gridlock: ““Your Boy†went off the rails because he said that 9/11 was used as a justification for the Iraq War, which is manifestly false.”
I don’t believe you are correct. My recollection is that there were many people talking up the fact that Saddam was aiding and abetting Al-Qaeida and may have been “harboring terrorists”. I don’t know if GWB actually used this for justification of the Iraq war but that was certainly the “word on the street”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein_and_al-Qaeda_link_allegations
Bush administration invaded Iraq for 3 reasons:
1) Terrorism. Harbored, supported and trained terrorists. Abu Nidal. Salman Pak.
2) WMD threat. Which was exaggerated, yet WMDs were found in small amounts, like Polish troops finding shells with gas.
3) Saddam Hussein, evil dictator.
The biggest hypocrisy I personally noticed was the Bush administration going after terrorist sponsoring states after 9/11 (Bush doctrine) like Iraq, Yemen (Libya took itself off the list by complying with USA demands) but ignored the biggest boy, Iran. And Saudi Arabia with it’s Wahhabism and financial support of terrorism. Too many open ends.