Didn’t Iraq’s leader threaten W’s pappy. I heard some buzz about that in addition to invading Iraq. In truth, I never understood why we didn’t invade Saudi Arabia, all the terrorists were from there. Iraq was so random.
Iraq was behind a lot of terrorism. For example Saddam paid the family of all suicide bombers who murdered in Israel. Something like $25K apiece. There is a lot more. There was nothing “random” about attacking Iraq.
It’s true that the 9/11 hijackers were recruited from Saudi Arabia. But they could have been recruited from Britain, France, or even the US.