Axiom's End (Noumena, #1)

by Lindsay Ellis

but I am horrified at how quickly and easily the whole country has fallen for the line that Iraq is to blame for terrorist attacks they had nothing to do with, just so the U.S. will have someone to invade. That the Patriot Act passes, and hardly anyone bats an eye. These people who insist that there is evidence of WMDs in Iraq are just as bad as the people insisting Bush did 9/11—the only difference, of course, are that the former are in power.