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The Bush administration lied in terms of misrepresentation because there was no certainty about the WMD's still being there.

Maybe you missed the last half of the sentence. Don't see much wrong with it except maybe it doesn't go far enough. Bush's own Treasury Secretary has said that Bush's first order of business in 2001 as the new President was to invade Iraq and get Saddam and he told his staff to go get a good reason to do it.

I agree that Bush was looking for an excuse to go after Saddam because Iraq was the world's leading sponsor of terrorism at the time. The neo-cons thought this was a good idea for the larger war on terrorism (as did the rest of the so-called coalition of the willing).

But your phrase lied in terms of misrepresentation is flagrantly inappropriate. Everyone in the world intelligence community actually believed that Saddam had WMDs. And as I pointed out, we have pretty good evidence from the Senate testimony of the second-highest general in the Iraqi Air Force that Saddam did have WMDs but that he got the WMDs out of Iraq just before we invaded (fully preparing to get hit by chemical or biological weapons, by the way).

So, you really ought to leave off the completely unsupported accusation--one of the lying Dems' favorite talking points!-- against President Bush.

By the same token, Trump owes President Bush an apology. It will not be forthcoming from that Alinskyite, of course.