Yeah Bush was a pretty big chump. And its hard to imagine how we've been completely unable to catch a guy who's 7 ft tall and attached to a dialysis machine. But the way I see it, finding him a slippery fish to catch, Bush realized the American public was just as willing to get Saddam as a consolation prize so he went with it. They are absolutely unrelated, but in the minds of 64% of the US population, catching Saddam was "doing something about 9/11"