07-19-2016, 02:07 PM
(07-18-2016, 02:29 PM)McC Wrote: The military wanted to be established in the ME. Afghanistan was not the kind of place where you launch an all out invasion. They needed to go into Afghanistan through Iraq. They needed an excuse for the world to go in and they would deal with any consequences later. And they could feel good about taking a genocidal maniac former ally out of power.
Our military was already established in the Middle East. The military was already in Afghanistan for over a year before the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The military didn't go to Iraq to get into Afghanistan . . . that's just asinine. Look at a map.
