How is Iraq linked to the terrorism of 9/11?

I'm not talking about the quagmire we are in now, with insurgents tearing up the place, but the actual terrorist act on 9/11. Bush seems to think they are linked, thereby justifying our war in Iraq. I just see the connection. Please explain it to me.

How is Iraq linked to the terrorism of 9/11?
Iraq Linked to 9-11 and Oklahoma City Bombing


Wes Vernon, NewsMax.com


Monday, Sept. 9, 2002
Reply:There wasn't any. The Bush people know they made a mistake, and won't admit it for purely political reasons. We are in Iraq now and started a fire. We all need to work together to put it out. It's hard to do so when the Bush faction continues to lie about how the fire got started, mainly because you can't operate such a concerted effort with mistrust of the other participants motives - what else should we know that they won't admit that may prevent us from correctly attacking the problem, for example.
Reply:Everybody admitts there was no link now. I saw president say "nothing" to that exact question in press conference few weeks ago. See if you can find that transcript somewhere. But their argument still is Iraq is part of war on terror.
Reply:it is one of buh lies
Reply:There is no factual link - it is only ion the minds of people who are ill-informed.


Even Bush says so








Bush says 911 and Iraq not connected!!


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Reply:There's not a direct link.
Reply:Dont know
Reply:there was no link at all. saddam was on the other side of the islamic philosophical divide from bin-laden and al-qaeda.


Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda were alleged by U.S. Government officials to have established a highly secretive relationship between 1992 and 2003, specifically through a series of meetings reportedly involving the Iraqi Intelligence Service (IIS). [1] In the lead up to the Iraq War, U.S. president George W. Bush alleged that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda might conspire to launch terrorist attacks on the United States[2], basing the administration's rationale for war, in part, on this allegation and others. The consensus of intelligence experts has been that these contacts never led to an operational relationship, and that consensus is backed up by reports from the independent 9/11 Commission as well as by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, whose 2006 report of Phase II of its investigation into prewar intelligence reports concluded that there was no evidence of Saddam Hussein ties to al-Qaeda.[3] Critics of the Bush Administration have said Bush was intentionally building a case for war with Iraq without regard to the facts.
Reply:these r just lame n childish excuses for attacks n only dumb, blind n deaf one wud belive....