Not to appear disrespectful but you seem to have been out of the country or even off the planet during the run up to the Iraq war.
In this thread were posted exact quotes from many high ranking Democrats who themselves depended on Intel from not only our CIA but the Intel agencies of ALL our allies including Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Israel and even the UN itself. All agreed Iraq not only had WMD but was continually working on them. Bush used THIS information and the Congress accepted it as did Bush as valid and a good reason to proceed with the invasion.
You say this was a hoax and maybe it was (perpetrated by Hussein) but that is not a lie, is it? Hussein may well have been lying about hias stash of WMD but EVERYONE BELIEVED IT TO BE TRUE and if you has looked up the real meaning of what constitutes a lie before you responded, you would know there must be KNOWLEDGE what was being said was false before it was said. Bush and all the others whose information he trusted actually BELIEVED Hussein had the WMD and so there was NO lie.
The WMD thing was an issue seriously questioned by some of his own intelligence people, but Bush chose to order invasion of Iraq. I think evidence of his convoluted motivation was the subsequent invention of the so-called “Bush Doctrine.”,p>