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I don't think that 9/11 was that big a deal. CMV.

I think that pretty much every citizen of the United States overplays the sheer disaster of the event. Sure, loads of people died and they should be mourned, but I don't think that everyone should treat it like a righteous justification to go to war in Iraq. There have been dozens of similar and more blood filled events in recent history, yet that day is held as the most important terrorist attack EVER. Maybe it's just that the US wants to play it up because they have that influence, but as a European I have barely heard of it recently outside of the internet.

EDIT: Just to clarify, I know full well that the Iraqi war isn't held in the highest regard by all citizens of the USA, but I stand by saying that 9/11 was used as justification (if unofficially).
gpt
You seem to be under the mistaken impression that americans use 9/11 as the primary justification for invading Iraq.  That was never the reason for invading Iraq.  We invaded Iraq under the (false) pretense that they had weapons of mass destruction and were planning on using them.  9/11 was not the primary reason for the invasion, though feelings of patriotism and anti-islamic sentiment that were leftover from 9/11 may have made us more receptive to the invasion.  That particular disaster happened two years prior to our invasion of Iraq.

You have a hard time understanding the significance of the event because you do not live inside of the US.  That was the biggest terror attack that had ever occurred inside our borders *ever*.  The World Trade Center was an iconic part of the New York skyline.  Every shot of new york in every movie had to have the twin towers as a focus at some point in it.  It would be like a terrorist slamming a plane into Big Ben in London, or the pyramids of Giza.

Terrorism was something that happened in other parts of the world.  The attack on the trade center was shocking.  Violence like that just didn't happen in the USA.  There have been other terror attacks since then, but nothing on a scale of the WTC bombing.

And finally, it was an international tragedy.  Of the almost 3000 people who died in the bombings, 372 were foreign nationals.  The US was not the only country who lost people in the bombing.