Every single serious person in this country thought Iraq had CW abd BW. Every. Single. One.
He used them on Iranians from 80-88, and on his own people in 88.
It turns out that the U.N. weapons inspectors found t them all (as I have said on here many times, they are damn good). But no one here - no one - thought that they got them all.
This was the case in 1998 during Desert Fox. It was the case in 2003.
Only the neocons surrounding Bush thought it was worth invading, that 9/11 somehow changed Iraqi rationality when it comes to wmd.
The war was NOT the result of an intelligence failure. It was a mistake of grand strategy. Full stop.
Blaimng the IC is the worst kind of partisan revisionism.
Read Woodward’s book on this era.