Teribus, you say Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. Good man - you're clearly becoming immune to the right-wing spin. Some others (who clearly lack your intellectual rigour) are not, however.

Gary Schmitt, of the Project for the New American Century (endorsed by Wolfowitz, Perle et al), writing in 2005 states: "Saddam's Iraq had always been a home for and supporter of various terrorists, including a key participant in the 1993 World Trade Center attack. But what the mainstream media have largely ignored is the evidence of contacts and an evolving relationship between Osama bin Laden and Saddam in the 1990s.
Focused on the narrow question of whether Saddam had any hand in the attacks of 9-11, they have ignored the reports coming from prisoner debriefs, uncovered internal Iraqi intelligence documents and, for that matter, declassified Clinton-era National Security Council memos pointing toward a budding "marriage of convenience" between Saddam and bin Laden. As Thomas Kean, the co-chairman of the 9-11 Commission, put it: "There was no question in our minds that there was a relationship between Iraq and al-Qaeda."

We also have the testimony of Richard Clarke who says he was ordered to find a connection between 9/11 and Iraq.

And, of course, Bush himself in 2004: "The reason I keep insisting that there was a relationship between Iraq and Saddam and al Qaeda: because there was a relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda." And in 2003: "Iraq has sent bombmaking and document forgery experts to work with al Qaeda. Iraq has also provided al Qaeda with chemical and biological weapons training."

Is it any wonder that 44 per cent of Americans believed that Iraq was responsible for 9/11.

Bravo Terry! With your confident and dogmatic assertion, it seems as if you're going to cross the floor and join the sane world in denouncing such neo-con nonsense! Welcome on board. It's a shame you weren't around in the aftermath of 2001 to put those silly Americans right, but better late than never, eh, love?

And let's hope that your Damascene conversion marks the moment when you stop writing 'crap, absolute crap'.