Duped by the neo-cons by Scott McConnell

No, this was a production that required a cast of hundreds and could not have occurred if the Bush administration had not been staffed with a coterie of individuals -- generally known as neo-conservatives -- who had an American invasion of Iraq at the top of their foreign policy agendas long before 9/11, since the mid 1990s, in fact.

The story of how they turned a terrorist attack on the US by one group into a rationale for an assault on an entirely different state will fascinate historians for many years to come.