You seem to believe that the WMD story started with Bush. Don't you remember anything before 2001? The way Saddam would thwart the inspectors' attempts to investigate, the endless bombing of Iraqi facilities by Clinton for failing to live up to the ceasefire agreement, the countless intelligence reports coming from everywhere saying that Saddam was hiding equipment and stockpiles.

I don't think Bush lied about it. I think he simply acted on the same information Clinton refused to act on. When Saddam finally did allow the inspectors to go back in right before the war, the first thing they found was a factory producing illegal Al Samoud 2 missiles. For twelve years the inspectors missed this place....what else could they have missed? It was anyone's guess.

Al-Samoud 2 being test fired circa 2001 (Where were the inspectors?)

Al-Samoud,was also used by the Iraqi army during the invasion. The Headquarters of the 2nd Brigade, US 3rd Infantry Division, were struck by a missile of this kind on April 7, while the Brigade's main force was conducting an incursion 15 km north, well inside Baghdad. Three soldiers and two foreign reporters were killed in the blast. 14 other soldiers were injured, and 22 vehicles destroyed or seriously damaged, most of them Humvees.

Thanks Inspectors for not finding these sooner!