I suppose that shows you the limits of the tacit agreements, then. But I thought part of the shenanigans in the UN security council was about the veracity of the WMD threat. Wasn't Powell criticized because his assessment was a rip-off from a 1990 British term paper, and also because some of the pictures of mobile labs he showed were more than ten years old ? I'll have to look it up.
They said that, but again, it's impossible to spin away the fact that EVERY intel service on the planet thought (and many still think) Saddam had WMDs. When this comes from sources as varied and at odds as Iran and Israel, there is some truth there.