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Originally posted by HarmlessRabbit
Again, I'm talking about the specific claim about the trailers. Of course Iraq had WMD's once, they used them. But, the Bush Administration consistently pumped up the threat that Iraq posed, including the ridiculous claim that Iraq had an active nuclear weapons program. The Bush Administration also consistently linked Iraq with 9/11, when no such link existed.
This weapons trailer issue is just one example.
If you'd prefer to not call it "lying" and instead call it "criminal negligence" or "crimes of omission" or "a watergate-level campaign of deception," I'm fine with all those terms too. We don't have to get all caught up in this "lying" term. 
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It is not the term "lying" or the other terms you put forth, it is the intent of deception that I disagree with and the point of my post.
In otherwords, the US intelligence community (under Democrats and Republicans) made many mistakes which resulted in their drawing erroneous conclusions which were passed on to the politicians (Democrat and Republican) above them.
Honestly, I see this continual charge of "lying" as ignoring of these basic facts.