• hedgehogging_the_bed@lemmy.world
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      24 hours ago

      The second line of the article really sums it up from my perspective. “President George W. Bush was obsessed with the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and deliberately misled the American people about who was responsible for the 9/11 attack.”

      I was curious how the nebulous connection between Iraq and Afghanistan was perceived by those who weren’t as aware of the older Bush’s history in the area. In the hours following 9/11, a common question among my peers was “How will this be twisted into us going into Iraq?”

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        My sister & godmother worked across the street and my partner’s dad was one of the narrow misses because he sent a colleague to the Towers that day in his stead. That whole mess probably started my slow descent into radicalisation, now that I think about it. I watched people around there with no connection to the event directly react around me while we couldn’t get ahold of my sister for a few days. It was very surreal.