from the providence journal

one HELL of a letter to the editor (from rod driver - Rod Driver is a retired University of Rhode Island mathematics professor and a former state representative. )
and mr driver, i'll bet if you asked people on the street why we're in iraq, you'll get a LOT of 'because of 9/11' in there. people STILL actually believe that (less and less but they are STILL out there).

Rod Driver: A Web tour of Bush lies on Iraq
Rod Driver
SOME 33 PERCENT of Americans, according to polls, and most in Congress still support President Bush’s war in Iraq.
And I can’t blame them if they lack Internet access and depend on the mainstream media for news. They may still be unaware that (1) George Bush and his friends wanted war with Iraq years before 9/11 and (2) Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11.
If you don’t have Internet access, please visit a library and go to the Web site of “The Project for a New American Century” ( www.newamericancentury.org). Still displayed there are letters written in early 1998 to then-President Clinton and congressional leaders urging U.S. “willingness to undertake military action” against Iraq. The letters were signed by Elliott Abrams, Richard Armitage, William Bennett, John Bolton, William Kristol, Richard Perle, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, James Woolsey and others who would come to power with George W. Bush three years later.
Upon first taking office, in January 2001, President Bush immediately sought reasons to attack Iraq ( www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2005-09-02-WMD-indepth_x.htm).
And one year after the tragedy of Sept. 11, 2001 — with all but one of the hijackers being from Saudi Arabia —- George Bush started saying “Iraq is the central front in the war on terror.” Bush, Vice President Cheney, Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice and others made similar statements dozens of times. ..............