BTW Saddam needed to be taken out. It does not matter wether Saddam was connected to 9/11 or not (although he was behind the 1993 bombing), he was a threat to us and to Israel.
You're dreaming.
Yes it does, because 9-11 was the reason, publicly stated, that we went on war footing. Responding to an attack -- and responding to the attacker -- should be the number one priority. Otherwise, it would be like responding to Pearl Harbor by invading Venezuala because we had some old unresolved beef with Venezuala, even thought it had nothing to do with Pearl Harbor.