But the report revealed in new detail how the Bush administration set its eyes on Iraq within hours of the 9/11 attacks and commission raised questions about how successful Bush’s so-called war on terrorism has been.

By 2:40 P.M. on Sept. 11 — just six hours after the first tower was hit — Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Richard B. Myers that his instinct was to hit Saddam Hussein at the same time as Osama bin Laden.

However the commission found Iraq and Al Qaeda had no “collaborative operational relationship.”

The report doesn’t outright criticize the Bush administration for attacking Iraq last year but it warned that Iraq could now become a “breeding grounds for attacks against Americans at home.”