Why did we go into Iraq?

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So why did we go into Iraq? Clearly Saddam was conspiring with Al Qaeda. Apparently top anti-terrorist officials who get promoted don't know the difference between Al Qaeda (which is blamed for everything excepting ending the world) and other entities. No wonder the administration would put out repeated Orange Alerts for threats that did not exist. No wonder this nation's top anti-terrorist investigator was all but driven out of the FBI by the George Jr administration. When propaganda demands blaming everything on Al Qaeda, then no wonder the George Jr administration never mentions Muslim Brotherhood. Apparently they even don't trust FBI agents that speak fluent Arabic. Apparently they don't yet know what the Muslim Brotherhood is. Or maybe its just too convenient to pretend Muslim Brotherhood does not exist.

from NY Times of 19 Jun 2005
In Letter to Senators, Lawyer Criticizes Top F.B.I. Officials
In a 15-page letter, the lawyer, Stephen M. Kohn, wrote that the F.B.I.'s top counterterrorism officials said in sworn depositions that they did not know the relationship between Al Qaeda and Jamal Islamia, a South Asia offshoot of the terror network. Nor were they aware of the linkage between Osama bin Laden and Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, a spiritual adviser to Mr. bin Laden with whom he had been closely associated since the 1980's.

Mr. Kohn said that F.B.I. Director Robert S. Mueller III, in his deposition, seemed unsure of Mr. bin Laden's relationship to Sheik Rahman, who is better known as the blind sheik and was convicted in 1996 on terrorism charges. Asked if he was aware of their relationship, Mr. Mueller is quoted in Mr. Kohn's letter as saying he was not.