Whoopi Goldberg Claims Bush Skipped Afghanistan to Attack Iraq
Gee, that’s news to me because I recall a very concerted effort that resulted in the breaking of the Taliban’s grip on that country.
The View” co-hosts, typically very loose with the facts, demonstrated that again on the March 10 edition. Ironically accusing the Bush administration of lying to take America into war with Iraq, Whoopi Goldberg put out false information herself.
GOLDBERG: Let me say, let me say this. Now, when it all went down at 9-11 and he said “we’re going get him.” I was like “come on Georgie, let’s go.”
HASSELBECK: Right,
GOLDBERG: But he didn’t go where he said we were going. See, that’s where I got, because I woke up the next morning, we were in Iraq. I was like, what? I don’t think we’re in Afghanistan. So, for me-
Whoopi must have slept through the 17 months the United States was in Afghanistan before invading Iraq. On October 7, 2001, less than a month after September 11, the United States began its military campaign in Aghanistan. The United States did not attack Iraq until March 19, 2003. Even after the Iraq invasion, the United States retained its military presence in Afghanistan.
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