” However I still don’t find anywhere in the post a valid motivation for GW to lie in order to start a war.”
I don’t accuse Dubya of lying. If there was lying going on it was his advisers cherry picking the intel before passing it on to Bush, emphasizing only the case for WMDs and none of the evidence against it. What Bush was guilty of was poor judgment. He surrounded himself with a bunch of democracy project utopians who believed that the Middle East could be remade into western liberal democracies, ala Francis Fukuyama, and Iraq was to be their test case. Nation building on steroids. Some of Bush’s civilian appointees to the Pentagon likely were the problem.
Then you aren’t one of the new “Bush lied people died” Freepers. Unfortunately there have been many of those strange birds lately.