Hold on there, sparky
"If your contention is that everything that was presented in the intelligence presentations (at least the public ones) is a complete lie, as in made up out of whole cloth with fake photos and made-up intercepts, I've got nowhere else to go with this."
This is not my contention- but I am suspicious of that intelligence. Like the Niger Yellowcake, it may be that the gov't was presenting evidence that it knew was either suspect or not nearly as good as they made it out to be.