1. We? Very few people thought Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Certainly not the rest of the western world. Probably not even the Bush administration. Remember the main source - Curveball. Remember the administration's reaction to the definitive Miller investigation of the yellowcake source.

2. Iraq had NOTHING to do with 9-11. Iraq was a secular nation that had been FIGHTING the ultra-religious Al Qaeda for many years.

Shooting in the dark at scary things is no way to conduct foreign policy. Oh, never mind.