No it didn’t, and Bush never used it as an excuse. He simply said that he went by what he had, which was actually sound information for what it was...the Dems insisted that there had to be WMD in there for us to go in (even though Saddam and that whole cluster were busy supporting even more radical forces, and we were originally going in because of that) and Saddam definitely had WMD. Thus the information had to be undermined, corrupted and cast into doubt.
But Bush never blamed the CIA for giving him bad information; not everything was completely accurate (because it never is), but they actually had the general gist of it until the Dems got into insane things like Valerie Plame, etc.
If Obama wanted “intelligence” about this, all he had to do was read the newspapers. And if he had wanted a special report, I’m sure he could have gotten one, except that he never goes to NSC meetings or even his daily briefings.
So he’s blaming this on the intelligence services. Cute. I wish one of them would post his foreign birth certificate in retaliation.
On this general topic, Obama has always held to the adage that-
“Nobody ever lost an election underestimating the intelligence of the American voter.”
It would be great to see the ‘chickens come home to roost’ by having someone in the Intelligence services call him on this outright insult ... In a match of wits with the experts, POSOTUS would get a rude awakening.
It has been posted right here on FR several times. The PTB decided to zot those posters.