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Nobody believed that they had direct involvement beforehand. The thing you have to understand about the pre-2003 middle east is that groups that are currently flagged as Iranian proxies, like Hamas and Hezbollah, were Iraqi proxies at the time. The connection between Iraq and Al-Qaeda was that Al-Qaeda was an Islamic terrorist group that was benefitting from the networks and resources of Iraqi backed, anti-Israel groups.
The reason that the US jumped from Afghanistan to Iraq was that Saddam Hussein had pledged to support the Taliban and its remnants following the US invasion.
Although we now know that there were no chemical weapons in Iraq, we also know that this is only because the Iraqi government was lying to Saddam Hussein - everyone else, including Saddam Hussein, believed that Iraq had chemical weapons. Given Iraq's overt anti-American posture following Afghanistan, there was real concern that Iraq would use one of its proxies to use chemical weapons against the US.
The anti-war propaganda on Iraq had basically rewritten pre-invasion history. What we now know is that everything Iraq was doing was a farce to maintain leadership of the Islamic world while intimidating Iran. But the fact was the pre-2003 Iraq appeared to be a well armed, irrational, and hostile country. They were openly threatening to use their network of proxies to attack the US using chemical weapons while at the same time relying on France, which was heavily invested in the Iraqi economy, to secretly tell the US about how everything was a farce. Except whoops, France never did that until after the invasion.
Nobody believed that they had direct involvement beforehand. The thing you have to understand about the pre-2003 middle east is that groups that are currently flagged as Iranian proxies, like Hamas and Hezbollah, were Iraqi proxies at the time. The connection between Iraq and Al-Qaeda was that Al-Qaeda was an Islamic terrorist group that was benefitting from the networks and resources of Iraqi backed, anti-Israel groups.
The reason that the US jumped from Afghanistan to Iraq was that Saddam Hussein had pledged to support the Taliban and its remnants following the US invasion.
Although we now know that there were no chemical weapons in Iraq, we also know that this is only because the Iraqi government was lying to Saddam Hussein - everyone else, including Saddam Hussein, believed that Iraq had chemical weapons. Given Iraq's overt anti-American posture following Afghanistan, there was real concern that Iraq would use one of its proxies to use chemical weapons against the US.
The anti-war propaganda on Iraq had basically rewritten pre-invasion history. What we now know is that everything Iraq was doing was a farce to maintain leadership of the Islamic world while intimidating Iran. But the fact was the pre-2003 Iraq appeared to be a well armed, irrational, and hostile country. They were openly threatening to use their network of proxies to attack the US using chemical weapons while at the same time relying on France, which was heavily invested in the Iraqi economy, to secretly tell the US about how everything was a farce. Except whoops, France never did that until after the invasion.
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