"Judge whether good enough [to] hit S.H. at the same time. Not only UBL"...quote from a memo sent out by Dick Cheney, at 2:40 pm on
September 11, 2001
Source
Political-Military Plan For Post-Saddam Iraq, dated Jan 31 2001, sent to Paul O'Neill. The plan is still classified (though it's easy to find, just google for "Blank fucking sheet of paper").
The neo-cons have been wanting to go into Iraq to serve their own political agenda since just after they managed to heist the oval office. There is no Iraqi threat, never was. 9/11 is just an excuse, and the fact that most Americans can't tell one Arab from the next makes it easy. In the words of a comedian whose name I can't remember right now, "My government isn't doing a good enough job of bullshitting me."