If it’s a “canard” that there were no wmds you’d better tell Bush and Cheney, because they both say the intelligence was bad and there were no wmds
The troops know better. The excuse for Bush keeping silent was that he didn’t want the Iranians and other enemies scrambling to find those WMBs. Israel found a bunch of them in Lebanon nd launched a couple of air strikes against what it thout were Iraqi WMD dumps that had been relocated to Syria.