Strange, I thought the opposition was generally to the war in Iraq, a country unrelated to 9/11. 9/11 resulted in the invasion of Afghanistan, which even Europe supported with the US. In fact ironically it was the war hungry republicans who neglected Afghanistan to go after Iraq, and the Democrats who have decided to refocus on Afghanistan, meaning that the democrats were keener in effect to avenge 9/11 than the republicans.
Nice dodge. It was the democrat controlled Congress that authorized the war in Iraq. Afghanistan was a useless target and if the Bush Administration had their way we would not have gone in there. The weeks before 9/11 all the training camps and headquarters had moved out of Afghanistan in anticipation of our retaliation. Only the Taliban and a few AQ types were left. On the other hand once we started our attacks in Afghanistan the news media started showing pictures of wounded AQ types in Iraqi hospitals. This was in violation of what the Congress put into law. Below is part of an article I wrote called “It all started with the Shah of Iran”.
September 14, 2001
Mr. DASCHLE (for himself and Mr. LOTT) introduced the following joint resolution; which was read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed (This was written by Senator Daschel)
SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION FOR USE OF UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES.
(a) IN GENERAL- That the President is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons.
September 18, 2001 the first in a series of anthrax mail attacks targets government and the media.
October 7, 2001 after being criticized by the democrats for not having attacked anyone yet, President Bush authorizes the invasion of Afghanistan and the destruction of Al-Qaeda’s safe havens. Liberals claim we can’t win. Why in the world did they scream we should bomb people if they don’t think we can win?
November 12, 2001 the ruling Taliban is driven out of the capitol city of Kabul. Wait, it can’t work and we will lose is what we are told yet in over a month we took the capitol city?
December 9, 2001 the Taliban collapses baffling liberals around the world who said it could not be done. After all the Soviets fought for ten years and lost badly and we did it in 2 months. The war is not over but the enemy is in retreat and is forced to fight only in summer months and in small pockets of the country.
January 29, 2002 President Bush identified Iran, Iraq, and North Korea as an “Axis of Evil” and pledges to deny them WMD. We were told that the president should not have done that, it will make these people angry at us and they might attack us. Iran has been attacking us since 1979, North Korea has been messing with us for 50 years, Iraq is the new kid on the block with only 11 years of messing with us.
October 2, 2002 Congressional resolution in part states:
Whereas the United States is determined to prosecute the war on terrorism and Iraq's ongoing support for international terrorist groups combined with its development of weapons of mass destruction in direct violation of its obligations under the 1991 cease-fire and other United Nations Security Council resolutions make clear that it is in the national security interests of the United States and in furtherance of the war on terrorism that all relevant United Nations Security Council resolutions be enforced, including through the use of force if necessary;
