[rmnunez]

Though apparently Bush made many false claims regarding Saddam's Iraq, the isue ought to be whether he knew these statements were false at the time he uttered them.

If Bush was told there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and he had reason to believe this was true, there is nothing wrongful in his conveying that message and his concerns arising over this information to the public.

The suggestion has been made that Bush, knowing that what he said was false, deliberately repeated it and even had concocted evidence fabricated to support false claims when disputed. I'd like to see some proof of this.

Now it is known the claims of wmds were exagerated, no 'smoking gun' was found, but this is not the same as saying Bush knew there was nothing there and said there were all sorts of these weapons anyway.