"US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld wanted to bomb Iraq on the day after the September 11 2001 attacks on New York and Washington, a former White House terrorism advisor says ... "Rumsfeld was saying we needed to bomb Iraq," he said. "We all said, 'But no, no. Al-Qaeda is in Afghanistan,' and Rumsfeld said, 'There aren't any good targets in Afghanistan and there are lots of good targets in Iraq.' ... "I think they wanted to believe that there was a connection (between Iraq and al-Qaeda), but the CIA was sitting there, the FBI was sitting there, I was sitting there, saying, 'We've looked at this issue for years. For years we've looked and there's just no connection,'" said Clarke.