The group that was in Iraq that, in 2004 (AFTER the US invasion, declared allegiance to Osama bin-Laden had no ties to the WTC attacks."Mr Bush has never directly accused the former Iraqi leader of having a hand in the attacks on New York and Washington"
it really doesn't matter if he associates them. It really does not. Al-Qaeda was in Iraq, they were the terrorist group that did the 9/11 attacks. They were in Iraq, and we were fighting them there. This does not mean that Saddam was part of it.