The only lie that W told then was that Islam was or is a “religion of peace”. Those who think that Bin Laden and Al Qaeda were the only threat/perps of 9/11, just haven’t been paying attention. There is a world of Islamic terror/totalitarianism out there, and Bush sought to take out its heart. He tried, and missed. There are plenty more where Saddam and Osama came from, and they are multiplying as we argue about this nonsense.
As it turned out, not even a trace of chemical WMD’s were found in Iraq. So we will never know if Bush-43 lied or not, because he may have received faulty information.
Aside from that, my real problem with the Bush regime is total stupidity in reading the situation in middle-east. Bush was under the delusion than if Saddam was toppled, he could transform Iraq into a democracy like India, the worlds largest democracy and stable for 70 years. Bush failed to understand the difference between Muslim Arabs and Hindu majority India.
Once the dictator was toppled, a chain reaction of catastrophe’s occurred. Only way to hold Iraq together was to station 50,000-100,000 American troops for decades, subject to constant suicide bombers. American public was sick of Iraq war casualties.
So now we have a fragmented Iraq, under control of Iran, Yemen is chaos, Libya is chaos, Syria is chaos, Egypt is on the brink, ISIS is formed and is the richest terror group in history of world with captured Iraqi oil.