Lucian Bernard, the father of Mike Bernard who is fighting in Iraq, asks President George Bush the tough question: "For the last three years, your administration has been telling us that bin Laden and the people who were responsible for attacking us have been holed up in the mountains between Pakistan and Afghanistan. So why did you deploy 140,000 troops a thousand miles away in Iraq?" In plain language, Bush pulled a "bait and switch," using the fear of 9/11 to start a war against Iraq, a nation we now know had no weapons of mass destruction, no ties to 9/11 terrorists, and posed no threat to nearby nations or to the U.S.

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