You forget the point though that not just Bush, but the people he surrounds himself with, had themselves so convinced that Iraq was involved in 9/11 and were planning a large scale attack against the US (oh, and all that black gold stuff too) that they sold the Iraq resolution to the House and Congress as a dire threat under false pretenses. No doubt there are plenty to blame for not using their checks and balances as they should have, but to think the current administration has nothing to do with the quagmire(s) we're in now is just as clueless.