The tragedy of 11 September 2001 shocked the world. We still suffer the after effects of the trauma of the incidents which took place that day, both because of their intrinsic gravity and the manner in which they were portrayed and brought into our living rooms. Having said that, we all accepted, or many people did, that weapons of mass destruction existed in Iraq. This comes back to what I said about deceiving ourselves, whatever about the protagonists deceiving the public. The fact remains there were no weapons of mass destruction.