Product of our media?
<a href'http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/03/11/Iraq.Qaeda.link/>CNN
Many Americans who watch U.S. news coverage have accepted Saddam as the new enemy. Europeans have a different outlook.
"The European media, by contrast, have been very skeptical of the war, very aggressive of covering the anti-war movement," explained Kurtz, "and some people think they have a strain of anti-Americanism -- or at least anti-George Bush."
A 911 connection isn't need.
An association between Iraq and Al Qaeda is all that's required.
Historical actions of Iraq's leadership made it a singularity among countries that Al Qaeda call home.
The "why not attack the other countries with Al Qaeda" argument is getting tiresome.