‘Neocon Lies’: Ron Paul Claims Iraq War Created Al Qaeda – Mediaite

Former Texas Congressman Ron Paul is taking a healthy online flogging for his tweet about the origins of terror group Al-Qaeda.

Remember, the libertarian firebrand wrote as he watched President Donald TrumpsMonday night speech on Afghanistan, there was no al-Qaeda until our foolish invasion of Iraq based on neocon lies.

Paul has long been critical of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, spearheaded by the hegemony-fetishists in President George W. Bushs administration.

But Pauls latest critique of the war contains a glaring factual error: Al-Qaeda existed long before 2003 (Remember, Ron: the group orchestrated the September 11, 2001 terror attacks that supposedly justified the invasion of Iraq)

Osama bin Ladenactuallyformed the terrorist organization, dubbed Al-Qaeda, in 1988 during the Soviet War in Afghanistan a conflict between Soviet armies and the U.S.-backed Afghan mujahideen.

The group was created by bin Laden and other prominent members of the mujahideen, who would go on to conduct a number of terror attacks around the world in the 1990s, with the successful attack on New Yorks World Trade Center coming in 2001 followed swiftly by the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan after the countrys Taliban regime failed to hand over bin Laden.

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