re: #238 A Three Hour Tour

The US’s side. Saddam’s antics with weapon inspectors throughout the nineties vexed the Clinton administration as well.

The “attempts to connect Saddam to Al-Qaeda” were pushed by talk radio idiots, proto-magats out in the sticks who think all muslims are the same, and of course the Fox News Couch Tumors™. The Bush administration to my knowledge never went beyond saying that “Saddam’s antics” made the US look weak and like a paper tiger in the Arab world and emboldened terrorists, and that’s why they had to deal with that situation. Because we left Saddam in charge of Iraq in 1991, he’d been spinning the Gulf War as a victory for him ever since.

There were many other, more important to the Cheney crowd, reasons of course, and a lot of bullshit and smoke mirrors, and exaggerations, and not accepting new information when it was available that lead to it, but literally directly pinning 9/11 on Saddam wasn’t really one of them.