and as far as I am concerned, using 9/11 as an excuse to go after Iraq (which several people in the current admin have wanted to do for a long time - since the first gulf war did not yield the results they wanted)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...b&nav=hptop_tb
This particularly (snip):
On Capitol Hill, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said the United States did not go to war with Iraq because of new evidence of banned weapons but because it saw existing information on Iraqi arms programs in a new light after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
"The coalition did not act in Iraq because we had discovered dramatic new evidence of Iraq's pursuit" of weapons of mass destruction, Rumsfeld told the Senate Armed Services Committee. "We acted because we saw the evidence in a dramatic new light -- through the prism of our experience on 9-11."
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