I suspect the Obamans orchestrated the WMD story to justify no boots on the ground. Just wouldn’t be prudent to risk our troops like that (sending them to surely get Ebola is different...).
I think Bush did exaggerate WMD because he did not want to present the geopolitical case for war against Saddam, for three reasons:
1) Public too ignorant to follow.
2) Fear motivates more readily than prudence. Nowhere is this more true than in Congress.
3) The neocon’s geopolitical case was weak and based on some loopy assumptions. Many people would question why it was that freedom and democracy would fill the void and spread across the middle east; why democracy is an Islamic sea of rival sects wouldn’t lead to theocracies and failed states; who would contain Iran; why wouldn’t Iraq spin into warring factions; etc.
None of this is to say that WMD was not present. But it was not the eminent threat Saddam wanted others, like Mosni Mubarak, to think, or at least say, it was.
Was ruminating on the biggest lies for all time.
1.) There is no God.
2.) There is a God, but He does not care about us.
3.) Jesus Christ is not who He claimed to be, not God’s Son.