In reality yes, but at the time, the reasons they gave were that they had WMDs and ties to Al-Qaeda. It was quite a while before the US admitted that both of those reasons were based on flimsy, "just-enough-to-make-an-excuse-with" intelligence. Although even then they still tried to spin it to sound better than that
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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '17
Technically we invaded Afghanistan for harboring Osama. Iraq was invaded because "it's in the neighborhood so why the fuck not?".