Why wouldn’t they? Bush is a liberal like the rest of them; why wouldn’t he also cover up the evidence of WMDs like he did? (which popped up later in some cases, most notably the yellowcake they shipped to Canada.)
And here I thought that this would be consistent with the current narrative of Sunni extremists being the primary danger out of Islam, too. But that’s OK; there must be no danger from Islam at all, is that it.
???? Bush went to great trouble to launch the invasion of Iraq. His govt was badly embarrassed by the failure to find justifications, and put out many false tales, like the Niger uranium deal, and the weird "I was raped by Uday Hussein" torture stories of Jumana Hanna.
Surely, if they could have found real evidence, such as this torture centre, they would have displayed it, not covered it up.