He was using exactly the same method to justify the invasion of Iraq. Remember Hans Blix and the UN Weapons Inspectors ? They said there wasn't any WMD, Bush and Cheney ordered them out and ordered the troops into Iraq on the word of Chalabi (a known cheat and liar) and his crooked cousin who said there was. And after the death of 200,000 or so iraqi civilians, guess what - there wasn't any WMD. Why does anybody think they were telling the truth about New York ?