>>1410513He was given non-actionable intelligence on the POSSIBILITY of WMD production. He had his staff say it was a "certainty" and that the case was a "slam dunk." We were told we needed to take immediate action.
They used shitty, vaguely worded intelligence reports from unreliable sources and made it sound like it was concrete evidence. They also said that we needed to take action immediately, lest we be attacked.
Maybe "lie" isn't the exact word, but it is (at the very least) appropriate.