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People don't think much about Afghanistan already, yet that's the country that got invaded first after 9/11
To be fair, Afghanistan was actually involved in the 9/11 plot, unlike Iraq.
Funny, because it turned out to be Saudis. And Bin Laden himself was bunkered in Pakistan.
Yes, all 45 000 civilians killed by the US military were involved...
https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/human/civilians
It simply killed many fewer people with an at least half-assed justification, instead of an outright lie to justify a neocrusade.
Turns out it was also a lie in Afghanistan and the people who financed ObL must be laughing their ass off about it!