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To: GST who wrote (111127)8/12/2003 5:07:01 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
But Saddam did not give a clear provocation, and 9/11 became the pretext for an invasion that could not be politically justified prior to 9/11. After 9/11 it was simply a matter of lumping Iraq in with the "war on terror".

Yup. 9/11 gave them the political cover to do something that they thought was desperately necessary, but they could not have done before.


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