[WesternPacific]

..that the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq badly damaged the Bush administration's credibility and led to dwindling public support for the war.

This says more about the American public's intelligence, or lack of, then that of the former President's intelligence.

[Elsiejay]

I thought that I was paying close attention, but I did not ever hear Pres. Bush assert as incontrovertible fact that Saddam Hussein has a heap of functional and deployable WMD.
However, I do have a file of published statements of many high ranking members of The Congress and cabinet members, both Rep. & Dem. that did so state, or very nearly so, during late 1990s and early 2000s.
And, not to put too fine a point on the matter, but a single 20 liter carboy of certain chemical substances can constitute a WMD. I seem to recall that some such discovery occurred in Iraq.

[FreedomPoster]

Don’t forget the unrelenting media campaign. It is tough for many to get beyond that.