Following the terrible atrocity of 11 September 2001, I can understand fully why, first of all, it would be necessary for America to retaliate and, second, to ensure that what happened should never recur. Part of the confusion in this debate, however, is that people are still not quite clear about the connection between Iraq and what happened on 11 September 2001, other than that Iraq may have the potential to inflict an atrocity of that kind and, also, that the country has an exceptionally brutal leadership that might undertake such an action. I have not seen the direct connection between the two, however.