Originally Posted by kane

It's not hard to see the pattern here.
-Bush takes office.
-Bush has always wanted to invade Iraq.
-9/11 happens
-Al Qaeda is named as those behind the attacks
-We invade Afghanistan where Bin Ladin and his crew are hiding.
-Now is a prime to time remove Saddam from power.
-Bush then starts to sell the public on Iraq. He tells everyone they have weapons of mass destruction and ties to Al Qaeda. The public - many of who can't even find Iraq on a map - immediately assume that this means Saddam was involved in 9/11. It's not much of a hard sell.