On another thread about September 11th 2001 DougR made a post I wanted to respond to - but I felt that thread wasn't the right place to do it. So this is what I would have posted there.

Doug indicates that he sees what happened in Iraq as genuinely a part of a war against the people who were responsible for September 11th, and as a way of fighting international terrorism.

Maybe this might give him pause. It has now emerged - front page in most British papers - that shortly before the war the British Joint Intelligence Committee advised the British Prime Minister that in its view the war was likely to "would increase the risk of chemical and biological warfare technology or agents finding their way into the hands of terrorists" and that the threat from Al Qaida "would be heightened by military action against Iraq."