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Hours after the 9/11 attacks, the Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, asked a National Security Council meeting," Why shouldn't we go against Iraq, not just al-Qaeda?" Why did he ask this? What was the context?

by /u/PickleRick1001 in /r/AskHistorians

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