It is funny, considering that Dubya organized the Iraq Survey Group and that he publicly agrees with their findings. I’d like to see how the true believers explain that away.
Stop It, Liberals: Bush Didn't Lie About Iraq Having WMDs1.) Read the 2002 National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq's W.M.D programs. "Baghdad has chemical and biological weapons as well as missiles with ranges in excess of UN restrictions; if left unchecked, it probably will have a nuclear weapon during this decade," the report reads. The report goes on to say it has "high confidence" that "Iraq possesses proscribed chemical and biological weapons and missiles" and "Iraq could make a nuclear weapon in months to a year once it acquires sufficient weapons-grad fissile material."
2.) Read Bob Woodard's account of then-CIA director's George Tenet's briefing of the George W. Bush on the eve of the Iraq war. According to the Washington Post journalist, Tenet told Bush that it was a "slam dunk case" that Iraq had W.M.D.s. Tenet later said he was taken out of context, but that doesn't seem to be the case and, in any event, Tenet doesn't deny he was fundamentally confident that Iraq possessed W.M.D.s.
3.) General Tommy Franks, who led the invasion of Iraq in 2003, writes in his book that he was not only told by Egyptian and Jordanian leaders that Iraq possessed W.M.D.s, he was also told that Saddam would use them against invading American troops. 4.) Former CIA agent Kenneth Pollock has noted that the world's most vaunted intelligence agencies, including some of those who opposed the war in Iraq, all believed Saddam Hussein possessed W.M.D.s. These include the intelligence agencies of Germany, Israel, Russia, Britain, China and France.
5.) As President Obama contemplated whether to authorize the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, he was told by CIA Deputy Director Mike Morell that the evidence indicating that Iraq had W.M.D.s before the Iraq war was "much stronger" than the evidence that bin Laden was living in the Abbottabad compound. "And I’m telling you, the case for W.M.D. wasn’t just stronger—it was much stronger," he told the president.