You keep trying to fall back on dodges like "nobody in charge has made this claim". But that's not what I said, and I called you on it the first time. Bush's speechwriters have standardized on a cheap (but very effective) rhetorical trick involving juxtaposition of Iraq and 9/11 to deliberately communicate that claim while providing a tiny figleaf of deniability that partisans like you can use to try and deny that they actually said it.

I couldn't locate the recent MSNBC article that provided a lot of examples. But when I went to whitehouse.gov and looked through a few of Bush's speeches, I was struck right away by the metronomic quality of the trick: "Iraq...9/11... Iraq...9/11... Iraq...9/11... Iraq...9/11... Iraq...9/11... Iraq...9/11... Iraq...9/11... " ad nauseum in damn near every statement he's ever made on the subject of Iraq.

This is not an accident. The use of repetition is a well-known rhetorical device to induce an almost hypnotic state of uncritical acceptance in the victims in which the desired linkage slips below their critical faculties.

And you know that.