Did Bush lie about WMD in Iraq?

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I honestly do not know if he lied about WMDs in Iraq. The impression I have right now is that Saddam Hussein was bluffing about a nuclear program as a posture mostly to toy with the minds of people over in the government of Iraq's primary rival in the region, Iran, or as maybe a miscalculated move of some other sort suiting the perceived best interests of Iraqi national security. It is also possible the U.S. simply screwed up on a massive scale on the intelligence front and passed it on to leaders.

One mistake President Bush definitely made was running his administration in an authoritarian fashion starting awhile after the war in Afghanistan got underway. Not enough time was set aside to meet with experts and other professionals within government to talk things through, scrutinize evidence, come up with ideas, and get behind a rational plan together. A small number of like-minded folks in the White House instead shut out dissenting opinions even within their own administration. I suspect as soon as the President was convinced, for whatever reason, to go on the war march there was no persuading him or his closest allies to do otherwise.

Until shown otherwise I'll just trust my hunch that the previous administration serves as an example of poor methods in public administration rather than one of deliberate, flagrant corruption in government.