Sorry if this is old news for some, but the right keeps making the claim that "everybody thought Iraq had WMDs" or that "we didn't make a bad decision, our intelligence was faulty". Complete bullshit. It's right there in the
2002 NIE that was handed from the CIA to the president:
State/INR Alternative View of Iraq's Nuclear Program
The Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and Research (INR) believes Saddam continues to want nuclear weapons and that available evidence indicates that Baghdad is pursuing at least a limited effort to maintain and acquire nuclear weapon-related capabilities. The activities we have detected do not, however, add up to a compelling case that iraq is currently pursuing what INR would consider to be an integrated and comprehensive approach to acquire nuclear weapons...
Want more? ok:
In INR's viewIraq's efforts to acquire aluminum tubes is central to the argument that Baghdad is reconstitutiing its nuclear weapons program, but INR is not pursuaded that the tubes in question are intended for use as centrifuge rotors. INR accepts the judgement of technical experts at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) who have concluded that the tubes Iraq seeks to acquire are poorly suited for use in gas centrifuges to be used for uranium enrichment...
So not only the INR, but the DOE as well! Let's hear more:
the claims of Iraqi pursuit of natural uranium in Africa are, in INR's assesment, highly dubious
HIGHLY DUBIOUS. I guess the president read that and said, "DUBIOUS, that must mean it's super-extra true!!"