Right, Bev and Jerry. To be fair to Bush, I don't recall hearing him ever actually saying outright that Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11, but by the time he and several others, such as Rumsfeld and Powell, got through with all their spins and pirouettes during their flood of speeches and press conferences leading up to the invasion of Iraq, an overwhelming percentage of the populace believed that it was Saddam, or at the very least, bin Laden with Saddam's backing who had done it. Was it Goering who said, "If you repeat a lie often enough and brazenly enough, the people will believe it?" I guess that also works when it's a lie by implication.

Don Firth