Bush: Iraq "Nothing to do with 9/11"

Can I be the only one who recalls the president (certainly not my president) justifying his invasion of Iraq with very specific things? I mean, say what you will about me because of my beliefs on 9/11, inside jobs, conspiracies and the like, but the facts remain that Bush used 9/11 as one of the catalysts to invade Iraq. Oh, good, turns out I'm NOT alone in my memories:

President Bush was in the midst of explaining how the attacks of 9/11 inspired his “freedom agenda” and the attacks on Iraq until a reporter, Ken Herman of Cox News, interrupted to ask what Iraq had to do with 9/11. “Nothing,” Bush defiantly answered.

To justify the war, Bush informed Congress on March 19, 2003 that acting against Iraq was consistent with “continuing to take the necessary actions against international terrorists and terrorist organizations, including those nations, organizations, or persons who planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001.”

As ThinkProgress has repeatedly documented, Vice President Cheney cited “evidence” cooked up by Douglas Feith and others to claim it was “pretty well confirmed” that Iraq had contacts with 9/11 hijackers.

More generally, in the lead-up to the war in Iraq, the administration encouraged the false impression that Saddam had a role in 9/11. Bush never stated then, as he does now, that Iraq had “nothing” to do with 9/11. Only after the Iraq war began did Bush candidly acknowledge
that Iraq was not operationally linked to 9/11.

It is my belief, no, my hope that, may it take one year or ten, the Lie of the Century will be fully unveiled to the world, and once that happens, everything will change. Long shot that it may be, things like this give me hope that these criminals will be caught in their web of lies sooner than later.