>>The big issue I see is that the (correct) observations by the French and Ruskies (and Germans) were rubbished because they are the French and Ruskies- which was accepted by many as a pretext to ignore their contrary evidence.
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>Actually, the much bigger lie was that whether he had or didn't have WMD was any of our business in the first place.

At some point it was the business of the US. There's still that photo of Saddam and Rumsfeld shaking hands when these weapons were sold. But that was when he was still the good guy, because he was needed to fight Iran. It was assumed that he still had them.

>He couldn't possibly have threatened the US with them if he had them so it was a manufactured issue from the outset.

These days I'm frequently seeing statistics that in its history, the USA was not involved in any wars for whole 17 years.