The US went into Afghanistan to steal all their shit and used 9/11 as an excuse. Plain and simple.

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78. Horse shit

Of course we went into Afghanistan because of 9/11. I agree it wasn't about women's rights or anything like that because that was a problem before 9/11 and no one gave a shit. But to say it had nothing to do with 9/11 is nonsense.

We know for a fact the neocons were looking for an excuse to attack Iraq, and wanted to use 9/11 to do so. They weren't that interested in Afghanistan at all but essentially had no choice. They had to go into Afghanistan first while they worked on trying to tie Iraq to 9/11 as well and cook up a pack of lies about WMDs.

Bush and the neocons completely dropped the ball in Afghanistan to go after their real target.