> the Iraq war is as related to terrorism as vending machine crush deaths This is just wrong. Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, but 9/11 provided the political

> the Iraq war is as related to terrorism as vending machine crush deaths This is just wrong. Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, but 9/11 provided the political cover that the Bush administration needed to take the country to war. Absent that terrorist act, there's no way that the American public and the international community would have stood by and allowed the US invasion to take place the way that they did because of 9/11.