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Anti-Iraq was even bigger for sure. And I am not sure they happened directly after 9/11 or only months later. But the sentiment was obvious, many people do still not believe the official narrative and can't excuse starting a war for a wrong narrative. Pretty sure demos startet after the first related WikiLeaks leaks?

On a side note I would be surprised if Wikipedia had a line for a few hundred young lefties demonstrating in a basically forgotten country like austria. When I say huge, I mean relatively, Austria ain't big. But there should be Media and pics somewhere I guess.

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>Pretty sure demos startet after the first related WikiLeaks leaks?

That's like a decade after the war started.

Even in the US, by the time of the Iraq War a significant chunk of the population had turned anti-Afghanistan war, but resistance was very limited in the month between September 11th and the start of the war.

Sorry but the OP is right. Everyone in Europe was shocked and very, very angry that the US attacked yet another country that wasn't a threat to it and had nothing to do with 9/11.

Even today, I personally have no idea what the US went to do in Afghanistan. Iraq, at least, had oil. But, Afghanistan? What was the point?

I think you have your history very mixed up. The connection between Afghanistan and 9/11 was very clear to everyone.

(And in case you genuinely don't know: the Taliban were openly harboring Al Qaeda including Bin Laden. The US ordered them to either hand him over or allow the US to pursue him. They refused. So, the US eliminated the Taliban.)

>the US eliminated the Taliban.

Removed the Taliban from power, they still very much exist.

Fair enough, "eliminated their government".

>yet another country that wasn't a threat to it and had nothing to do with 9/11.

As the other poster said, Afghanistan's connection to 9/11 was clear, not even Afghanistan denied it.

But I'm curious why you say "yet another country." Between September eleventh and October seventh which other countries do you think the US attacked?

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