Originally, George Bush justified his war in Iraq with numerous lies. He and his advisors' mis- statements included the following: "Imminent threat." "Produced thousands of tons of chemical agents." "Fear a Mushroom cloud." "We found the weapons of mass destruction." "Saddam Hussein had sought uranium in Africa." "Iraq terrorist ties." When these lies were exposed, George Bush switched to a 'so what?' stance and this time justified his war by declaring that "the world is a better place without Saddam Hussein". He blamed faulty intelligence, but it was intelligence he purposely initiated himself. He enlisted CIA head George Tenet to conjure up a bogus National Intelligence Estimate that corroborated the administration's line. And, he installed the Office of Special Plans to cherry-pick and embellish findings supportive of war in Iraq while debunking whatever that wasn't. This group resorted to taking info out of context and juxtaposing unrelated data. Meanwhile, the real intelligence community including the CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and the president's own Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board didn't verify the Bush lies and repeatedly warned that the WMD case was weak. And, the Army War College found the war 'unnecessary' as did the outcome of the U.N. Inspections in Iraq.

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