Also, don't forget the bang-up job the administration did linking Iraq and 9/11 in the public mind, despite there being no evidence to support that. That's the ultimate justification right there--if 9/11 had never happened, Bush would have slinked into the history books undistinguished and unnoticed. 9/11 gave him an opportunity to bring about what has turned out to be the single greatest foreign policy disaster in American history.
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