The Greatest Single Crime of the Bush Administration?

Clearly there is a long list of evils that the Bush administration has perpetrated, but it still boggles my mind that they brainwashed the US troops who invaded Iraq to think that they were avenging 9/11. 90% of the troops who invaded Iraq thought that they were going into Iraq to kill the terrorists who hit us on 9/11.

Think of the audacity and pure evil it took for the Bush administration and Pentagon to drum the fictitious Iraq-9/11 connection into soldiers minds-- and then the pure havoc this brainwashing led to, as the US slaughtered and tortured innocent Iraqis -- crimes that were deeply immoral in themselves but also acts that completely counter-productive to the stated goal of establishment of order and the building of a democracy.

Of course, at this point, it is almost easy to forget the audacity and pure evil it took for the Bush administration to promote the fake threat of Iraq's WMD and thus to start an unprovoked war.

Clearly, if they were going to lie about something so big, what can we put past them?

UPDATE: I realize this post may sound somewhat naive, and possibly incongruous, coming from someone like me who promotes hard-core alternative views of 9/11. But sometimes I like to write posts from a more neutral perspective regarding 9/11, and then use that idea as a new lever on 9/11. Here the idea was to take the mainstream (and I believe true) view that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, and show how badly the Bush administration manipulated soldier's minds and to what devastating effect.

Part of the reason I do this, and this is perhaps a foolish reason, is to try to reach out to people like Pinch, Sword of Truth, Conspiracy Smasher and their brethren, and try to reach some common ground. But I guess there are a few problems with this approach:
1) these people are probably not going to rationally listen to anything I say
2) these people are completely set in their ideas and I am not going to change their mind on anything even if they listen to me rationally
3) these people are on such an opposite end of the spectrum that they probably think Saddam Hussein WAS behind 9/11 somehow and that he DID have hidden WMD.

Still, it is a challenge I can't resist-- to try to alter their thinking a little bit. And it also raises the fascinating question of how people get so set in their views and what can possibly get them to change their mind.

Personally, my thinking has certainly evolved over time, as I have looked at the evidence, and I still am open to new ideas.

Are people like Pinch, Sword of Truth, Conspiracy Smasher and their brethren open at ALL to new ideas about 9/11 and terrorism?

Or are they simply set in their views permanently-- maybe because of their brain chemistry or their upbringing?

There is also a temptation to write them off as paid shills. While I cannot rule this out, I tend not to think this is the case. Rather these people simply seem like die-hard fanatical believers of the official 9/11 story, and I insult their religion when I promote contrary ideas to the official story-- no matter how true these ideas may be.