Mitt Romney actually comes up with a genius idea

[Tino]

How about you? Are you ready to admit that Bush lied us into the war in Iraq? That his wild claims of coming mushroom clouds and hidden WMD were not even sort of true?

I think you're being intellectually dishonest here, and here's why:

1. I'm sure you know the difference between being wrong/in error and lying. I've seen no evidence he knowingly lied about WMD in Iraq as you claim.

2. I'm sure you know that Bush was not alone in believing that Iraq had and was hiding an advanced WMD program. You must know that virtually all of our senior national security leaders cited the same information as fact - President Clinton and Senator Hillary Clinton to name two. They are on public record as saying so. And we learned after the war that Saddam Hussein was deliberately trying to create the impression that he had such a program. So again, where's the lie when prior administrations and political adversaries were making the same claims about Iraq's development of WMD?

3. I'm sure you know that WMD is a broad term, which includes chemical weapons, and that it's a fact that Hussein used chemical WMD, which obviously means he had WMD.

I would like you to point me to where Bush linked Al Qeda to the reason to invade Iraq. I know that's how his naysayers like to spin it, but what I recall, and the speeches of his that I've re-read, don't mention Al Qeda as a reason. Here for example is the UN speech where it's clear that the rationale is to keep advanced WMD from falling into the hands of terror groups. http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-201_162-521781.html