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[bib_specialist]

I found this on a blog, and thought people here might find it interesting:

"If only we had forgiven Iraq for 9/11"

I have now received three (3) student papers that discuss Iraq's attack on the Twin Towers on 9/11. All three papers mention it as an aside to another point. I've had two papers on the virtue of forgiveness that argue that if we had

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[funnel101]

I am curious. If we went to Iraq because of 9/11, then why did we go to Afghanistan? *arcs*

[tbonestg]

Pipelines.

[tbonestg]

While one could place the blame for 9/11 on Iraq (Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait was the reason US troops were based in Saudi Arabia which was the reason Bin Laden gave for declaring war on the US), if these students are skipping a step and leaving out a few of those caveats, then...I dunno, try hitting them with a stick or something.

[jonesa3]

... Iraq was behind it all along?

Sometimes undergrads just amaze me. But don't we all have stories of special students?

The one that really gets me is the essay asking "why God allowed "the Iraq's" to attack us on 9/11." That just takes the cake.

[star_cabaret]

Sometimes undergrads just amaze me.

And what about presidents?

[dravogadro]

Stop promoting your anti-American liberal agenda with these facts.

[jonesa3]

I know. Those pesky liberals and their fetishising of the "facts".

[alierakieron]

Everyone knows that facts have a liberal bias.

[comodulate]

so true these days.

[aeolian_harp]

Sadly, it took me a few minutes to pinpoint what exactly was wrong with that header. Iraq is now so tied up with 9/11 that Americans are fully convinced they are the ones responsible for it.

[sibilance7]

Word. I felt the same way. I've become desensitized to the utter nonsense going on in our government, so when I see illogical statements like these, I don't think anything of it. This terrifies me.