The build-up to the war took so long that Sadaam had plenty of time to hide WMD’s. Bush believed the intelligence that everyone else had, including the Clintons and the UN. Bush never defended himself, and on another front, turned the effort into “nation building”, and these were two main reasons that his Presidency was such a disaster that it led to Obama. Bob
Karl Rove advised Bush not to respond to the “Bush lied and troops died” attacks. Rove told Bush that it would not be “presidential” to respond. It was particularly bad when that beotch HIllary Clinton looked at the same intelligence that Bush looked at, voted to invade Iraq, and then said “Bush lied.” Bush just sat there like a dope and took it.