal Family and "recapture" Mecca. The 9-11 terrorist were hand picked because they were Saudi's. I can't think of a better M.O. to attempt the overthrow of the Saudi Royal Family than using Saudi born terrorist to attack the US...

Answer 4

Point of interest, Usama was born in Saudi Arabia, but at the time of 9/11 was considered a traiter to Saudi Arabia.

Personally, I think you know that Afganistan had a large amount to do with 9/11 and terrorism in general and you're just playing ignorant

Answer 5

The US invaded Afghanistan because that's where Al Qaeda (the organization that attacked us) was based and given support by the Taliban, the ruling party of Afghanistan.

Saudi Arabia is simply the country where most of the terrorists came from. The country itself, the people, & its leaders were innocent.

INVASION OF IRAQ
This had nothing to do with 9/11. We explicitly invaded Iraq because we thought Sadam Hussein, its leader, had weapons of mass destruction that he refused to turn over to us. He didn't.

OIL MOTIVE?
There was no oil motive in invading either country.

Afghanistan has no oil.

As for the oil in Iraq, we did not "get" any oil, nor will we. That would be stealing. Anyway, before we invaded Iraq, Iraq was selling as much oil as the world wanted. There was no need to invade Iraq to get oil.

Countries with oil have to sell it to make money. They very much want to do this. Invasion is superfluous

Answer 6

they were Saudi, but intelligence reports at the time believed that the headquarters of the the orginization that planned the 9//11 attacks were based in Afghanistan. US went into Iraq to topple Saddam Hussein from power.

Answer 7

Because Oussama Bin Laden was repordedly in Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia supplies oil to the US, the US needs Saudi Arabia so invading it wouldn't make much sense.
As for Irak, it was about those misterious weapons of mass destruction...which never existed.
Now they are trying to make us believe it's a humanitarian mission to 'free the people' of Irak...that's just bs
If you want my opinion, I think it's because after the end of the Cold War, the US needed a tengible ennemy, they need to justify all these military spendings, so they just picked a country and invaded it.

Answer 8

human beings the international over might hate the U. S. yet those comparable anti-u . s . a . of america tens of millions might bounce on the possibility of working and residing in u . s . a . of america given the alternative. u . s . a . of america nonetheless stands for peace, freedom, liberty, regardless of... besides the actuality that the caretakers of the Founding Fathers' techniques have each each now and then overpassed it. the main severe factor appropriate to the U. S. is that a President isn't continually - the device do not enable a President to serve better than 8 years. i think of a international with out u . s . a . of america is a international with out wish. in basic terms suicidal looney boxes might do yet another 9/11... not human beings. guess my existence on it.

Answer 9

Because the Saudis are willing to deal with the corrupt capitalists in our government and the people of Afganistan and Iraq are revolutionaires and understand what America is up to. Rape and pillage!

Answer 10

Major General Smedley Butler explains why in this excerpt from War is a Racket:

War is a Racket
By Smedley Butler

War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the many.

I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we'll fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag.

I wouldn't go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.

There isn't a trick in the racketeering bag that the military gang is blind to. It has its "finger men" to point out enemies, its "muscle men" to destroy enemies, its "brain men" to plan war preparations, and a "Big Boss" Super-Nationalistic-Capitalism.

It may seem odd for me, a military man to adopt such a comparison. Truthfulness compels me to. I spent thirty- three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle- man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.

I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all the members of the military profession, I never had a thought of my own until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.

I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.

During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.