Oh, by the way, we had WMDs all along, we just hid them. Suckers!
WMDs were a big topic at the time.
Here’s a little refresher based on the way I saw it. According to the Congressional Declaration to Use Force, there were three reasons to go to war. They were the same reasons as used in prior wars by Clinton and Bush. Clinton was authorized by Congress to pursue regime change in Iraq through the use of soft power - a declaration of war in my eyes.
WMDs was one, not the only, reason for US wars against Iraq.
Saddam was almost certainly pursuing A bomb development. Bush did not have enough translators, so he put all captured Iraqi documents on the internet. One was technical specs for an atomic bomb.
The New York Times bloodied Bush’s nose over that because they claimed it advanced the plans of other nations to develop the bomb by many years. Why did Saddam have the blueprints if he had no plan to develop a bomb? We found stockpiles of Uranium that were in excess of peaceful needs.
There was evidence that WMDs were moved out of the country by truck, ship and plane. Some to Russia and some to Syria. Later there were mysterious explosions in Syria that many considered to be an Israeli attack on materials originally in Iraq.
Bush showed no interest in defending himself or America on charges of there being no WMDs. All I can remember is his saying in response that the world was better off without Saddam. Probably true, but an inarticulate response to the charge.