Even the BBC has joined the Iraq <----> 9/11 party!

In My Humble Opinion
1

I was watching the 10 o’clock news on BBC1 last night and could barely believe my ears when I heard the newsreader pronounce that “the attacks… led two years later to the downfall of Saddam Hussein”.

Huh?

Has the “9/11 payback” mantra become such an article of faith that even the BBC now parrots it unquestioningly?

Anyone else think it does a disservice to those who died to drag their memory into an illegal invasion, on the anniversary of their deaths?

2

I’d hazard that without the attacks, the US could not have got the public support required for the PNAC’s little outing. (Though sometimes I do wonder…)

Or do you think the commentator was being less subtle than that?

3

Well they did didn’t they.

They didn’t say that Iraq was involved in the attacks. They said that because of the attacks TWAT was kicked off in a big way and the Iraq War was sold as part of that.

4

Clarification: the [current] US [government].

5

Thank you for reminding me of one of 2001’s best acronyms, sadly soon passed over in favour of the dull sounding War On Terror. (WOT no WMDs?)

6

Don’t let the bastards grind you down. TWAT it was and TWAT it remains :smiley:

7

It’s GWOT. I know, I have the medal.

8

Since I wasn’t familiar with the acronym, I checked Wikipedia, according to which

So waddaya mean

9

The War Against Terror

10

I wish I had taken a screengrab of that BBC News broadcast from I suppose September 2001 when Huw Edwards or whoever it was was standing in front of a giant caption that looked like this:

The
War
Against
Terror

They soon changed it to something like War on Terror.