Originally Posted by onetime2

A few things:

He said he has not seen hard evidence of its proof, that's not quite saying definitively that there was no link. He then asserts that the intelligence community beliefs have changed over the last year or so. Again, that does not say there was no link just that the possibility has become more remote.

And as Mr Mephisto said, Iraq was not invaded because of 9/11 but I suspect no one here wants to recall that because it's much easier to believe that the big bad Bush administration in its true to form evil ways went into Iraq because Saddam Hussein planned the 9.11 attack.

Bush's state of the union address (you all remember the one since so many bitch about his words "you're either with us or against us") clearly said he would go after countries who support, sponsor, and give terrorists safe harbor.

Terrorism does not just equal Al Quaeda.

And, since I haven't said this in the last couple of days, one of the main reasons Iraq was invaded was because its defiance of the UN and US accords were an example to every country who was considering ignoring world efforts to stamp out terrorism. If the worst that the world can do to you is sanction you while allowing you to retain power over your country and continue to fill your pockets through things like the oil for food program there isn't all that much of a consequence if you decide that you'll allow Al Quaeda or other terrorist organizations to operate within your borders (or do not do much to root them out).