I'm not really sure why everyone needs some sort of direct link between 9/11 and Iraq. The ideology of the 9/11 terrorists is rapid through out the Mid East. Just pick a Mid East country. Iraq was just convenient and better located than Afghanistan. Anyone think we're not fighting Al Queada right now in Iraq?

I think Al Queada had no any plan to draw the US into a war and I'm sure they didn't have the foresight to see the invasion of Iraq let alone Afghanistan.

I hate using the word invasion to describe what happen in Iraq. Invasions are planned and the more I study this war in Iraq the less I believe there was a plan. 20,000 troops do not hold a city of 5,000,000, yet that's what was on the ground the first few weeks in Baghdad.