Why this sudden push to rewrite history about the Iraq war?

[Martin Eden]

75. Many people didn't think a president would lie so blatantly in the wake of a national tragedy

But Bush did, repeatedly. And remember, in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 Bush had a 90% approval rating. A large swath of the public trusted this president on national security.

Here's an article a two paragraphs from October 2003 that makes a very compelling case that Bush deliberately lied about Saddam's alleged ties to al Qaeda, and that he constantly conflated Iraq with 9/11 to form the public perception that the two were linked:
http://www.wnd.com/2003/10/21119/

“Used to be that we could think that you could contain a person like Saddam Hussein, that oceans would protect us from his type of terror,” he said at the same press conference. “Sept. 11 should say to the American people that we’re now a battlefield, that weapons of mass destruction in the hands of a terrorist organization could be deployed here at home.”

In that press conference, Bush mentioned the Sept. 11 attacks nine times, Saddam 40 times, and Osama zero, effectively morphing Osama into Saddam, as I pointed out in a column just before the war.