Of course, what we are alleging in this thread now is that Bush and his cronies, whether or not they personally believed Saddam was tied to 11 September 2001, sought, successfully in the end, to persuade the US public that the two were in fact tied.

It is clear that they did in fact make this case to the US public--as I said, successfully--indeed this is probably the major method they used to marshal support for their invasion of Iraq, especially by raising the spectre of September 11 devastation multiplied by the (phantom) WMD at Saddam's disposal.

More later.