The same old lies, regurgitated. From ABC’s The Note:

Barbara Walters: This was our main reason for going in. So now when we read, “Okay, the search is over,” what do you feel?

President Bush: Well, like you, I felt like we’d find weapons of mass destruction. Or like many, many here in the United States, many around the world, the United Nations thought he had weapons of mass destruction, and so therefore, one, we need to find out what went wrong in the intelligence gathering.

I’ve already thoroughly debunked the lie about “the United Nations thought he had weapons of mass destruction” in this post. And the repeated statement that somehow the intelligence was at fault is just as much a lie. The Niger story, the “sixteen words” is evidence of that: our own intelligence was telling the White House that the Niger story about Saddam trying to buy uranium was false, so Bush instead turned to foreign intelligence sources and used them over the advice of his own intelligence people. As to the people who believed there were WMD, it must be pointed out that many did not, and those who did believed largely because Bush convinced them–circular evidence to justify that he believed there were WMD. The Bush administration was clearly cherry-picking evidence and then exaggerating what they had selected to such a degree that anyone who thinks it was the fault of the intelligence community is either ignorant of the facts or is in an extreme state of denial.